Spray-on Dress. Warning: hard nipples as seen thru clingy fabric.

How To Be A Spiritual Atheist. Can it be done? Sort of related - Ignosticism, something new to me, at least.

William Shakespeare’s Sonnet 18: 'Shall I Compare Thee to a Summer's Day?' converted to ActionScript 2.0 syntax.

Futurama is going to be renewed for television with 26 episodes. According to Billy West.

Masses of Tutorials 26 on PaintShop Pro, 2330 Photoshop, 68 CSS, 922 Flash.. gosh, just myriads.

Out With The Old Drunk, In With The New 'Ask yourself: how many times do I, as a grownup, show up for work after a vacation with a bunch of cuts and bruises on my head? Ask yourself: how many of my friends regularly show up, after a vacation, with lacerations and contusions on their face?' more inside

The 10 Commandments of the Ethical Atheist via Bifurcated Rivets

The time has come to abandon Christianity. the intent of this site is not to spread hatred for those who believe in Jesus as God - the intent of this site is to advance the wellness of individuals and society as a whole... Welcome to undoJesus.org

The Ten Movies Steven Spielberg Has Yet To Make Imagine for a second it is Opposite Day. Imagine we're in some kind of Twilight Zone parallel universe in which Hollywood gives Arabs and Muslims a fair shake. What kind of movies about the Middle East would we then be chomping Goobers, Junior Mints, and popcorn to at the local twenty screen multiplex?

Scientists find 'mass dodo grave' Scientists have discovered the "beautifully preserved" bones of about 20 dodos at a dig site in Mauritius. No complete Dodo skeleton has ever been found in Mauritius and no full set of bones currently exists in collections, so this is exciting for researchers and people who like Dodos.

Microsoft Buys Out Opera - could this be true? More clues here?

OpenOffice2 is out

Liam's Pictures from Old Books Over 680 scanned images, engravings and pictures from old books, all public domain, most with multiple high-resolution versions.

Lincoln: Hypocrite or Statesman? an essay by Dinesh D'Souza from the April 2005 edition of American History magazine.

The Huns & the Fall of the Roman Empire 'In 1984 a German scholar worked out that 210 reasons had been advocated for the fall of the Roman empire. Peter Jones enjoys a "fine narrative history" that concentrates on just one.' The Huns. Reviews of The Fall of the Roman Empire by Peter Heather and The Fall of Rome and the End of Civilization by Bryan Ward-Perkins, from the Telegraph.

The Seven Basic Plots Christopher Booker (ironic name), founding editor of Private Eye, writes a tome that espouses the concept of finite archetypal stories that are remixed and repackaged in human myth to become the blueprint for all stories - similar to the concepts of Joseph Campbell. "The Seven Basic Plots: Why We Tell Stories." So is that all there is? Not really, says Denis Dutton.

"My chief aim in life is to capture some of these eels." Off the coast of Samoa, researchers find hundreds of magical eels squiggling around a toxic and active underwater volcano and nobody knows what their names are. In Australia, some other researchers find zillions of ugly spider crabs having an orgy. Are these events linked? No. Probably not.

Beautiful Roman Glassware in exhibition giving a good idea of sophistication of design, and evoking a picture of use in daily Roman life. Image galleries one, two, three and four. Quite nice, I thought.

Tara may be Scarred Teamhair (pr. Tara) is an hour's drive northwest of Dublin. It was the seat of god-kings and remains the site of legend. The screaming Stone of Destiny still lies there. According to Irish Myth, heroes have reigned there since the 'first invasion'. Now it faces a grave threat. The bulldozer. more inside

Weird John Brown - vindicated by history, this abolitionist visionary was a man who innately understood feminism long before its time, a respected friend of native Americans and an eloquent speaker, but also man of violence who drew no distinction between the innocent and guilty in 'a society determined to perpetuate an evil'. A new biography restores Brown’s centrality to the Civil War.