Barbara Bush Donates to Katrina Fund Lovely. She also specifies that the "undisclosed amount" must go to education. Spiffy. Specifically, to her son Neil's company. Oh. more inside

Texas Police Go Into 36 Bars , Arrest Patrons For Being Drunk. more inside

Third Warniversary Summary: American Military Casualties: 2,317. American Wounded: 17,004. Iraqi Civilian Casualties: 37,795 (estimated). Total Cost of the War: $320 billion - NOT! Number of WMD Found: 0. Number of Administration Officials Held Accountable for Iraq Debacle: Zero. more inside

A Photographer and his Dog. One day eight years ago, a young landscape photographer from Vienna was visiting a farm near Verona, Italy, when he learned about a spotted puppy with black ears that no one wanted. The photographer, Toni Anzenberger, adopted the dog and named him Pecorino, thinking it meant "little sheep" in Italian. Wonderful story, excellent dog. Home site. more inside

Vote With Your Money BuyBlue.org tracks what companies give to what U.S. elected officials. Interesting stuff. Don't mention the Blue Pages book to them though, they're a little touchy about it more inside

Democrats Suck more inside

The Porn Star and Bush Okay but if you're going to lift from Fark, it would have to be something like this. You can't make that up. Well, you can, but it's not as funny if you do.

Senator Rick Santorum you know from his comments on gay incest (or something) but you also know him to be a self-confessed point man on lobbying reform. Which is why a local investigation was surprised to find his charity being rife with lobby money. more inside

3.6 billion degrees Fahrenheit. In a lab. (Celcius converter says that's 20 billion degrees? That can't be right. Wacky metrics.) The sun is 15 million Kelvin, this is about 2 Berzillion Kelvin. Oy! That's hot. How'd they do it? more inside

Fascism Checklist See how many apply to your country. Discuss. No, no I mean in the thread. Discuss it in the thread here. Also, there are some Boob videos. Probably SFW, but I'm going to mark them as NSFW just in case more inside

Friday Flash Fun - Splash Back Drop the drips on the dots and splash lots of splots across game tops. totally not ripped off from MeFi more inside

Fool Your Eyes A collection of (mostly) interesting optical illusions. Cue theremin!

This just in - Bush is a liberal! Yes, just in time to salute the flaming wreckage of the worst administration in American history as it plummets to earth like so much half-chewed fish, the new right-wing meme: Bush is actually a liberal! more inside

The Einstein Show Visual aid for the genius monkey. Happy Friday! stolen from MeFi

Zen Koans These koans, or parables, were translated into English from a book written late in the thirteenth century by the Japanese Zen teacher Muju (the "non-dweller"), and from anecdotes of Zen monks. Good stuff, unless you know everything already. more inside

Ron DeCorte's Notebook I don't wear a watch. Don't even like 'em really. This site is all about watches and is fantastically amazing. Get yer geek on. I may or may not have gotten this through MeFi. Ain't tellin'.

BASS! How low can you go?! A collection of nifty cool sexy cutie weird & wild basses. Y'all bladder rumblers get some. via some place more inside

A Map of Slave-Labor Products Click on a product to learn more about its connections to slave labor. Product information will open in a popup window. Didn't know it was still going on in the US. via memepool

Oil Execs Formed US Energy Policy , something that was long suspected and denied (but not under oath). In fact, the Oil Cartels are doing a heckuva job, with Exxon in particular making the highest record profits of any company ever in the history of the world. The POTUS is concerned however, saying "Here we have a serious problem: America is addicted to oil" but don't worry. He'll give them 7 Billion to think about what they've done. more inside

Valentine's Day Fun Pak So I didn't have a coherent FPP, but for Valentine's Day You could make a Candy heart, you could Keep the shagging alive or just check out this nifty huge, lily-scented worm. Baby.