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Invasion of the Brood - The 17-year cicadas are about to emerge in force
posted by y2karl at 10:32 PM PST - 18 comments

HOLY GRAIL FOUND AT LAST. In Yorkshire, amongst sheep. Tastes pretty good.
posted by Shane at 6:43 PM PST - 11 comments

Meet Anton Chekov - The famous Russian playwright is now appearing at your local Barnes & Noble.
posted by Space Coyote at 6:07 PM PST - 18 comments

Interactive Philosophy Games :: Construct a God, explore your morals, take a new look at what it means to be alive, plus Shakespeare vs. Britney Spears. Or, you can just read it for the articles.
posted by anastasiav at 5:44 PM PST - 13 comments

Osama bin Lotto [Flash.] What's your bet on when bin Laden will be captured? Some oddsmakers suggest the last ten days of July. I think the winner should get 22 pounds of tinfoil, and the runner-up some cologne.
posted by homunculus at 5:12 PM PST - 11 comments

The Power of Good Questions - what the White House press corps could learn from the methods of interviewing mastermind John Sawatsky.
posted by mr.marx at 2:07 PM PST - 14 comments

The Human Face of Pedophilia (A Pedophile Unmasked). "I am not afraid of who or what I am, because I have nothing to hide. I have always abided by the laws of the countries in which I have resided--even the laws with which I have not agreed. I have no desire to hurt or take advantage of anybody. I invite any others who share my ethos and my commitment to refuting the onslaught of disinformation about us to join me on this site."
posted by reklaw at 1:50 PM PST - 114 comments

To all who wondered about this Man Vs. Grizzy -- the answer needed this grizzly bear suit from ebay . The thread, by the way, was one of the funniest Ask MeFi threads I've ever read. And the bearsuit? Well, that's just crazy-insane.
posted by filmgeek at 12:58 PM PST - 21 comments

Frontline Photoblogs. Images direct from the troops in Iraq. Demolished Hummer. Night Vision. Chopper Dust. Barrel of Monkeys. Plus Albanian Commandos!
posted by srboisvert at 12:56 PM PST - 7 comments

International Terrorism at a 35 year low, says U.S. Department of State. So - does that mean that the war on terror is being won? (via Anxiety Culture)
posted by Pericles at 12:35 PM PST - 37 comments

Vasil "Chuck" Bodak, Al Gavin, the poet Tom Smario, the great Jacob "Stitch" Duran: Legendary Cutmen.
posted by dfowler at 11:37 AM PST - 2 comments

More Prison abuse. How un-American! Inmates were raped, starved and beaten. Some beaten to death, forced to perform oral sex on other prisioners... The list goes on and on. But this didn't happen in Iraq; it happens in America every day. How un-American, indeed.
posted by eperker at 11:08 AM PST - 44 comments

The Great American Feud. Hatfield - McCoy timeline and photo gallery. 2003 VA news report on a truce between descendants of both families. Also, Congress has appropriated nearly $500,000 to improve feud sites for tourism. You can even help one of the families win a Reunion Marathon this June.
posted by mcgraw at 9:59 AM PST - 9 comments

Forklift training video. Poor Claus just can't get the hang of this furshlugginer contraption. WMV file, German language--things start getting interesting around 2:30. (via, via)
posted by adamrice at 8:26 AM PST - 23 comments

Local news gets interesting. Meet my new hero! (.wmv file-- only a few seconds long but NSFW.) I'd elaborate, but I don't want to wreck it.
posted by Mayor Curley at 6:22 AM PST - 34 comments