Rule 34 is alive and well. Latest example: 9/11 Terror Porn. [NSFW, requires login and as always via]
posted by PostIronyIsNotaMyth at 11:48 PM PST - 71 comments

Barry Bonds has broken the all-time record with the benefit of a controversial technological revolution in the game, derided by traditionalists: The Maple Baseball Bat. Using technology and woodworking techniques pioneered by Sam Bat, Bonds helped develop and popularize the bats that are just as responsible for the advent of the Juiced Ball Era as, well, the other thing.
posted by Slap*Happy at 10:02 PM PST - 192 comments

The Ten Best Bands That Never Existed.
posted by amyms at 8:57 PM PST - 137 comments

The Icelandic coastline. A gallery of photos of the rugged, cold, and beautiful coast of Iceland.
posted by Gamblor at 8:40 PM PST - 32 comments

Just how bad is it Jim? Cramer, no not Kramer, melts down on live TV and tells a very large audience to stop trading. Is the US economy heading toward collapse?
posted by spish at 8:20 PM PST - 135 comments

25 Anonymous Money Confessions A photo essay courtesy of the Personal Finance Advice blog.
posted by LadyBonita at 7:16 PM PST - 16 comments

Floridian, Republican, Representative Bob Allen the latest hypocrite to be arrested for sexual acts that his political persona derided. The difference? This one blames black people for his being caught soliciting a blowjob from an undercover cop.
posted by Kickstart70 at 7:10 PM PST - 200 comments

My Little Dead Dick is the visual diary of photographers Madi Ju of China and Patrick Tsai of the USA. They got together on July 17, 2006, when they both traveled to Macau in order to meet face-to-face after a month of intense internet correspondence.

After nine days, they went back to their own countries, quit their jobs, settled their accounts, and said good-bye to their friends and loved ones to pursue their dreams of a life spent together taking photos.
posted by four panels at 6:54 PM PST - 31 comments

The NickToons Animation Festival (Flash, noise) is back for its fourth year. A new short is shown each night at 10PM (schedule PDF). Most of this year's contestants: Icarus, Sonadora, Bare (no video), Striped, Hominid, Kiwi! (previously), Carried Away, Jose y Maria, Angst, A Peach for the Teach (storyreel only), Freewheel, Mortimer Pigmun and His Time Travelling Chums, Barfy the Pig in a Day in the Park, Process Enacted, Puppet, After Oz, The Little Dictator, and Insomnia.
posted by rollbiz at 5:49 PM PST - 4 comments

Hope on the Battlefield by Lt. Col. Dave Grossman. An article on our "intense resistance to killing other people. A resistance so strong that, in many circumstances, soldiers on the battlefield will die before they can overcome it."
posted by chunking express at 5:23 PM PST - 37 comments

Know who else liked tunes by "subhuman" Jewish and Russian musicians? That's right.
posted by mr_crash_davis at 3:48 PM PST - 36 comments

Data Visualization: Modern Approaches is a Smashing Magazine article examining a variety of increasingly popular or novel information visualization employed on modern websites.
posted by nthdegx at 3:00 PM PST - 18 comments

Science and the Islamic world—The quest for rapprochement. "Internal causes led to the decline of Islam's scientific greatness long before the era of mercantile imperialism. To contribute once again, Muslims must be introspective and ask what went wrong."
posted by homunculus at 3:00 PM PST - 19 comments

Making Sense of Marcel Duchamp - an animated timeline of the artist's life and works.
posted by Burhanistan at 2:22 PM PST - 21 comments

The 9 soap commercials Ingmar Bergman made are a little known part of his oeuvre. Slate's Dana Stevens explains how they came about.
posted by Kattullus at 1:47 PM PST - 5 comments

Legendary competitive eating champion Takeru Kobayashi battles Kodiak bear [youtube]
posted by KokuRyu at 1:37 PM PST - 29 comments

Comedian Louis CK learns about the Catholic Church (NSFW) and explores the wonders of Animation.
posted by ambulance blues at 1:14 PM PST - 17 comments

Statetris is Tetris with European countries or American states as blocks.
posted by goodnewsfortheinsane at 11:53 AM PST - 28 comments

Behold the newest weapon for the Department of Homeland Security: the Puke-Light!
posted by fandango_matt at 10:40 AM PST - 89 comments

Engineering the newest edition to the Archie Universe—Raj Patel
posted by hadjiboy at 8:18 AM PST - 54 comments

"So much for “never again.” So the problem has obviously not disappeared."
Raul Hilberg (1926-2007, NYT obit) explains why he added a chapter on Rwanda to the last edition of The destruction of the European Jews, a work that took him a lifetime and 3 editions to complete, meeting with indifference, then with criticism from those who didn't share his (at the beginning) functionalist view of the Holocaust. Hilberg became involved in other controversies about the Holocaust, but "The Destruction..." remains the "the closest of any work in print to being the Summa of Holocaust studies" (Christopher Browning). Also: Hilberg intervied by Claude Lanzmann in "Shoah" (YT) (previously).
posted by elgilito at 6:59 AM PST - 41 comments

Theory of history by Dr. Gregory Clark in his new book A Farewell to Alms ¹. The English Industrial Revolution was caused by changes in the make-up and behavior of the population, which was caused by natural selection, influenced by cycles of Malthusian booms and busts between 1200 and 1800. The implications for modernizing other nations through institutions such as the World Bank are like " pre-scientific physicians who prescribed bloodletting for ailments they did not understand".
posted by stbalbach at 6:40 AM PST - 67 comments

Musica Excentrica.
posted by hama7 at 6:27 AM PST - 10 comments

The downside of diversity. A Harvard political scientist finds that diversity hurts civic life. What happens when a liberal scholar unearths an inconvenient truth?
posted by srboisvert at 6:11 AM PST - 95 comments

Portraits of rural Russians by the photojournalist Pavel Bezrukov. He is born in 1962, and started with photography as a hobby. Currently freelancing as a photo correspondent for the Moscow-based Orthodox magazine Foma. Some more samples of his work can be found at Orthodoxy Photo.
posted by Harald74 at 4:47 AM PST - 22 comments

Even if you're one of those "I don't like jazz" folks, the iconoclastic multi-instrumentalist Rahsaan Roland Kirk (1936-1977) is probably someone you can dig. For one thing, he wasn't afraid of using a fat backbeat, more akin to soul/R&B than most of the jazz of his time. And how can you say no to a guy who passed out little flutes to his audience members, inviting them to join in, saying "What about a blues in W, in the key of W". Or who played 3 or 4 horns at once, followed by a nose-flute solo? God bless you, Rahsaan Roland Kirk. [more inside]
posted by flapjax at midnite at 4:30 AM PST - 50 comments

Overdrift. A five-minute YouTube video, with dinosaurs and drifting.
posted by tumult at 1:43 AM PST - 32 comments