Bullet proof corsets.

A perky bit of Flash fun - short, straight forward puzzler.

AND she's been photoshopped. via

Why Archie didn't to propose to Betty.

Sulphur mining in Indonesia. Hot volcanic gases saturated with elemental sulphur are piped down the side of the volcano before spilling molten sulphur to cool then chipped into pieces and hauled down the mountain. more inside

Robin Hood eat your heart out. Actually that's unfair to Mr R.H. - but this is a pretty cool accident.

20 Bookcases. I love the rafter bookcase.

What kind of battery should you wish for? The boring old matter anti-matter E equals M C squared kind? OR the pulling atoms apart kind?

A collection of medical instruments . The silver plated ear trumpet is quite something. As is the nipple shield. more inside

PARO - the therapeutic robot baby seal. (and an entirely unrelated warning)

"I chose the potato to portray human faces because of the many striking parallels".

A Field Guide to Highway Interchanges: Part 1 and Part 2. Wow.

Transit duration: 0.8s Transit bandwidth on Earth: 5.6 km. Altitude: 600 km. Speed: 7 km/s (25000 km/h). Length of Atlantis : 35m, length of Hubble : 13m. via

A GQ article on Donald Rumsfeld . The throw up in your mouth interesting bit is the dozen or so cover sheets for the daily Iraq War intelligence briefing. Each with its own passage from the bible. The slide show on the main link isn't working for me, but you can see them by incrementing the image numbers in the URL of the second link. more inside

Awkward. Awkwaaaard more inside

Martha Mason, dead at 71. Ms. Mason died on Monday at her home in Lattimore, N.C. She was 71 and had lived for more than 60 years in an iron lung. In the centuries to come it is my firm belief that it is vaccination that will be seen as _the_ medical advance of our time.

Six transcripts from the UK's 999 service.

Raise your Spirits.

It's a record!!! (plus it looks like they only painted one side).

The series "Little Adults" explores "the recently growing society of the "Nouveau-Riche" [in Russia], in which children have been raised to become the "Elite" and to behave like little adults."