Lamilite neutralizes water! Outdoors gear peddler and crazy-ass objectivist Jerry Wigutow wades chestdeep into the crazy with his most recent newsletter. It's nothing new. more inside

The site Quick Muse done lit the fuse. It's flexy, it's crammin', it's elision, it's punctuation and hoo diggity. That's fleet erudition to me. Via. (Also, no apologies to Steven Tyler.)

Finally, the internet on a disk. Odd ramblings on web stuff and other random topics: "Why didn't God create little green mammals?", "Another Product that Doesn't Exist Yet, but Would be a Natural...", and my personal favorite, "You Can't Take It With You. com...". more inside

How to Save Electricity, by Michael Bluejay. Terrifically useful information in an excruciating drink-from-the-firehose format. Check out the rest of the site for similarly interesting and well-informed writing packed into sprawling HTML table-based eyesores.

Music-Map: The tourist map of music Pretty mainstream (no "The Harvey Girls", no "Teriyakis"), but fun to fiddle around with.

The website SourceWatch contains editable write-ups on over 200 industry-funded organizations and a helluva lot more. Here's its list of lists.

Animal Diversity Web is an online database of various biological topics at the University of Michigan. Animal Diversity Web has: * Thousands of species accounts about individual animal species. These may include text, pictures of living animals, photographs and movies of specimens, and/or recordings of sounds. Students write the text of these accounts and we cannot guarantee their accuracy. * Descriptions of levels of organization above the species level, especially phyla, classes, and in some cases, orders and families. Hundreds of hyperlinked pages and images illustrate the traits and general biology of these groups. Professional biologists prepare this part. Quite educational, but that's beside the point. The point is spinnin' frickin' skulls [QTVR] people!

OCLC's Open WorldCat is an interesting new way to search for library materials, using the Google, Google Scholar and Yahoo! search engines. The interface still needs some tweaking, but the service itself looks pretty promising.

MST3Kinfo is a pretty damned good spot to ease your MST3K news joneses, if you're still having them. Episode listings, tape/DVD trading and regular updates pertaining to the myriad numbnuts who starred and otherwise participated in the MSTied movies. more inside

Clinton, Montana's Testicle Festival is but one of many organ-eating-focused events.

Nuclear Weapon Effects Calculator Try [FAS's] NEW Bomb-A-City Calculator. Pick an American city. Pick the size of the bomb you wish to detonate virtually (1 kt to 4 MT). Choose your method of delivery (aircraft or automobile/suitcase). Then see the radius within which most buildings would be destroyed. Then, measure the potential fallout. Both tools have handy keys at the bottom. Don't get caught in the blue! more inside

Richard Dawkins multimedia links This is a collection of links to video and audio files of Richard Dawkins weighing in on a variety of topics, including science, religion, revenge, and Douglas Adams. The same site has links for James Randi, Michael Shermer, Steven Pinker and a couple other skeptics. (MP3s, RealPlayer files, QT movies)

Online Archive of American Folk Medicine A searchable archive of folk medicine remedies. The entries are spare-looking, but the archive as a whole is a nice indicator of how far medical treatment has come. My personal favorites.

On NSA Spying: A Letter to Congress Fifteen constitutional scholars and former government officials express their concerns regarding the administration's warrantless electronic surveillance program. Be warned, this is a long article. (Short version: they're against it.)

The Microbial Rosetta Stone Database An interesting visualization of the range of things that can make you sick. From the front page: The Microbial Rosetta Stone (MRS) is a database that relates microorganism names, taxonomic classifications, diseases, and scientific literature for the most important human, animal and plant microbial pathogens, with linkage to public genomic sequence databases. more inside

Would you have dropped the bomb? With each passing decade, the anniversary of the atomic bombings provokes a debate over whether the United States made the right choice. But this crucial question is almost always considered in the abstract. A far more difficult task is to assume personal responsibility. With that in mind, the Bulletin sought out noteworthy thinkers with backgrounds in history, theology, physics, and diplomacy and posed a single, provocative question: "If the decision had been yours alone to make, would you have dropped the bomb?" more inside

The Unofficial Stephen Jay Gould Archive A collection of articles, books and other writings by Stephen Jay Gould (and a few others). Mostly biology, but there are some history of science, religion/science, and other topical essays. The bibliography alone is astonishing. (Couldn't find full-text stuff on baseball, though.)

The First Earth Battalion Operations Manual The earth battalion declares its primary allegiance to people and planet. You can become a part of that allegiance right where you are simply by allowing the exquisite human being inside to come out. When it's out... help others to come out and then work together cooperatively to stay our -- building the paradise that is possible when we cooperate with each other and our mother the earth. Riiiiiiight. more inside

The Wittenham Hill Cider Page Andrew Lea really knows a lot about fermenting apples. If you're at all interested in makin' cider, give this page a look. more inside

Yo, Joe! Formerly Quickkick Theatre, the Joe Guide is an obsessively detailed guide to the G.I. Joe comic book and cartoon series.