QUICK LINKS ARCHIVE
August 31, 2008
Dowd on Palin (ouch)
August 28, 2008
August 26, 2008
A monkey takes a bath (but: monkeys should not be pets)
David Sedaris on the Stadium Pal
August 24, 2008
Bush Administration Tries to Redefine Contraception as Abortion
McCain Makes Historic First Visit to Internet
Stinging Tentacles Offer Hint of Oceans' Decline
How Sysco came to monopolize most of what you eat
Recession fear for half the globe, says Goldman Sachs
July 7, 2008
Unbelievable... Kellogg's™ Lego® Fruit Flavored Snacks (see)
July 5, 2008
Sun a "very ordinary" star, properties are not 'fine-tuned' for life
The drilling myth that just won't die
June 28, 2008
Amazon MP3 Special Deals Twitter Feed
A Remarkable Photo from Tornado Country
Newly found planets make case for 'crowded universe'
Pentagon report: Taliban regrouped, 'resilient'
June 4, 2008
Obama's Nomination Victory Speech
June 2, 2008
May 31, 2008
Barack Obama Realizes Realizes Running For President Completely Sucks
May 27, 2008
USA political election logos 2008 - 1960
The Usborne Book of the Future
7 Insane Conspiracies That Actually Happened
Drop in driving is steepest on record
May 16, 2008
China: Quake death toll could reach 50,000
May 13, 2008
Robert Rauschenberg dead at 82
May 7, 2008
Why iTunes is more expensive than Amazon.com
100,000 may have died in Myanmar cyclone
May 6, 2008
How I Spent My Stimulus: A Blog
May 5, 2008
Top 10 dystopian novels for teenagers
May 3, 2008
Ben Stein: "science leads you to killing people"
I know H.T.M.L. (made me chuckle for some reason)
May 1, 2008
Earth observation satellites in peril
Will climate change leave threatened species behind?
April 29, 2008
How the world really shapes up (distorted maps)
Is it worth going to the mind gym?
Video: Harmonious Hippos and Crocs
April 23, 2008
Evolution: 24 myths and misconceptions
April 22, 2008
'Bitter'? Actually, gun owners are happier than nonowners
Clinton uses Pearl Harbor, bin Laden images in new ad (voters, don't forget Bill Clinton's Laws of Politics)
April 9, 2008
Lies I've told my 3 year old recently
Dylan awarded special Pulitzer
March 28, 2008
Scott Pakin's automatic complaint-letter generator
Far and Wide: The Golden Age of Travel Posters
March 26, 2008
Nations ranked by current account balance (look at the top two or three; then look at the last one)
March 25, 2008
March 20, 2008
Lawrence Lessig: Ban corporate
lobbyists in D.C.
RAND Corp: U.S. deficient in meeting threat of Islamist insurgencies ("U.S. military intervention and occupation in the Muslim world" is "at best inadequate, at worst counter-productive, and, on the whole, infeasible." -- "massive military interventions against insurgencies usually fail")
March 19, 2008
Shockwave traffic jam recreated for first time
Scientists fight to save the last Java gibbons
March 17, 2008
U.N.: Glaciers shrinking at record rate
March 14, 2008
How Good Are Experienced Presidents?
March 11, 2008
Couch potato lifestyle may speed up aging
Richard Thompson covers Britney's "Oops!... I Did It Again" (still nowhere near as good as the TRUE original!)
L Ron Hubbard plagiarized Scientology?
Cookie Monster Answers the Proust Questionnaire
'The Wonder Years' without narration
February 11, 2008
February 9, 2008
Biofuels may threaten environment, U.N. warns
10 must see electron micrograph images
$1 Image Stabilizer for Any Camera
Spin the Black Circle (incredibly addictive Flash game - would be cool on scroll-wheel iPods)
February 4, 2008
January 26, 2008
Obama wins South Carolina primary!
January 23, 2008
Congo crisis has killed 5.4 million since 1998
Worries That the Good Times Were Mostly a Mirage
January 22, 2008
The 33 Things That Make Us Crazy (or, Why Things Suck)
January 21, 2008
January 15, 2008
... and Huckabee freaks me out yet again
January 14, 2008
The Cultural Elite Doesn't Exist..Well, Not Really
Video: Ron Paul on evolution ("a theological discussion"... ugh.)
An Astronaut in Every Painting
January 9, 2008
NetNewsWire (Mac) and FeedDemon (Win) RSS readers now available for free!
January 8, 2008
Nice encapsulation of my thoughts on Ron Paul: "The libertarians among us, and the libertarian philosophy, deserve a more sane spokesman." (While I'm on the topic, check out this comic strip.)
January 5, 2008
Holy @&%*! Author Steven Pinker Thinks We're Hardwired to Curse.
The Best Moments in Mike Huckabee's Extremism
January 4, 2008
Obama Wins Iowa's Democratic Caucuses!
January 3, 2008
50 Most Loathsome People in America, 2007
December 29, 2007
NYT Multimedia of Bhutto's Assassination (graphic)
December 20, 2007
November 30, 2007
Scientist Finds 500 Million Year Old Fossil on Trip to Creation Museum
November 9, 2007
Oliver Sacks on Earworms, Stevie Wonder and the View From Mescaline Mountain
November 8, 2007
Dancing Girl optical illusion (see also)
October 30, 2007
Comic strips: 'I am a Host At Olive Garden'
Alcohol sharpens the brain (also see the newsbites about this study and this one)
October 11, 2007
The Manliest Drinks in the World, and the Girliest (but be careful, women - too much can increase your risk of breast cancer)
October 2, 2007
Do rock stars really live fast and die young?
September 30, 2007
How the CIA Used a Fake Sci-Fi Flick to Rescue Americans from Tehran
Put your own words on the Subterranean Homesick Blues cards
September 23, 2007
Serious drought may strike western US
September 21, 2007
I can start linking to the New York Times again!
September 19, 2007
Solomon Islands to be clearcut?
God's Numbers (91% of Americans believe in God; half reject evolution; a third of college graduates accept Biblical creation as fact; etc.)
The Top Ten science moments in The Simpsons
September 11, 2007
If The Beatles Were Born Today
The Onion: Pitchfork Gives Music 6.8
Mother Teresa's Crisis of Faith
September 6, 2007
Are some airplane seats really safer than others?
Reporter refuses to cover Paris Hilton (video from earlier this year)
"Every morning I am tempted to go right..."
September 4, 2007
August 14, 2007
101 Greatest George Carlin Quotes
50 religious insights from George W. Bush
October 31, 2006
NASA to save Hubble, to astronomers’ delight
October 26, 2006
Ban A Book About Burning Books?
David Cross: Albums to Listen to While Reading Overwrought Pitchfork Reviews
List: 51 of the world's largest 100 economic entities are corporations
Complete Darwin works put online
Google Book Search increases book sales
September 22, 2006
Google Map of "Botched Paramilitary Police Raids"
Video: Photosynth from Microsoft Live Labs
Video: Microsoft's TouchLight makes 3D hands-on
Study: Earthlike planets may be common
September 8, 2006
Rev. George Coyne (Intelligent Design critic) canned from Vatican Observatory
Top 10 Pot Studies the Government Wished It Had Never Funded
10,000 Reasons Civilization is Doomed
Oops! CNN Airs Anchor's Girl Talk Over Bush Speech
August 27, 2006
US Department of Education 'overlooks' evolution
August 25, 2006
Anonymity Won't Kill the Internet
Video: OCD toilet-flushing cat
U.S. Lags World in Grasp of Genetics and Acceptance of Evolution
H. floresiensis "just a pygmy after all"? (see also)
Photos: tiny animals on fingers
August 1, 2006
Bees and flowers die out together
Ten tech-related YouTube clips you shouldn't miss
Famous logos redone in Web 2.0 style
Video: Windows Vista speech recognition demo gone awry
July 22, 2006
Wildfires linked to climate change
July 19, 2006
Rallying behind the eMusics of the world
Even mice show empathy for each other
July 16, 2006
The top 10 unintentionally worst company URLs
Lucrative College Degrees (What?! Anthropology's not there??)
July 15, 2006
Amazing NGS photo gallery: Frog Survival Linked to Eco-Health (see also: Extinction Crisis for Amphibians)
July 12, 2006
Video: Stevie Ray Vaughan breaks string, has to swtich guitars, never misses a beat
July 8, 2006
Video of Mississippi John Hurt (and part 2)
New film: Leonard Cohen - I'm Your Man
July 7, 2006
South Park's Scientology episode nominated for an Emmy (watch clips here)
July 6, 2006
'Billions of People are Going to Hell!'
July 3, 2006
Twenty MP3s of Great Songs from 1901-1920
July 2, 2006
Scientists Say Arctic Once Was Tropical
June 26, 2006
Pitchfork's 100 Awesome Music Videos
Earth likely hottest in 2,000 years
Harriet the tortoise dies, age 176
June 20, 2006
June 19, 2006
June 17, 2006
Scientific data (fMRI brain scans) support what we all know: people mellow with age
Turtle deformed by living trapped in 6-pack ring
June 8, 2006
Cosmotography - CCD images of the heavens
June 7, 2006
Funny: Vader calls Palpatine after Death Star is destroyed
5 minute exposure of Endeavour launch
Recently unearthed e-mail reveals what life was like in 1995
May 11, 2006
A Letter to Elton John from the Office of NASA Admininstrator
May 10, 2006
Cost of War Heading Toward $1 Trillion (see also)
The 2006 TIME 100 (yawn...)
Bush's worst moment in office? 9/11. Bush's best moment in office? Catching a 7.5 lb. perch
Video: Bush's Hayden/Goss déjà vu
April 24, 2006
Cheney and Rice sleep during Hu's briefing
Billy Bragg adapts Leadbelly's 'Bourgeois Blues' into 'Bush War Blues'
Neil Young: "Let's Impeach the President"
April 8, 2006
Paper Napkin e-mail rejection service
National Debt Clock running out of space
April 7, 2006
March 24, 2006
A visual look at where your tax dollars go
Snopes.com: Some people have eschewed retirement homes in favor of living on cruise ships
"Ayds, the diet pill from the 80s with an unfortunate name"
Microsoft designs the iPod package (a funny vid actually created by MS employees)
David Byrne on Pepper Grinding
February 26, 2006
AdMirror (mysterious coincidences in advertisements)
Dahlia Lithwick on presidential signing statements
Malcolm Gladwell now has a blog
Earth Hurtles Toward 6.5 Billion
RIAA Says Ripping CDs to Your iPod is NOT Fair Use
February 4, 2006
Medical students discuss "Things I Learn From My Patients"
January 31, 2006
100 Best First Lines from Novels
January 30, 2006
Climate Expert Says NASA Tried to Silence Him
January 28, 2006
The 50 Most Loathsome People in America, 2005
January 19, 2006
The Most Popular Myths in Science
Top 10 Wackiest Conspiracy Theories
January 17, 2006
January 15, 2006
January 12, 2006
January 11, 2006
Ignoring UK ban, bloggers publish leaked torture memos
Fear destroys what bin Laden could not
Zanger Bob, Dutch pre-teen pop star
January 9, 2006
Bill Gates’ predictions about speech recognition: a historical review
Clip of O'Reilly on Letterman (5.8 MB RealMedia)
NY Times Profiles 'Father of LSD,' nearly 100
Pasta Club devotional fountain
Climate study predicts big thaw
December 23, 2005
December 21, 2005
Patrick Stewart's new screenplay, 9.6 MB WMV (via)
December 20, 2005
2005 Year-End Google Zeitgeist (note the tabs)
December 19, 2005
December 18, 2005
Animation: evolution of the alphabet
Battling Bugs: A Digital Quagmire
December 16, 2005
If Valtrex commercials reflected real life
Bob Dylan to host music show on XM radio
Bill O'Reilly Wins Bill O'Reilly Award
December 1, 2005
November 23, 2005
NASA ready to check bizarre prediction of relativity
Bush To Increase Funding For Hope-Based Initiatives
November 22, 2005
Piece of tape defeats any CD DRM
November 20, 2005
November 16, 2005
Long-Awaited Beer With Bush Really Awkward, Voter Reports
November 15, 2005
November 13, 2005
The First Annual MySpace Stupid Haircut Awards
November 12, 2005
November 11, 2005
November 10, 2005
Ike was right about the war machine
November 7, 2005
714 Things to Be Cynical About
The Worst Jobs in Science (I like #3)
Developer's Top 10 replies when code doesn't work
Safari the first browser to pass the Acid2 test
October 25, 2005
Funny SNL parody of 'unscripted' presidential teleconference
October 21, 2005
Satellite images reveal Amazon forest shrinking faster
Origin of the novel species Noodleous doubleous
October 3, 2005
The fate of dogs in Katrina's aftermath (video)
September 29, 2005
7 Habits of Highly Successful People
September 19, 2005
September 13, 2005
Ever feel like this? (2 MB QuickTime)
Water crisis looms as Himalayan glaciers melt
25 Stupidest Hurricane Katrina Quotes
Nuclear stockpiles could create 300,000 bombs
The Many Scary Faces of Courtney Love
September 12, 2005
Apes 'extinct in a generation' (see also)
September 5, 2005
Where did all the baby boys go?
September 4, 2005
Is this the final blow in the Doppler wars?
September 3, 2005
Earth flyby movie from MESSENGER spacecraft
CNN weatherman loses cool while covering Hurricane Katrina
August 31, 2005
Whew! Your DNA Isn't Your Destiny
August 30, 2005
73% of U.S. adults could be 'overweight' or 'obese' by 2008
August 29, 2005
U.C. sued over creationism (see also)
August 26, 2005
Dust devils on Mars (5.7 MB .GIF)
Arctic could see ice-free summers in 100 years
August 24, 2005
This Just In: "Americans Most Likely to Go to Heaven, Study Shows"
August 21, 2005
What if...? Exploring alternative scientific pasts
August 18, 2005
August 17, 2005
This Just In: "Evangelical Scientists Refute Gravity With New 'Intelligent Falling' Theory"
August 16, 2005
Santorum resolute on Boston rebuke
August 15, 2005
The Greatest Commercial... Ever!, featuring Schwarzenegger (Quicktime: original / sequel)
PZ Myers writes about Chris Mooney's "The Republican War on Science"
Climate warning as Siberia melts
Why Jon Stewart Is All the Rage
Environmental damage seen from shuttle
August 10, 2005
Steve Robinson's Escheresque self portrait
Scientists puzzle over oddities along Pacific coast (see also)
July 16, 2005
July 14, 2005
July 13, 2005
E-mail forwarding amounts to ritual gift exchange
Facial Reconstruction: An Artist's View
The Right's Moment, Years in the Making
Bush sings 'Imagine' (6.2 MB MP3 w/ some profanity)
June 29, 2005
Harlan McCraney, Presidential Speechalist (hilarious)
June 22, 2005
June 21, 2005
New US move to spoil climate accord
June 20, 2005
'Possessed' nun crucified after row with priest
June 19, 2005
Recycled TV (11 MB QuickTime)
Vote on flag desecration may be 'cliffhanger'
Steve Jobs' Stanford Commencement Speech
Wikipedia's "List of people widely considered eccentric"
June 15, 2005
June 14, 2005
Fashion highs and lows of the Westboro Baptist Church
Creepy interactive animation of disturbed doll
June 13, 2005
In the future, everyone will be Hitler for 15 minutes
June 12, 2005
June 10, 2005
Colr Pickr (Flickr color picker)
June 9, 2005
June 4, 2005
June 1, 2005
Violence may be a 'socially infectious disease'
Amazon.com reviews by Smith T. Aames
Daily Weather Report by David Lynch
Buzz Aldrin's Conspiracy Smackdown
May 24, 2005
May 23, 2005
Biases revealed in US House of Representatives
New species of monkey found in Tanzania
Bizarre Sex Habits of The Extreme Right Wing
Messengers of Faith Talking Bible Dolls
May 22, 2005
"A democracy can die of too many lies"
May 20, 2005
LiveJournal geographical usage data as a percent of population
The Unitarian Jihad (and Your Unitarian Jihad Name)
Life's Top 10 Greatest Inventions
Random Jack Kerouac Quote Generator
A Condensed History of Everything (for the serious, I recommend A Short History of Nearly Everything)
The 50 Worst Hairstyles of All Time
May 10, 2005
Unspeakable Happens in Area Town
Expressionless Girl (and sampling of original photos)
Pat Robertson: Watch This Clip
May 3, 2005
Smallest, Coolest Apartment Contest
And I thought free DSL was good...
Extra! Extra! Tiger Headlines Roar!
E-mails 'hurt IQ more than pot'
What Age Will You Die? (82 for me)
April 28, 2005
Oops I Did It Again: The Original
April 13, 2005
Greg's Digital Retouching Portfolio (look at the models and the shoe)
I'm not sure if this is a hoax or not, but either way it's... fascinating: America We Stand As One (28 MB QuickTime)
Uh-oh: Cost of Living Now Outweighs Benefits
April 8, 2005
VLC might disappear due to patent legislation
April 4, 2005
Did the Catholic church in Ireland imprison wayward girls?
High Priestess of Punk (short Patti Smith interview)
Living will is the best revenge
Make your own South Park character
March 31, 2005
365 Days Project (from UbuWeb)
March 30, 2005
Be Careful With Those Bumper Stickers
March 24, 2005
March 22, 2005
'Charles Darwin Has A Posse' stickers
March 20, 2005
March 19, 2005
All Things Cowboy (from Cowboy Books)
Loser at Logic, Winner in D.C.
March 18, 2005
Dance, Monkeys, Dance (4.6 MB Flash)
March 17, 2005
Bridge - the ongoing story of the persistent attempts to get to the other side
March 16, 2005
Learn How to Lie and Win Elections (see also: Progressive Trickery)
Salman Rushdie: Keep religion out of public life
March 15, 2005
Are nanobacteria making us ill?
AOL fixes its terms of service
March 14, 2005
March 13, 2005
Ouch: "China, Others Criticize U.S. Report on Rights"
AOL Eavesdrops, Grants Itself Permission To Steal Your AIM Conversations
March 11, 2005
The cell phone industry: Big Tobacco 2.0?
North Korea promotes vacations with wacky Flash movie
March 10, 2005
People I Am Going To Hell With
March 8, 2005
Twinoo (Right/Left brain game)
March 5, 2005
I really want this knife rack
March 4, 2005
A (very funny) Boondocks pulled from several newspapers
Fired for hand-rolled cigarettes
March 3, 2005
March 2, 2005
Animated mathematical GIFs (part of Mathematical Art)
February 26, 2005
February 24, 2005
Cool animation of sketching from skeleton to complete woman
Sir Mix-A-Lot goes evangelical: Baby Got Book (or 19 MB .AVI)
Microsoft Parent's Guide to Leetspeek
February 23, 2005
Onion Editorial: I Support the Occupation of Iraq, but I Don't Suppourt Our Troops
Tour Diary: Bush in Europe (Day 1, Day 2, Day 3)
February 18, 2005
Fonts inspired by rock band logos
February 16, 2005
February 10, 2005
How do you say "soylent green" in Estonian?
February 8, 2005
Joe Klein on The Daily Show: 12 MB video (.mov) / 8 MB audio (.mp3)
Alarm bells ring louder over climate change
From Tiny Mix Tapes, the Automatic Mix Tapes Generator
February 3, 2005
Pitchfork's Top 100 Singles, 2000-04
February 2, 2005
Sanyo asks employees to buy its products
Hide Your IPod, Here Comes Bill
January 31, 2005
(Culture) War Is Declared in Europe
January 28, 2005
January 27, 2005
The Scandal Sheet (the first four years)
Hieronymus Bosch Action Figures
January 24, 2005
Climate crisis near 'in 10 years'
Non-desktop uses for a Mac mini
January 23, 2005
Too bad... Hubble rescue 'will be scrapped'
Compare your height to famous people (visually)
January 22, 2005
January 19, 2005
Prepare to Lose Your Mind... it's the Hasselhoffian Recursion
January 18, 2005
Draw Your Style (Windows Media)
Bill Gates poses for 1983 'Teen Beat' (two photos)
January 17, 2005
Fmr. Treasury Secty. Paul O'Neill on Social Security: Who Wants to Be a Millionaire?
SOS: Students for an Orwellian Society
January 15, 2005
Why Wikipedia Must Jettison Its Anti-Elitism
Scientists cheer evolution ruling
One man's take on "Jon Stewart's Political Agenda"
January 10, 2005
Photo of fallen boulder on California road
January 8, 2005
January 7, 2005
January 5, 2005
December 23, 2004
December 22, 2004
What's wrong with this picture?
December 21, 2004
Shame of the City (a special report on the homeless in San Francisco)
December 18, 2004
Lower Back Tattoo Remover (WMV)
December 17, 2004
December 16, 2004
The Price of Fear Is Paid in Lost Freedom
December 14, 2004
December 11, 2004
Why Academia Shuns Republicans
December 9, 2004
U.N.K.L.E. 'Eye For An Eye' Video
December 8, 2004
Troops put thorny questions to Rumsfeld
'No drop' in world hunger deaths
Women 'bearing the brunt of war'
Bush as World Traveler: Hello, He Must Be Going
December 6, 2004
George W. Bush Christmas Ornament
December 5, 2004
Ask Google Image Search a question
The BSOD documented in public places
November 28, 2004
Student: "Why Isn't 'Just Thinking' Rewarded?"
Old anti-Commie comic book endorsed by J. Edgar Hoover
November 25, 2004
Thomas L. Friedman: In My Next Life
November 23, 2004
10 worst album covers of all time
Disclaimer stickers for textbooks
November 22, 2004
Clouds of pollution pictured from space
The WIRED CD: Rip. Sample. Mash. Share.
How to be a slacker in 6 easy steps
November 17, 2004
November 16, 2004
The Peter Principle and the Neocon Coup
Science Braces for Second Term
November 15, 2004
Tweedy: Music Is Not a Loaf of Bread
November 14, 2004
Kristof: "Our Not-So-Free Press"
High schoolers singing Dylan's "Masters of War" visited by Secret Service
Rove: Victory may begin decades of GOP dominance
Students Fight Copyright Hoarders
November 13, 2004
Sorry Everybody / Apologies Accepted
November 12, 2004
The Lost Journals of Doogie Howser, M.D.
November 10, 2004
November 4, 2004
A collection of end-of-world scenarios
October 31, 2004
Twenty Words That Should Exist
Titan Photos Pose New Questions
October 30, 2004
The Onion's Election Day Guide
October 29, 2004
American Rhetoric: Top 100 Speeches
October 28, 2004
Civilian death toll in Iraq exceeds 100,000
DREAMS OF THE GREAT EARTH CHANGES
State of Security (Flash)
Bush's one-finger salute (QuickTime)
October 26, 2004
October 15, 2004
The Everything Guide to Liquidating Your Life
October 12, 2004
October 11, 2004
Top 100 four-word film reviews
Special Feature @ New Scientist: Are You Listening, America?
How to create the worst playlist ever
October 8, 2004
October 7, 2004
zoom (Flash)
October 6, 2004
How to run a campaign on a record of failure (QuickTime)
William Shatner Has Been (review; and another)
Surrealist and other beautiful games
October 3, 2004
September 29, 2004
An Unsolicited Commercial Love Story
The 100 most important American musical works of the 20th century
Origins with Neil deGrasse Tyson
Nancy Sinatra's indie-rock comeback
September 27, 2004
70 things you may or may not know about Leonard Cohen
Carter fears Florida vote trouble
September 26, 2004
How does Ali G keep conning famous guests?
Iran: Democracy in Retrograde
September 23, 2004
Google aids Chinese censorship
Blogging the Story Alive
September 21, 2004
This year's 55 Fiction winners
September 20, 2004
September 14, 2004
September 10, 2004
Bill of Rights, Security Edition
September 9, 2004
September 8, 2004
September 7, 2004
August 18, 2004
Presidential Campaign Commercials
August 17, 2004
August 13, 2004
August 2, 2004
The Supportive Hug (PDF)
July 11, 2004
July 8, 2004
Amazon.com Knee-Jerk Contrarian Game
July 7, 2004
July 6, 2004
July 4, 2004
June 27, 2004
June 23, 2004
June 11, 2004
June 10, 2004
June 7, 2004
The World's Largest Ball of Paint
June 4, 2004
Rice compares Bush to Roosevelt, Churchill
Programming Language Inventor or Serial Killer?
June 3, 2004
June 1, 2004
Maybe this explains the popularity of Fox News
May 27, 2004
First Annual Xerox Art Show
May 26, 2004
A study finds Zurich and Geneva are the top cities for overall quality of life. Wasn't it already obvious?
May 24, 2004
10 stories the world should hear more about
May 23, 2004
May 21, 2004
The first rule of Nerd Club is, you don't e-mail anyone about Nerd Club...
May 20, 2004
Jon Stewart's recent commencement address<