The Pacific Northwest Tree Octopus is not officially on the endangered species lists, but it is at critically low levels for breeding requirements. Whereas in past decades sightings of the tree octopus were common among campers and outdoorsmen, these days you will be lucky if you see one. Something needs to be done, and I think you'll agree that more people need to be made aware of the plight of the tree octopus. more inside

Aerial Photographs of Mexico City seen @ Cynical-C Blog

The Jail Drawings of Luis Quintanilla - Quintanilla was a Spanish artist who started out as a Cubist then moved into other genres to become a noted draftsman and muralist. Drawn into political activism during the Spanish Civil War, Quintanilla was arrested for being a member of the Revolutionary Committee which intended to oust the Spanish government. He was slammed in jail where he made a series of evocative and extraordinary drawings. Here are some of them.

The iArm - when cybernetic body parts become available - and they will - if they become more efficient than the organic parts they replace - and they will - would you 'upgrade' a bit of yourself? If so, which bit? Introducing the new iArm. The world's fastest, most powerful body upgrade. MOVIE Requires QUICKTIME Seen at The Presurfer

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Robert Anton Wilson, the iconoclastic genius behind the famed 'Illuminatus! Trilogy,' has a few thousand things he'd like to teach you. more inside

Kit Fisto, 6'1'', 175lb HAS MEAT DREADLOCKS Print it out, stick it everywhere, make sure they all know. more inside

Camilla Queen - a flash ode to Camilla, Prince Charles' partner, set to the tune Killer Queen by Queen, but with new lyrics. I thought it was merely amusing until the rats in Brian May wigs came on playing kazoos for the solo break. Then I fell out of the chair laughing. Some naughty words - no nudity but sexual references. Requires FLASH more inside

Electric Stuff, antique glass thingies, vunderbar old ads for electronic bits, Nixie tubes, dekatrons, counting tubes and dangerous home-brew high-voltage devices.

How to Reinstall Windows Without Losing Your Data and How to Reinstall Windows XP Without Having to Reactivate With Microsoft.

Free Vista Icons - download the icon sets from Microsoft Windows Vista (previously Longhorn), if you're like me and like to play with icons & microangelo etc. Seen at the days start here

Curious George: It's raining, it's pouring, the old man is snoring, he bumped his head and went to bed and couldn't get up in the morning. Was the old man dead? Did he, like, die? Did bumping his head cause some kind of lesion? Is that why he couldn't get up in the morning?

The origin of mass may not be in the postulated existance of the Higgs boson, a top quark condensate or any other alternate model. Two researchers suggest a theory pertaining to inertial mass can been extended to include gravitational mass, involving the non-relativistic zero-point field. more inside

Witchfinders - An examination of the legends surrounding Matthew Hopkins' vicious campaign against witches during the English Civil War era. From Fortean Times.

20 Mishaps That Might Have Started Accidental Nuclear War - 9 of them being from the Cuban Missle Crisis. Note that these are false alarms and do not include such frighteners as the Arkhipov incident, and are only the known ones, so we don't really know how many times we've been on the brink for other, perhaps as yet undisclosed events. more inside

Alien Abduction - it's bullshit, isn't it? These weird aliens only ever take backwoods rednecks and loony writers. Oh, except for Nobel winner Dr Kary Mullis and the talking raccoon. more inside

Citizenspook on TreasonGate: 'The controlling law for Treasongate has been greatly ignored by the main stream media and the blogosphere. This article seeks to clarify the controlling law... The complicated "Intelligence Identities Protection Act" of 1982 which has been exclusively discussed by the media is not controlling. Rove and company may be guilty of violating that act, but prior United States Code statutory law and Federal case law, specifically 18 USC 793 as interpreted by United States v. Morison (and related cases) has been breached and should lead to convictions under the facts known to the public at large. 18 USC 793 provides for a maximum of ten years in prison to those convicted under this statute.' more inside

How to make an Ocarina from card - You will need a sheet of card, a pair of scissors, craft knife or such-like, glue, straight edge or steel ruler, something to cut on, and opposable thumbs. Then you can blow on it and go blooble bloople oopleoooh etc, and annoy everyone for hours on end.

Ogias and the Dragon he Slew - From the Manichean version of the Book of the Giants, a largely fragmentary book that has been omitted from all editions of the Old Testament Pseudepigrapha. Via Dr Cathey's Blog more inside

Jihadi's guide to sneaking into Iraq - a new guide posted on the net tells would-be terrorists the best way into the Land of Two Rivers. It establishes much of the truth of strategies used by jihadis in their mission to make Iraq a never-ending war for the US military and Iraqi civilians. "Indeed, dozens of the suicide bombers have been identified as having come from foreign countries -- most of them from Kuwait, Saudi Arabia, Jordan and Syria -- and the number of foreign fighters in Iraq may number in the thousands." Via Robot Wisdom