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I like to watch... A disturbing video combining September 11th scenes, professional sports, and pornography. NOT SAFE FOR WORK. I won't post this otherwise, but maybe they have something to say about voyeurism brought on by mass media exposure...
posted by Samizdata at 10:40 PM PST - 54 comments

Are sweeping generalisations about French 'arrogance' and 'cowardice' really justified? What if Rob had suggested that Satchel take a more aggressive 'German' stance on Bucky's beanbag borrowing antics?
posted by obiwanwasabi at 10:24 PM PST - 23 comments

I guess now we've got everyone's opinion on terrorism. As much as I love Kiss, I don't know that this is who I'd consult at this particular juncture. I guess his opinion is as valid as the next guy's though. Perhaps he could breathe fire at Al Qaeda for us, I dunno.
posted by jonmc at 8:18 PM PST - 14 comments

Niki Lauda, three-time world F1 champion, took the wheel of a new Jaguar Formula 1 car after claiming that today's F1 cars could be driven "by a monkey". Unfortunately for Niki, after shooting off his mouth like that, the results were, well, predictable.
posted by mr_crash_davis at 8:10 PM PST - 12 comments

President Bush fainted briefly in the White House residence Sunday after choking on a pretzel while watching the Baltimore-Miami playoff game on tv. Let the one liners begin...
posted by brian at 6:03 PM PST - 98 comments

O: What sounds like a minature smoke alarm with a dying battery and has a tongue half as long as itself?
posted by y2karl at 5:44 PM PST - 17 comments

writingclasses.com "The largest private creative writing school in the United States" they claim. Everything is covered, yet nothing on weblogs. How is it possible.
posted by Voyageman at 4:05 PM PST - 16 comments

General Musharraf of Pakistan gave an important address re: terrorism and Kashmir yesterday He also banned 5 extremist groups. It seems have been fairly well received in both India and Pakistan. Though the extremist sections of Pakistani polity attacked the speech, one hopes that the biggest deployment of troops on the Indo-Pakistan border since the 1971 war days will start to ease up now. (More inside)
posted by justlooking at 3:35 PM PST - 8 comments

If you're anything like me (i.e, easily amused), you'll dig this piece of throwaway flash. Its Buffy's swearing keyboard, so don't play it at work, mmmkay?
posted by jcterminal at 3:34 PM PST - 14 comments

Break the Chain has all kinds of nifty resources for stopping the neverending flux of chain mail wandering through your e-mail box, though if you're like me, you'll probably just read through the chain archives for their amusement. A nice companion to Snopes for your hoax-debunking needs.
posted by headspace at 3:15 PM PST - 0 comments - Post a Comment

We'll have to settle for this until flying cars and transport tubes show up. George Jetson would (or will) be proud. Now, how to slip roofie into one of these?
posted by sharksandwich at 2:57 PM PST - 5 comments

Which Kevin Smith male or female are you?
posted by Bezuhin at 11:20 AM PST - 45 comments

"Enrongate" in a nutshell. Our own Oliver Willis has compiled a very thorough catalogue of clips from the Enron scandal, dating all the way back to April 2000. If you haven't been following all along, it's a great resource to catch up.
posted by jpoulos at 9:20 AM PST - 34 comments

Creative use of Wal-Mart receipts. Some of the stuff this guy buys, I didn't even know was for sale, let alone at Wal-Mart. Link from FunJunkie.
posted by bmckenzie at 8:59 AM PST - 6 comments

MPs demand the BBC reinstates the British National anthem at the end of normal programming They'll be wanting a return to the three day week and rationing next...
posted by feelinglistless at 5:22 AM PST - 16 comments

Got a problem ? Sure you do. Everyone does. The Union of International Associations has compiled a World Problems Encyclopedia, CD-ROM and now a free online database [sign in as guest] complete with strategies, discussion, and suggested solutions to over 30,000 world problems. Issues range from Abbatoirs to Zombies. The problem of assembling a semi-objective collection of problems is even covered. Found via the Global Ideas Bank.
posted by jessamyn at 2:34 AM PST - 9 comments

Carkan Moil is a novelist. His latest work is Boils: Tales of Tainted Mother's Milk, currently sporting a 4-star review on Amazon. Quite frankly the scariest looking website I've ever seen.
posted by owillis at 12:21 AM PST - 10 comments