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posted by dg at 9:20 PM PST - 16 comments

Jack Kelley makes Jayson Blair and Stephen Glass look like amateurs. So how come this story isn't getting more play?
posted by soyjoy at 8:58 PM PST - 41 comments

Simulatore di Orgasmi
Italian Orgasm Simulator. NSFW. Flash.
posted by trondant at 8:50 PM PST - 13 comments

Hamas said, "... Sharon has opened the gates of hell and nothing will stop us from cutting off his head.''
a. is assassination of political/spiritual leaders justified?
b. how much of setback to peace in israel/palestine, is this move?
c. did the whitehouse pre-approve this arguably major expansion in israel's war against palestinian "militants"?
ny times link
posted by specialk420 at 8:40 PM PST - 217 comments

Play Zork directly in IM. Send an instant message to InfoComBot and choose from a list of available text-based games. You can even save games and return to them later. One thing's for sure: I'm not getting any work done this week.
posted by mathowie at 8:04 PM PST - 18 comments

Go Ask Alice When She's Ten Feet Tall: Alice Waters's extraordinary influence on the way we shop, cook and eat makes her one of the great American heroes (and European too, check out the Larousse Gastronomique), mostly to those of us who have never been (and will never be) lucky enought to eat at Chez Panisse. [More inside.]
posted by MiguelCardoso at 6:32 PM PST - 25 comments

The Musical Saw and Theremin Page.
posted by hama7 at 5:07 PM PST - 13 comments

Join Me "It's not a cult - it's a collective"
posted by john_son at 3:39 PM PST - 13 comments

Archaeologists are denouncing plans for a tunnel under Stonehenge. It's not the idea of the tunnel itself that is drawing fire, so much as the execution. The govt seems to be doing it on the cheap, in a way that won't solve the problem of the modern world intruding on the prehistoric megalith.
posted by Slagman at 2:34 PM PST - 8 comments

MMMMMMMMMmmmmmm, Banana Worm Bread....... Most of us would cringe at the thought of eating our six legged friends, but many cultures eat insects as a standard practice. Perhaps we should lighten up and give it a shot ourselves! If one is so inclined there are clubs to join and resources available. Chocolate Chirpie Cookies, anyone?
posted by elwoodwiles at 2:31 PM PST - 14 comments

The Socratic Shrink. This is an interesting article on philosophical counseling, and the rivalry between Lou Marinoff's American Philosophical Practitioners Association and the American Society for Philosophy Counseling and Psychotherapy.
posted by homunculus at 12:25 PM PST - 11 comments

More Foreign (Terrorist) Leaders Want Bush Reelected A statement sent to the Arabic language daily al-Hayat by the terrorist group Abu Hafs al-Masri Brigades said it supported President Bush in his reelection campaign, and would prefer him to win in November rather than the Democratic candidate John Kerry, as it was not possible to find a leader "more foolish than you (Bush), who deals with matters by force rather than with wisdom."
posted by dogmatic at 11:40 AM PST - 19 comments

Prague's latest attraction - the Museum of Communism : it's interesting how the times have changed in eastern Europe...
posted by starscream at 11:32 AM PST - 0 comments - Post a Comment

Wanna know what your neigbors gave, and to whom? Fascinating site although I'm not too sure whether its a good idea.
posted by donfactor at 10:44 AM PST - 52 comments

The Thatcher Illusion (using Madonna), the original, Bush
posted by srboisvert at 9:33 AM PST - 25 comments

One Year Later... "In truth, most things have gone well... All in all, a good year's work."
posted by poopy at 9:22 AM PST - 49 comments

Cinema Redux creates a single, complete image of a film, second by second, minute for minute, producing a "fingerprint" or a "sort of movie DNA showing the colour hues as well as the rhythm of the editing process."
posted by steef at 8:12 AM PST - 14 comments

Mercury, Venus, Mars, Jupiter and Saturn, the five planets visible to the naked eye, can all be seen simultaneously after sunset over the next few weeks. Viewing details. The next opportunity will be in 2036.
posted by carter at 7:30 AM PST - 8 comments