Lifetiles are hand-cast and hand fabricated works of art by Rufus Butler Seder (for those of you familiar with the "scanimation" book Gallop!).

Lost Souls in the Mountains : an Avro Lancaster bomber plane is found deep in the fiords of Tierra del Fuego, decades after it went missing. [via]

What are banks for? What are houses for? What’s credit for? What’s the economy for? Or, for that matter, what’s the environment for?

Travis, a 14 year-old 200-pound pet chimpanzee, rips the face off of a 55 year-old woman.

RIP Lux Interior

93 year old man freezes to death inside his own home. Pay your damn bills if you live in Bay City, Michigan!

Yippee! Sweat & piss make for one heck of a cool drink.

My life is ‘The Terminal 2' - Hiroshi Nohara is enjoying his stay in Mexico City, even if he doesn't know what he's doing there.

Curious George: Charity Contest The firm I work for has announced that they will be awarding 5 surprise $25,000 gifts to charitable organizations selected in a company-wide contest. more inside

Bruce, the banana-eating, mattress-shredding pig, is off to a piggery after trapping an Australian woman for 10 days.

Stand up, stand up for toilets... We need to talk about... toilets! more inside

Sarah Palin is McCain's VP pick. She's the current governor of Alaska.

Nearly 40 years after releasing his first album, Sixto Diaz Rodriguez gets his due. Idolized in South Africa, and presumed dead, the "Sugarman" has come back from the dead. more inside

Brazilian Social Photography of Tatiana Cardeal.

Friday Fun: BIGFOOT! Press conference at 12:00 noon PDT today, where "evidence" and "DNA details" of Bigfoot's existence will supposedly be "revealed".

eight-eight-oh-eight ∞-∞-∞ more inside

Terra autonomica and the plug-and-play brain.

Harry Eng was a master of "Impossible Bottles". Harry would tell you straight away that everything went through the neck of the bottle... THINK! more inside

Cuil has opened its doors to requests today. Brought to you by former Google employee Anna Patterson. Supposedly, Cuil's search index spans 120 billion Web pages, reportedly 3 times what Google has indexed.

Curious George: Where Am I? Where are you traveling to? Where are you now on vacation? Or perhaps, where are you planning to be? more inside