You know the rules ansd so do I. Now dance!

Nollywood is a Photography Series shot by photographer Pieter Hugo of Nigerias version of hollywood.

Galactica: Sabotage is a shot-by-shot remake of the Beastie Boys Sabotage video, using footage from Battlestar Galactica. Heres a side-by-side comparison.

The driver software for the Energizer DUO USB battery charger contains a back door. It permits a remote user full access to your Windows system. According to US-CERT,An attacker is able to remotely control a system, including the ability to list dir...

Cats have toilets. Dogs have toilets. Even rats have toilets... but according to the World Toilet Organization, 2.5 billion *people* worldwide still do not have access to sanitation. Peepoo (YouTube video), developed by Swedish entrepreneur, architec...

Ralph Steadmans Alice in Wonderland. Salvador Dalis Alice In Wonderland.

Droops and 8-balls in this mans army shouldnt take unnecessary chances with their lives. Illustrated by Walt Ditzen. Advice and observations include:A man is mighty tempted to go along in an overcrowded car.It is dangerous to stand in the probable p...

It looked legit and not entirely out of the realm of possibility in todays heated political climate: an anti-gay resolution being introduced in Utah to expel homosexuals from the state. Except that it was an entire, elaborate hoax courtesy of the Yes...

Blosics 2 is a physics game. Throw blocks off the stage by shooting balls at them. There are many types of blocks, there are many types of balls. 30 levels to finish. (flash, musicsound effects optional) Choose the size ball you want to use on the r...

Stray Cats in Tokyo as seen by professional photographers. The group project moved from here, where there are lots more. More from the individual photographers, though not just in Tokyo.

Once upon a time, before boats had motors, the only way to move vessels up the Shennong River (a tributary to the Yangtze River near Badong, Enshi) was for labourers, known as River Trackers, to haul them by hand using heavy ropes along a dangerously...

Disney restyles Rapunzel to appeal to boys. Disney is wringing the pink out of its princess movies.After the less-than-fairy-tale results for its most recent animated release, The Princess and the Frog, executives at the Burbank studio believe they k...

Historian Tony Judt has been the subject of MetaFilter posts before. He has also written an essay on his struggle with ALS that has been debated here. However, it may have taken an article in the mass-market magazine New York to put his race to compl...

What a pretty little outfit, good girl! Look at you, wow, youre not just a pretty face! Now come over here, stand close to me.

Jhonen Vasquez best known for his comic book Johnny the Homicidal Maniac [Google Book] and his Nickelodeon show Invader Zim has decided to post Zim Facts throughout the month of March. Hes done nine so far.[1] [2] [3] [4] [5] [6] [7] [8] [9] Warning...

Erik Malmstrom, veteran, writes an opinion piece for the New York Times about the purpose of war movies Malmstrom talks about The Hurt Locker and The Messenger, as well as the documentary Restrepo. He argues to give the Hollywood films some slack, ye...

Cultivated Play: Farmville

I mean, in these days of indoor plumbing, the toilet is a naturally potent metaphor for everyday repression, for all the bile and rage and memories and sins and other impure thoughts and unclean urges that cant always kept down or flushed away. Every...

Blog: Daily Plays. Reading a play a day and writing about what I read.

Gendercide, or sex-selective abortion aided by female ifanticide, is soberingly common in coutries where a strong cultural and economic preference for male children exists: 100 million women are missing in the Asia-Pacific region, 85 of them in India...

Stefania Rotolo performs live! (single-link incomprehensible YouTube video circa 1979)

Now you can own your own pothole......

The Shannon number? Skewes number? Grahams number? Please. When youre ready to get serious, here are some truly large numbers. (previously, but with dead links)

Feel sorry for the people who never got to see us, he once said. We were good. The Negro Leagues Baseball Museum in Kansas City faces a $200,000 shortfall for 2009. The museum is battling both the recession and its own backers, as new management trie...

The Alban Grimm exhibit, `Text of the Apocalypse as Graphics, displayed at the recent TUG99 meeting in Vancouver, shows what happens when a typographer-cum-graphic artist is introduced to computer programs and finds that inputting code can lead to ou...