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Get Drunk Not Fat. Get Drunk Not Broke. [more inside]
posted by battlebison at 11:15 PM PST - 100 comments

UK adoption agencies are reporting "huge numbers of calls from 'deeply distressed' adoptive parents whose children have been contacted" through Facebook and other social networking sites, in violation of the traditional, confidential reunion process between birth parents and their offspring who have been placed with other families. Full report from Channel 4. [more inside]
posted by zarq at 8:05 PM PST - 45 comments

Die anen foan noch Ibitza die ondren noch Udine
Wir bleiben im Parkbad machen Party in Kabiene
Hallo geile Biene gemma no a bissal schwimmen
i brauch nur mei Handtuch no des in der Kabiene drinnen

Wiener Hip-hop? Vollig Geil! [more inside]
posted by dunkadunc at 6:03 PM PST - 34 comments

Mark Twain wrote an extensive memoir, but stipulated that it not be published until 100 years after his death. This November it will be published.
posted by borkencode at 5:07 PM PST - 65 comments

For Us Surrender Is Out of the Question. "Living with the crazy, fearless young men who risk life and limb to document Burma's genocide."
posted by homunculus at 3:25 PM PST - 20 comments

On the cusp of the long-awaited series finale of Lost, people are understandably confused. Fortunately there are plenty of ways to catch up, from the fan compendium Lostpedia to the 2-hour ABC recap tonight at 7:00 EST to YouTube summaries of Seasons 1-5 from ABC (in 8:15) and from costumed fans (in five minutes). As for longtime fans, why not reminisce by revisiting the show's infamous bookends -- the artfully inscrutable scenes which introduce or conclude each season? Look inside for these and more, along with a cavalcade of interesting fan videos and other fun stuff. [Warning: Spoilers (for everything but the series finale) inside] [more inside]
posted by Rhaomi at 12:36 PM PST - 1195 comments

Read These on Your Death Bed: Helen Vendler on last poems by James Merrill and Wallace Stevens.
posted by puny human at 11:36 AM PST - 33 comments

Oil spill booming 101. Good stuff starts around 1:55. NSFW for very, very, very naughty language.
posted by lazaruslong at 10:59 AM PST - 157 comments

Goofy-yet-mournful tribute to LOST, which (sob!) ends its 6-year run tonight. [SLYT]
posted by lunasol at 10:45 AM PST - 43 comments

Why Ray Bradbury made me want to write, by Neil Gaiman
posted by Artw at 10:29 AM PST - 79 comments

Yes as a matter of fact, 50,000 new films a year is a very good thing [more inside]
posted by philip-random at 10:03 AM PST - 29 comments

Armen Keteyian of CBS News bought four copiers for $300 a piece (video link). He found a great deal of personal data on the copiers' hard drives, easily accessible using free software one could find on the Internet. [more inside]
posted by reenum at 7:05 AM PST - 62 comments

WE HAVE DECIDED NOT TO DIE [previously]
posted by oinopaponton at 7:01 AM PST - 34 comments

When Gladys and Harold Degree pulled the siding off their Colchester, VT home, they made a surprising discovery--five large, full-color posters from an 1883 visit by the Forepaugh Circus. Conservators at the Northeast Document Conservation Center made another surprising discovery underneath--posters for Forepaugh's rivals, the John B. Doris Circus. The newly conserved posters are on display at the Shelburne Museum through October 24th. (via)
posted by Horace Rumpole at 6:42 AM PST - 26 comments

The Art and Science of Growing Vegetables Upside Down
posted by Xurando at 5:41 AM PST - 21 comments

Forget Kittinger's freefall from space at 102,800 feet, now Felix Baumgartner is preparing for a 120,000-foot supersonic fall. Of course Red Bull is involved as the project is named Red Bull stratos. [more inside]
posted by dabitch at 5:07 AM PST - 36 comments