Robo-Dump A device which simulates that guy over in the Sales cubes who usually doesn't drink coffee but had 3 cups over lunch.
posted by scarabic at 11:45 PM PST - 14 comments

Raw video footage from the US military offensive in Fallujah.
posted by Keyser Soze at 11:19 PM PST - 93 comments

Women of 1970's Punk from Rockin Rina. Lene Lovich! Poly Styrene! The Waitresses!
posted by thatwhichfalls at 10:52 PM PST - 14 comments

This week's addition to the "Japanese People no nuts, they craaaayzy!" cottage industry. Hot off the heels of the Boyfriend Arm Pillow, your boyfriend can now wrap his other arm around some hot heels. Yes, it's the Girlfriend Lap Pillow. The only thing I can think of right now is that it looks uncomfortably angled for head use. Oh, and that it's completely insane.
posted by Stan Chin at 8:35 PM PST - 23 comments

For 60 years the skeletal remains of more than 200 people, discovered in 1942 in a remote Himalaya region, have puzzled historians, scientists and archaeologists. Now they think they know what killed them around AD 840. "The only plausible explanation for so many people sustaining such similar injuries at the same time is something that fell from the sky".
posted by stbalbach at 7:30 PM PST - 13 comments

A Conversation with Anatol Lieven, Senior Fellow, Carnegie Endowment for Peace and author of America, Right Or Wrong - An Anatomy of American Nationalism, of which The nationalism thing is a review. In related March Of Folly news, Letter From Iraq: Out On The Street by Jon Lee Anderson with accompanying interview How Iraq Came Undone. At one bottom line: The Faces of The Fallen.
posted by y2karl at 3:18 PM PST - 4 comments

Tyler Cowen on Social Security Privatization.
He links to the opinions of Arnold Kling, Brad DeLong, Jane Galt, Matthew Yglesias, and Ed Prescott.
posted by trharlan at 12:09 PM PST - 21 comments

Truly mind blowing! First, you must follow the rules. Watch this short video. You are only allowed to watch it once. Seriously, do not cheat! In the video you will see a group of basketball players, some in white and some in black passing two balls around. Your goal is to count how many times the ball is passed by those wearing white shirts. It’s that simple. Remember, count just the passes of the ball by those wearing white. Once the movie is over, write down the number of passes you have counted, Do not watch the video again-- proceed to step two. (via)
posted by limitedpie at 11:02 AM PST - 131 comments

Latter Day Taints - DJ Riko - with bonus points for using tracks like Arnold Schwarzenegger - Gator Lodge & dialogue from Miami vice - this guy takes the bastard pop mixups another step forward. He also makes his own remixes to go alongside the DJ mixes (the Bangles with the Rolling Stones with Fleix da Housecat anyone?) And guess what? Just in time for the holiday season....two Christmas mash-ups to enjoy. These links are direct to MP3's
posted by mattr at 10:31 AM PST - 5 comments

The Open Source Order of the Golden Dawn.
posted by homunculus at 10:21 AM PST - 6 comments

Teen Chicago. History and recollections of.
posted by plep at 10:19 AM PST - 1 comments

Superman is a dick. So is Batman.
posted by darukaru at 10:14 AM PST - 29 comments

Macabre Creation -- art with an eye for detail (favourite)
posted by andrew cooke at 10:08 AM PST - 7 comments

They called me ‘Crack Baby’ - An issue of the foster care youth magasine Represent (March/April 2004) takes on the media myths and realities of being the child of an addict. [via a&ldaily and PY]
posted by jb at 10:04 AM PST - 3 comments