Comics artist Chris Ware on French TV 2005 (english content starts a couple minutes in)
Part 1 / Part 2 / Part 3

The anti-KandyChopper movement is going strong at ratbike

Chicken-Fried Bacon with Cream Gravy (youtube)

Some great ferrofluid vids at youtube

Math and islamic tiles

What's special about this number?

"Finding His Voice" Fleisher 1929

"Nobody gets boo'ed down here"
The music scene in Antarctica (Pitchfork)

Huge Laser Graffiti (via mefi)
Instructions. Start tagging.

Beijing is on the hunt for bad translations. (WSJ)
For years, foreigners in China have delighted in the loopy English translations that appear on the nation's signs. They range from the offensive ("Deformed Man," outside toilets for the handicapped) to the sublime (on park lawns, "Show Mercy to the Slender Grass"). Last week, Beijing city officials unveiled a plan to stop the laughter. With hordes of foreign visitors expected in town for the 2008 Summer Olympics, Beijing wants to cleanse its signs of translation nonsense. For the next eight months, 10 teams of linguistic monitors will patrol the city's parks, museums, subway stations and other public places searching for gaffes to fix.

Early Aircraft Design at Adventure Lounge
(found link-hopping thru the always necessary coudal)

Websters needs to update their definition of "gall".

An excellent Daily Kos article on the seemingly bizarre resurgence of geocentrism within the Christian right. The author thinks its a pretext to a movement designed to actively accelerate the Apocolypse.
Wikipedia on modern geocentrism.

There are an estimated 250,000 vintage American vehicles within Cuba, the largest island in the Caribbean and home to 11 million people. Some are relics rusting in the streets, but most continue to rumble along, a testimonial both to American manufacturing know-how and Cuban inventiveness.

A flickr set of cuban cars

Wordie: Like Flickr, but without the photos
Free word association.

Spiders on drugs
Someone just yanked a good Youtube doc on same

Is your cell phone bugged? (youtube)

Squeaking alien eaten
vid on Pravda.

Overheard (SFGate)
"I'm getting a dog on Saturday to replace my wife.'' (Man to man, overheard at Starbucks by Shirley Norton.)

Pictures that become something else when rotated upside down or sideways