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Costco draws criticism from Wall Street for paying decent wages. One analyst complains that "Costco runs its business like it is a private company." The Teamsters think otherwise, claiming Costco is the only company Wal-Mart fears. [via Obscure Store]
posted by F Mackenzie at 9:32 PM PST - 55 comments

I thought this was an interesting review of this series from the New York Public Library. And here is some background information.
posted by Slagman at 8:45 PM PST - 5 comments

Go screw yourself! One man takes up the challenge. For...um...science and the betterment of something or other.
posted by jonmc at 6:58 PM PST - 25 comments

Night of the Living Dead in 95 minutes with bunnies. I lied about the bunnies.
posted by God at 5:39 PM PST - 13 comments

Kompressor wants to be the U.S. president. Even though he isn't a U.S. citizen.
posted by machaus at 5:20 PM PST - 4 comments

Ralph Nader: The Unchallenged Hero of Muslims Before you jump to note that the magazine this appears in is Right of Center, what you need to ask is how well documented is the case being made. For me, what is of interest is that if Nader is in fact liked by Muslims, as this suggests, then Muslims may vote for him and take votes away from Bush or would they take votes from Democrats? [...]Nader must have made quite an impression, because the next year, ICNA's former president invited him to headline an Islamic conference in Florida with none other than Shaikh Abdur-Rahman Al-Sudais, a top Saudi cleric who has called on Allah to "terminate" Jews -- "the scum of humanity" and "grandsons of monkeys and pigs" -- while urging Muslims to shun peace with Israel.[...]
posted by Postroad at 4:18 PM PST - 31 comments

Osama vs Gandhi. Alas not Celebrity Deathmatch but an interesting discussion of worldviews from the latest Prospect.
posted by biffa at 3:51 PM PST - 9 comments

Best. Baby. Site. Ever. A huge reason: Trixie is cute. Other reasons: TPOD and the telemetry, oh the telemetry! The charts are amazingly thorough, and funny. Definitely part of what makes this site such a delight is Trixie's dad, whose entries are witty and thoughtful. As a new dad myself, with my own baby page, I'm impressed, but I imagine this'll be good readin' for all, parents or no.
posted by eustacescrubb at 2:32 PM PST - 29 comments

German Propaganda Archive.
posted by hama7 at 2:02 PM PST - 8 comments

political friendster
an offspring of theyrule.net after a one night stand with disinfopedia? via k10k
posted by specialk420 at 1:57 PM PST - 4 comments

Notecannons. An online pictorial history of National brand stringed instruments from 1920 - present.
posted by eastlakestandard at 1:31 PM PST - 3 comments

What's that noise? People hearing a mysterious, persistent hum aren't alone. Remember the Taos Hum?
posted by protocool at 12:03 PM PST - 14 comments

A Microchip Makes Its Mark: VeriChip & the Beast - Broadening the discussion on technology into absurdist thoughts on the end of times, courtesy the always amusing Christian Broadcasting Network.
posted by Peter H at 11:56 AM PST - 11 comments

POVRay Short Code Contest 3 - Surprisingly complex (though not necessarily pretty) images created with scene files of no more than 256 characters. I like the recursive trees. Via abcde.
posted by signal at 11:43 AM PST - 9 comments

Digging for Nasal Gold with a Doc's Blessing
An Austrian doctor is proposing that children be encouraged to pick their nose and to eat their boogers. "Dr Bischinger said: 'With the finger you can get to places you just can't reach with a handkerchief, keeping your nose far cleaner.'"
And ".....people who pick their nose and eat it get a natural boost to their immune system for free."
Who knew that the dirty kid in your grade school class who picked his nose all the time and ate it would have a stronger immune system?
Do kids really need to be encouraged to go mining in their faces at every opportunity?
posted by fenriq at 11:32 AM PST - 33 comments

The Coolest Book You Didn't Know You Needed. Do you have one?
posted by ZenMasterThis at 10:04 AM PST - 19 comments

Babes Against Bush "It's no secret that a lot of Americans, and particularly American men, don't pay much attention to politics, and don't seem to notice when their leaders are ruining the country they live in. We wanted to find an interesting and attention-getting way to spur at least some people to sit up and take notice of a some basic facts..... Bush got into office by virtue of a complacent supreme court-and only 537 votes in the state of Florida. We think we can convince 538 people to vote against him." And if not, they can at least have make some money for some good causes with their calendar and have a good laugh at some of their hate mail.
posted by orange swan at 9:18 AM PST - 21 comments

Jesse Friedman's Web Site from the incredibly powerful and amazing documentary Capturing the Friedmans. A "documentary on the Friedmans, a seemingly typical, upper-middle-class Jewish family whose world is instantly transformed when the father and his youngest son are arrested and charged with shocking and horrible crimes." When watching the film from start to finish I went back and forth on their guilt or innocence and when the film was over I'm still not sure. In the time of the mass media hysteria and questionable police tactics what would you have done?
posted by suprfli at 8:59 AM PST - 3 comments

Fun with optics. [flash]
posted by casarkos at 8:59 AM PST - 9 comments

War Rationale: Version 10.0 In the year since the invasion of Iraq, the Bush administration has repeatedly shifted its justification for going to war and constantly changed its story on intelligence, the United Nations, reconstruction, political transition and the cost to the American taxpayer. We all know (almost) everything about it by now, but this account is hilarious.
posted by acrobat at 8:22 AM PST - 6 comments

Burn some time. But first, you'll have to find the flint, the rock, and the tinder, then combine the three. Think like a caveman. And watch out for the sabretooth tiger. (Friday Flash Shockwave Fun)
posted by leapfrog at 7:24 AM PST - 5 comments

Friday Flash Shockwave Spy Bot. "You work by fighting DataBattles, in which you deploy and maneuver programs to defeat opposing software on the memory grid." Good wholesome fun, and highly addictive.
posted by vraxoin at 7:11 AM PST - 3 comments

McDonald's to start hawking kid's clothes. Will they make super sizes? (Don't miss the classic file photo of "children in a McDonald's restaurant.")
posted by CunningLinguist at 6:38 AM PST - 24 comments

New biofuel would combine jet fuel and soya oil to slash consumption of fossil fuel, and help slow the rise in greenhouse gas levels...
posted by mcgraw at 6:34 AM PST - 9 comments

Some Of Our Best Poets Are Fascists: An interesting article by Guy Davenport. My own theory is that an inordinate percentage of great (and minor) Modernist writers were, politically speaking, bonkers. Ezra Pound, Fernando Pessoa and T.S.Eliot were all distastefully authoritarian, anti-semitic and, in general, rancorous old farts. Why is this, if anyone still cares? [Via Arts and Letters Daily.]
posted by MiguelCardoso at 6:17 AM PST - 22 comments

The case of the four eared kitten. Let's all say it together now: AWWWWWWW!
posted by bargle at 6:14 AM PST - 10 comments

Stumbling around today I found this nice convergence of art + font + music. (This is the main site)
Dylan
Nirvana
Lennon

It's very reminiscent of this software from Synthetik

A still from Studio Artist
Studio Artist sample movies from Invisible Mountains
posted by filmgeek at 5:43 AM PST - 6 comments

"Conflict is an important social force among online communities, as it assists in the construction of hierarchies and social orders without the need for prior knowledge of individual participants or other forms of verification or trust in relation to the claimed identity of others."
posted by Blue Stone at 5:37 AM PST - 8 comments

What really knocks me out is a book that, when you're all done reading it, you wish the author that wrote it was a terrific friend of yours and you could call him up on the phone whenever you felt like it. That doesn't happen much, though.

Holden Caulfield in Catcher In The Rye

J.D. Salinger did not quite agree but then, if you can't hang out with his secretive self, or any other chosen literary icon, you can build her or him a fitting shrine or two or three. It's not quite Smoking Dope with Thomas Pynchon but...
posted by y2karl at 12:51 AM PST - 13 comments

Supersizing of America may be linked to high-fructose corn sweeteners
posted by thedailygrowl at 12:14 AM PST - 40 comments