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These "track boards," or "fix push" boards, were initially developed to be raced in the velodrome, and differ from traditional skateboards in one major way: the rider can never coast. A brief documentary on the increasingly popular fix-push skateboard culture and its roots in San Francisco's Mission district. [more inside]
posted by whir at 9:38 PM PST - 55 comments

"This film is so bad that I feel compelled to make a spoiler-laden list of its most laughably terrible parts rather than review it." - Christopher Orr reviews spoils M. Night Shyamalan's "The Happening" to save people from having to watch it. The film is getting the worst reviews of Shyamalan's career. Which is saying something.
posted by crossoverman at 8:03 PM PST - 260 comments

Pig lost! Boss say that it Grunk fault. Say Grunk forget about closing gate. Maybe boss right. Grunk not remember forgetting, but maybe Grunk just forget. Boss say Grunk go find pig, bring it back. Him say, if Grunk not bring back pig, not bring back Grunk either. Grunk like working at pig farm, so now Grunk need find pig. [more inside]
posted by not_on_display at 3:37 PM PST - 37 comments

Accidental Astrophysicists: "They started with algebra and ended up learning about gravitational lensing (PDF)." [Via linkfilter]
posted by homunculus at 3:35 PM PST - 22 comments

Cyd Charisse passed away today at 86. Part of the MGM Golden Age, she first started out in minor roles usually as a dancer (1:52). It wasn't until the Gotta Dance routine with Gene Kelly in Singin' in the Rain did she begin to get meatier roles. [more inside]
posted by spec80 at 2:58 PM PST - 49 comments

The Bicycle Tutor is a site with lots of video tutorials designed with a sole purpose; to teach you how to fix your own bicycle. [via mefi projects]
posted by Effigy2000 at 2:46 PM PST - 29 comments

"Patriotic" and Republican Products at Republican Market.
posted by mrducts at 2:27 PM PST - 123 comments

Dogs in wigs
Dogs in wigs
Dogs in wigs
Dogs in wigs
Dogs in wigs
This is a little weird.
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posted by The Esteemed Doctor Bunsen Honeydew at 2:11 PM PST - 21 comments

The National Traffic Scorecard ranks the 100 most-congested metropolitan areas in the United States. Number one? Los Angeles, naturally. [more inside]
posted by backseatpilot at 1:23 PM PST - 53 comments

Via The Friendly Atheist and the New York Times, this blog post and this article explain two instances of a very, very unsettling new phenomenon. [more inside]
posted by kldickson at 12:41 PM PST - 93 comments

How to nap, a cheat sheet from the Boston Globe. Via [more inside]
posted by jbickers at 12:25 PM PST - 30 comments

A major new release: Firefox 3 is now out in your language. (RC3 is said to be identical to the Final 3.0.0.0 version). Top 10 Reasons Why You Should Upgrade to Firefox 3. Firefox 3 Versus IE 8 Beta An opposing view: Hold Off on Firefox 3 (the chicken!). Alternative view? Flock catches up with Firefox 3. PS: (As you might expect from something expected to set a World Record for number of downloads today, he Mozilla sites are currently getting crushed, apparently ).
posted by spock at 10:57 AM PST - 245 comments

Will Wright's Spore creature creator free trial, mac and PC. Video demo.
posted by Dave Faris at 10:50 AM PST - 97 comments

Tony Schwartz passed away on June 15. [more inside]
posted by ddaavviidd at 10:23 AM PST - 8 comments

Are you allergic to WiFi? Some residents of Sante Fe, NM certainly think they are and they want to take away municipal WiFi to sate their delusions.
posted by socalsamba at 9:49 AM PST - 98 comments

Have you ever wondered what a real IPA tasted like after the long, hot journey to India? Pete Brown found out. [more inside]
posted by uncleozzy at 9:31 AM PST - 53 comments

Keith Law's Ten Common Home Cooking Mistakes. Law, better known for his sports writing, lists ten pitfalls the home chef can fall into and how to avoid them.
posted by robocop is bleeding at 9:17 AM PST - 75 comments

Earlier this year, the US Fish and Wildlife service opened an inquiry into the possibility of adding all snakes of the genera Boa, Python and Eunectes to the Injurious Species List. [more inside]
posted by WinnipegDragon at 8:32 AM PST - 11 comments

Blessed be Baconhenge.... (via)
posted by Kronos_to_Earth at 8:25 AM PST - 15 comments

Lets play the Album Cover Game! [Flash]
posted by KevinSkomsvold at 7:23 AM PST - 27 comments

Le réseau - Starting in the late 19th century, Belgian Paul Otlet envisioned the basics of a human powered Wikipedia and Google. He created a 12 million item database on index cards and accepted queries via mail or telegraph. The article describes his work and the Mundaneum museum in his honor. Be sure to watch the video. There is a full documentary on Otlet as well.
posted by Argyle at 7:15 AM PST - 8 comments

The Girl Effect.
posted by sveskemus at 7:07 AM PST - 61 comments

GrifBall! Red Vs. Blue's Sarge and Caboose introduce the rules. A sample match: Bungie Vs. RvB. Context: Since the release of online multiplayer first-person shooter Halo 3, Bungie have allowed players to customise maps with the placement of objects, weapons, spawn points etc. using the Forge feature. Combined with customisable rule sets, unusually innovative custom games are possible. [more inside]
posted by nthdegx at 6:16 AM PST - 6 comments

The hyperbolic crochet coral reef has come to London. [more inside]
posted by chuckdarwin at 4:03 AM PST - 14 comments

Homosexual brain resembles that of opposite sex. As announced yesterday in the Swedish Newspaper Dagens Nyheter, researchers at the Stockholm Brain Institute have published the results of a study conducted using PET scanning showing that homosexual men showed brain similarity with heterosexual women in their amygdala connections, which process certain emotions, as did homosexual women and straight men. [more inside]
posted by three blind mice at 3:19 AM PST - 88 comments