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How to beat Super Mario Brothers 3 in 11 minutes. If it's unedited (which I think it is), this is amazing. (link goes to .wmv file)
posted by Espoo2 at 11:50 PM PST - 35 comments

It's a sex toy, and it's alive! It's also NSFW and doesn't exist, but I really enjoyed the attention to detail that went into making this bizarro gag site.
posted by headspace at 10:36 PM PST - 21 comments

Bush in Baghdad, Behind the Scenes. Drudge has posted Washington Post reporter Mike Allen's raw notes from the 2-day secret whirlwind trip to Iraq. It reads like a script from "The West Wing." (The stripped-down finished article appears in Friday's Post.) Meanwhile, some in the journalism field are pissed, says Howard Kurtz. Says one: "Reporters are in the business of telling the truth. They can't decide it's okay to lie sometimes because it serves a larger truth or good cause."
posted by PrinceValium at 8:56 PM PST - 59 comments

Sign Language, The Easy Hungabunga Huggerbugger Boogerhunger Hoogerbrugge Way: Type a letter. Any letter. Or better still, a brilliant epigram by your good self. And see it finally make sense! [A few letters produce pleasantly rude results. Shockwave req. Via Bifurcated Rivets.]
posted by MiguelCardoso at 2:16 PM PST - 10 comments

The Courtald Institute of Art, via Art and Architecture, has made 40,00 images, and much else besides, available online. One more reason to love the web.
posted by Fat Buddha at 1:46 PM PST - 8 comments

Here are some ideas for Thanksgiving dinner, though not a circumstance I'd like to participate in. If ever there was a time to say Grace before dining, this certainly is one of those times. Pumpkin pie anyone?
posted by bluedaniel at 1:08 PM PST - 10 comments

Cannibalism was widespread and routine. Citing archaeological evidence and recent findings in molecular biology, archaeologist Timothy Taylor, author of The Buried Soul: How Humans Invented Death, says that cannibalism has been the norm in the past, and the more interesting question is why particular societies gave it up. (Previous discussions of cannibalism here and here.)
posted by homunculus at 1:06 PM PST - 9 comments

A martyr in the "war against terror"? Russian Pvt. Yevgeny Rodionov, 19, was killed in capitivy in Chechnya in 1996. (pic) Today, there is a folk movement to have him venerated as a saint. Another unusual diversion in the complex and uneasy dance between the church and the right wing in Russia.

(Warning: last link includes poorly-disguised swastika; English text by Boris Badenov)
posted by gimonca at 12:13 PM PST - 6 comments

Bush in Baghdad & Clinton in Kabul.

How far did you travel on this Thanksgiving Day?
posted by Steve_at_Linnwood at 12:07 PM PST - 53 comments

Kittens! [via waxy]
posted by riffola at 11:38 AM PST - 47 comments

Chinese Philately: stamps and cancellations of Imperial China.
posted by hama7 at 11:26 AM PST - 3 comments

Modern Drunkard's 86 Rules of Boozing. My favorite?

70. The patrons at your local bar are your extended family, your fathers and mothers, your brothers and sisters. Except you get to sleep with these sisters. And if you're really drunk, the mothers.
posted by mr_crash_davis at 9:15 AM PST - 24 comments

When your list of "dinosaur movies" can include "Wizard of Oz", maybe you've gone too far. These people make a distinction between “Live-action with people dressed as dinosaurs and/or mechanical dinosaurs” and “Live action with lizards dressed as dinosaurs or prehistoric animals”. That’s beyond thorough. But for basic information even potentially remotely related to dinosaurs and/or movies, I can’t imagine a better starting point.
posted by GhostintheMachine at 8:55 AM PST - 5 comments

My very own parasite "I swear it had two beady eyes on it. And it came out two or three inches, looked around and then retracted. I thought it was a dream, a vision of some sort." The yuck factor of our 'little friends' vs. the yuck factor of Flushing PCB's into your nursing infant through breast feeding ("Study finds a cocktail of potentially harmful man-made chemicals in every person tested in UK...") On our day of public gnawing on bird chunks, I ask : which of the above is yuckier? And does anyone out there have a juicy parasite tale to share?
posted by troutfishing at 5:56 AM PST - 45 comments

No volunteers for orgasm implant. A scientist claiming to have invented a device which produces orgasms at the touch of a button can't find women to help him conduct trials into it.
posted by MintSauce at 5:26 AM PST - 27 comments

The Beck Isle Museum, Pickering, North Yorkshire, chronicles rural Yorkshire life of the last 200 years. The collection of photographs by Sidney Smith is good. Via Museophile's museums around the UK links page.
posted by plep at 4:13 AM PST - 2 comments