I get a lot of my links from the Exploding Aardvark, and so should you.

1. Worse-than-hummer dude-ranch asshole truck now has big TV in it for watching porn! I hope I happen to have a L.A.W. rocket handy if I see one of these on the road.
2. CURSE OF THE ICEMAN! AIIIIIGH!
3. It’s the 400th anniversary of the English War on Terror, on which day we celebrate a famously unsuccessful Catholic terrorist!
4. Our new embassy in Ottawa is messing with people’s garage doors. I’m an amateur radio dork, and I run into stuff like this all the time. The 440MHz band is primarily reserved for the military here and we have secondary use. So every time the President arrives in town 440 is unusable due to noise. And when it goes bad like that and there’s nothing in the news, we think “Hmm…”
5. You are going to die anyway, so why not in Cambodia?
6. Mr. Lopez was, indeed, being uncooperative. This stuff works better in movies.
7. Oops! Looks like Sideshow Bob escaped.

1. theuglyvolvo has a wonderful office story that I won’t spoil for you; just read it.
2. Oops. They built too many of those stupid Hummers. Thanks, kniwt!
3. has a really sweet shot of some young musicians. Aww.
4. I grew up watching European animation and loving it, especially Bruno Bozzetto. Someone has collected Flash versions of a few of his shorts, including the wonderful Horror movie one.
5. Usually landscape and nature photos leave me cold, but Adamus is freakin’ amazing.
6. Using lots of “hip” 1990s design for the “kids”, McDonalds is taking the McRib on a “farewell tour”. Someone should tell them that their food is bacterial and not viral. Plus, the McRib has had more comebacks than Anna Russell. Plus, it’s gross.
7. The pharmaceutical industry commissioned a sub-Crichton novel about how terrorists use important Canadian drugs to kill us all. I am not making this up. Makes me wonder in retrospect how much Crichton was paid for Airframe.
8. Totally cute little Famicom Micro will make Nintendo fans and all video game aficionados happy.
9. Uh, someone found a SUITCASE FULL OF HUMAN BONES WITH A HAT ON IT.
10. Religious conservatives who support the Republican party should know that the guys in charge call them “wackos” and manipulate and mock them.
11. How to become an outlaw legend, high speed chase style. Not your average chase video. Wow.
12. Welcome to sunny Southern California, where parents host “Pimp ‘n’ Ho” parties for their 14-year-old kids.
13. Louisiana doesn’t have the $3.7 billion that the feds say is “their share” of the cost of Katrina.

1. The Palms Hotel in Las Vegas is doing some rebuilding, including custom suites. Okay, “Erotic Suite”, the usual honeymoon thing. But I would seriously pay out for the “Bowling Suite” that includes two regulation sized lanes. Damn.
2. I don’t have a big problem with heights, but I think I’ll be avoiding the glass bottomed bridge 4000 feet over the Grand Canyon they’re putting in next year. Ulp.
3. Ursi found a giant jpeg of Ground Zero NY from the air at 1016 dpi.
4. Here’s a great big pretty site all about playing cards and their history.

1. Recent email released shows what a comically villainous frat boy dick Michael Brown is. You got that shirt at Nordstrom? How nice! Now, about that pile of corpses…
2. Stay Free really yanked Cafepress’ chain but good. The site for Panexa is hilarious on its own.
3. The Harlequin Romance people are branching out. Soon you’ll see “women’s fiction” they’ve produced after a deal with… Oh just click it.
   

1. Ladies and gentlemen, meet Samuel R. Delany: human vacuum cleaner. Try not to suck any cock on the way out to the parking lot, Sam!
2. Crispin Clover and Courtney Peldon at halloween. You know you have to click it.
3. This makes me very happy: a knitted digestive system! Via Pharyngula.
4. Independent civil engineering study finds that the NOLA levees failed due to bad engineering made worse by lack of funding.
5. Also on the subject of NOLA, the Nine Inch Nails site has some truly apocalyptic photos of the Ninth Ward. Amazing destruction.

1. Got a stalker? Carry a stealth pepper spray cellphone!
2. Here’s another reason to be terrified of birds: you can get eye cancer from them. Not that psittacosis was a fun disease to start with, but this is really icky.
3. William & Mary College has posted a delightfully contorted letter defining their reasons for keeping their team nickname “Tribe”. As Veronica Geng once said, I love the sound of anxiety being rationalized. (via Bobby Isosceles). Personally I’d settle for a ban on “tribal tattoos” and a good caning for anyone who uses the word as a noun, as in “the dude had a tribal on his arm”. What the fuck is a “tribal”? Which tribe? Cherokee? The Jews? BOO-Yaa?
4. Not only do I dislike the principles behind the Amy Foundation Writing Awards, I really really really wish they wouldn’t use “disciple” as a verb.
5. I don’t much care to hear that our nuclear bombers are getting an “unsatisfactory” on their report cards.
6. Wow, I can date a WHAT? (Thanks, exploding aardvark!)
7. So, we, like, dumped a bunch of chemical weapons? In the ocean? Until 1972 or so? And they’re totally, like coming up on shore now? (Thanks again, vark!)
8. Local alert: does anyone else know this Italian market/deli in Tustin? I just read a good review of it on the interweb and I like me some Italian sandwich.

1. Kick ass! An aurora borealis webcam! Night hours only. pbd will be pleased I bet.
2. These people will replicate any vehicle in mahogany or teak, hand-carved.
3. So, are we back to only two phone companies now, or what?
4. H5 bird flu has arrived in Canada. Let’s all hope it isn’t H5N1.
5. At the Chipotle burrito chain today they’ll give you free food if you show up wrapped in foil.
6. This is sort of sweet. Somewhat innocent wack-job “Minutemen” anti-immigration terrorists are proudly guarding Vermont’s border with Canada, unaware that the whole thing is about hating Mexicans. Subtexts are hard.
7. We seriously might be better off washing our hands with plain soap and yogurt rather than antiseptics, even in hospitals.
8. In related news, 4000-year-old Mesopotamians were apparently pretty good at medicine.
9. This CMU robot geek would like to help you survive the Robot Holocaust, whether it comes in 2084 or sooner.
10. Indicted White House staffer Lewis “Scooter” Libby also writes bad dirty books. Really bad.
11. Hey, they found two more moons of Pluto! YAY!

1. I’m as big a fan of biotech against disease as the next guy, but I get this nervous twitch in my eye when they talk about using genetically modified chickens to fight the bird flu.
2. ANTI MONKEY BUTT POWDER!
3. We’re going to be using Roombas to find snipers now? Well, not exactly.
4. Due to bird flu, the Croatian government has quarantined the late Marshal Tito’s parrot. Sometimes life just presents us with this great condensed symbols we don’t need to improve.
5. We have beautiful desert wildflowers in California; they’re surprising to see in what people think is a wasteland. Feral Flowers is a wonderful site about the weird habits of these plants and their periodic appearance and disappearance.

1. Kansas City teen finds FIFTY SIX POUND MUSHROOM.
2. The LAPD is looking for a very dangerous Bond Girl. Via LA Observed.
3. Rosa Parks is the first woman in U.S. history to lie in state in the Capitol Rotunda.
4. The AIDS corpse pile grows, West Nile is scaring the shit out of us, and we may soon all die of bird flu. So we’re all pretty stoked that the CDC is spending $60 million on a visitors center including a formal Japanese garden.
5. Feeling a little light in the loafers? Take a Hetracil.
6. Shitty fantasy writers, which is to say all of them, should be forced to follow these guidelines on pain of death. Are you listening, Mr. McKiernan?