1. Whoa, 1000 year old ceramics rescued from shipwreck!
2. Daliesque melting sofa will fit in any scheme of décor. Trust me.
3. Celebrities do like their personally branded fragrances, but some of them should choose something other than their last names. Why not “Alan”, fer chrissakes?
4. Lesbian stalker loses vampire love battle. I said, LESBIAN STALKER LOSES VAMPIRE LOVE BATTLE! The headlines in my town are more like “Area market showcases broccoli”.
5. Merlin Mann has collected all those great textads you get that urge you to get get bargains on bowel disease or neofascism, ,etc in a flickr set.
6. Here is a neat website about the Northern Lights (aurora borealis).
7. Okay, old meme, but PANTERA POPE!. (audio on page)

1. Scientific American has a good general article on flu pandemic preparation
2. Today’s wacky Norwegians story: hilarious anti-littering ad campaign.
3. As chosen by the Daily Telegraph and Novartis in the UK, here are the best science photos of 2005. I especially like the peppercorn next to the salt grain:

   

4. Wait, wait, wait. My country’s people are spending $3.29 billion on WHAT this year? Empires in Decline, folks, Empires in Decline.
5. Surreality TV: America’s Next Top Muppet.
6. I am enjoying the eggcorns. And by “enjoying” I mean “cringing in a snobby way”.

1. P.C. Load Letter, SIR!
2. Anyone here read or seen Costa Gavras’ novel and movie Z?, well, it just happened in Turkey.
3. The Lifetime Television Award for Patronizing and Insulting Media Intended for Women goes to Salon.com for “Introducing Salon’s cheeky new women’s blog”.
4. Dreck auteur Uwe Boll is making a movie of the video game “Postal” starring Gary Coleman. That is all.
5. Ladies and Gentlemen, your attention please. You have been mourning a chicken. Please adjust your shmerz appropriately.
6. Why we fight: follow the money.
7. Brainmaps.org has fascinating high-res maps of the brain in sections, etc. Great stuff.

1. Our Headline of the Week so far is: Six-fingered cursed androgyne swills vodka.
2. Motor Trend has more photos of the Suzuki tiny neato car that looks like a Wallace & Gromit cartoon.
3. This is some creepy-ass shit: Girl has inexplicable syndrome that keeps her an infant at age 12. Via Aetiology.
4. geoff_chaucer does blaxploitation teasers.

1. Okay, our local millionaire whorehouse is pretty funny, but the WFMU blog has a piece about one that wins just because of its name.
2. I want a blur building!
3. For Family Guy fans with Windows boxes, there’s a downloadable Stewie program now.
4. Morse Code is dead. Long live the Morse Code watch!
5. How to cook an alien.
   

1. odradak especially and fans of good animation and Piaf will enjoy A quoi ça sert l’amour, a lovely animation of the song. It’s pure romance in the very best way. Thanks, Exploding Aardvark!
2. Looks like it’s “Neuroscience Deals with Religion” week for all of us, as the Dalai Lama arrives to speak at a neuroscience conference and some people feel that’s not such a great idea. I’m with the asshole scientists and not the lamafans here. (Thanks again, Exploding Aardvark!)
3. And now, your moment of ostrich (SFGate via tuliphead)
4. SONIC PROPERTIES OF GENETICALLY MODIFIED POTATOES. Yeah, that’s what i said.
5. Screenshots of a new MMORPG called. um. Yogurting.
6. VW has built the EcoRacer, a mid-engined sports car with a 0-60 of 6.3 seconds, top speed of 143 mph, and an average fuel economy of 83 miles per gallon. Runs on a 1.5 liter diesel engine. Why can’t I preorder one now?
7. “Trained Wasps” sounds more like a plot device for a horror movie than a way to find bombs.
8. trinnit sends me this really bad day at the tollboth.
9. In other criminal justice news, this guy would have been better off as a Dale Earnhardt fan.

And now off to the phrenologist.

1. The Themis page at ASU has some totally awesome don’t miss Mars images.
2. UFO CATTLE ABDUCTION AUUUIIIGGGH short quicktime movie via adjab.
3. Happy Halloween from Pillsbury: mummy or penis? You make the call. Also via adjab.
4. From a paper and pen site: HOWTO improve your handwriting. I think mine is beyond help.
5. Edgar Allan Seuss (via Exploding Aardvark and robot wisdom).
6. News Flash: Deepak Chopra is still an overinflated idiot.
7. In the middle of this, an environmental organization’s fundraising company telemarketed me and refused to communicate with me by mail instead because “that’s bad for the environment”. They have no email list and therefore I had myself removed from their call list. Brilliant, guys. Now back to the links.
8. Pharyngula points me to the truly amazing cartoonist Nina Paley! You should go there too! I especially like her 1920s/blues musical ramayana riff Sita Sings the Blues.
9. Gigabit internet from balloons. I said, GIGABIT INTERNET FROM BALLOONS!
10. Don’t fuck with rodents. They’re tougher than you and they may be smarter.

1. Distance Learning Notes from All Over: Al Qaeda University. Via Defense Tech blog.
2. Math + childhood TV + lol = Pi. burningskyz will appreciate I’m sure.
3. I’ve never been a fan of the online comic strip Penny Arcade, but their response to attorney/psycho Jack Thompson on their page is wonderful. Years of experience dealing with online trolls gives them an edge, I think.
4. When you’re camping in the Antarctic, weird stuff happens to the steam from your coffee.
5. Merle Haggard wants us out of Iraq.
6. Students create edible WHAT?

1. Essential furniture: The cephalopod table.
2. Oh great, color laser printers have secret tracking data they put on your printouts. I hate it when paranoid schizophrenia turns out to be appropriate.
3. These weenies in the U.S. who type furiously about war have nothing on the toughest warblogger of them all. Current mood: bloodstained.
4. Surrealist mustard watches. Yes.
5. PANDA CAM! PANDA CAM! PANDA CAM!

1. Some of the genetic background of Tourette’s Syndrome in a careful and fascinating article at Pharyngula. Neuroscience geeks only though, it’s kind of detailed.
2. To some folks, it’s only copyrighted if it’s their stuff. (WFMU)
3. South Korea is to Spam as France is to Jerry Lewis. Inexplicable phenomenon is described in an LA Times article. Bugmenot or genital/genital for registration.
4. Yamaha is showing a concept of a hybrid motorcycle, 600 cc engine + electric, which they say has the performance of a 1000 cc bike. Also, it has an awesome supervillain look:

   

5. Here’s an interesting summary of the drug-resistant bird flu report from Vietnam. Alert: science jargon here, may cause spirally eyes.