Ever consider making your own drinking horn? Yes, you too can make your own drinking horn. There are quite a few different sites out there. If you're not up to the task, you can always buy a horn that's allready been crafted. For not much more depending on the merchant. I found an old horn in my garage (came with the house) and fashioned it into a rather heroic drinking horn. All it takes is a horn, a few simple materials, and a wee bit of patience.

RNA Based Life Forms. Carl Zimmer's got an article up on creating RNA based life forms. Bizarro world is that much closer.

Contemporary graphic design meets porn. Obviously NSFW. more inside

If Hackers the movie was written by real hackers. An oldie but goodie.

The Best Remix I've Yet Heard. Of Jay-Z's "Black Album". This one is mixed with Pavement's Slanted and Enchanted. There's a sample MP3 on the site as well as bit torrent links for various editions of the full album.

Mommy? Why's Bjork going crazy? [MPG link].

Man Bites Dog. Story in full: Dog bites man. Man bites dog. Dog dies because man bites dog to death.

Carl Zimmer's Weblog. I just found this little gem. A great little science blog by Carl Zimmer. You may remember Zimmer who authored this article which had appeared on MeFi a while ago.

Casual, 'rare', photos of Vladimir Putin. He may be sweet around his kids but he's still a heartless bastard.

The Misadjudication of Dr. Butler. Dr. Dick Butler is now serving 2 years in prison as a scapegoat. Be angry and afraid. The prosecutors are comming.

The definitive source for Visual, Concrete + Sound Poetry. Ubuweb, explore and stuff.

Ishkur's amazing electronic music guide. [via memepool]

Snotty indian tech support? They're probably racist says India's economic times. Casteless Americans don't seem to engender much love in some of these people. More forward thinking Indians are getting over this however. The times are a changing, albeit slowly. My only question is WWJD?

It appears that dodgeball is the latest hip thing. Why, even Ben Afflec is getting in on it. When will you?

The Audio recordings of the chilling testimony of Tiger Force Veterans. Tiger Force, an Elite unit from the Vietnam War engaged in at least twentyone war crimes over seven months in 1967. [Via The Toledo Blade via Harpers' Magazine (print edition).

God Bless America! Yahweh that is. Another 10 commandments monument is goin up! This one has a bill of rights on the other side too! Who's for putting up a Geneva Convention or Universal Declaration of Human Rights tablet? Nahhhhhhh.

Hwa Rang Do. Ahh, the martial art of Hwa Rang Do. Check out these uber cool video clips of extreme martial arts action and retro cool.

A History of The Lobotomy. "He anesthetized them with three rapid bursts of electric shock. He then drew the upper eyelid away from the eyeball, exposing the tear duct. The sharp point of the ice pick was placed in this, and then, as Freeman put it, "a light tap with a hammer is usually all that is needed to drive the point through the orbital plate". The ice pick was plunged into the brain. When it was about two inches inside, Freeman would pull the ice pick about 30 degrees backward, as far as he could without cracking the skull, and then move it up and down in another 20 degree arc, in order to cut the nerves at the base of the frontal lobes." An infamous chapter in medical history. [via Fark]

Who knew that Interpol were such good photographers? Interpol, that most amazingly amazing band has a catalog of their photos online which impress immensely. Not as good as their music to be sure, but still a great set.

Ben Franklin on the United States constitution. "In these sentiments, Sir, I agree to this Constitution with all its faults, if they are such; because I think a general Government necessary for us, and there is no form of Government but what may be a blessing to the people if well administered, and believe farther that this is likely to be well administered for a course of years, and can only end in Despotism, as other forms have done before it, when the people shall become so corrupted as to need despotic Government, being incapable of any other. -- Ben Franklin Thanks to Gore Vidal for using this quote in his excellent new book from which I discovered the above quote.