"Tekeli-li, or Hollow Earth Lives": A huge (comprehensive?) annotated bibliography of Antarctic and hollow earth fiction. Wow. (Thanks, Jonah!)

Image of Virgin Mary found in backyard: The Loudres of Ohio, defining miracles down.

Mosquito ringtones and the extremes of human hearing: Years of going to punk rock shows have wrecked my hearing; above 17,000 Hz, I can't -hear- anything, but it starts giving me a headache.

The Wicker Goat: "You can just hear the Swedish sigh in that headline comma from the AP article, 'Vandals Burn Swedish Christmas Goat, Again.'"

Vision in a Complete Achromat: By Knut Nordby -- I think I read about this in an Oliver Sacks book.

A neural basis for collecting behaviour in humans: "Thirteen subjects exhibited abnormal collecting, characterized by massive and disruptive accumulation of useless objects."

The Giant Burger: Thirty pounds of beef. Does it come with fries?

Companion Records, audio ephemera saved beyond its time: Canadian Christian hippies the New Creation, New Jersey truck driver/folk-singers, acid damaged outsider music, school choirs, and much more. Good stuff.

Rabbi Nachman's Aphorisms on Jewish Living: And cursing! My friend Finn apparently just got cursed to go blind by his Haisidic landlord.

Vehicle to autonomous biped robot conversion for the Mini Cooper r50.: Man alive, if these things discover energon cubes, we're toast.

For sale: Giant British underground bunker: “It was like a set from The Avengers,” said Nick McCamley, author of Secret Underground Cities, who lived locally and first discovered the existence of the site in the 1960s.

Sextette: An Appreciation: In which an 87-year-old Mae West marries a 32-year-old Timothy Dalton, and we are to believe he's one lucky stiff. It's a musical.

Running the Sausage Race: Exciting, even without Randall Simon waiting to kneecap the racers. "As we choke on Polish's dust, the other three of us are neck-and neck-until Italian Sausage makes his move." (via Off the Kuff)

Whales at Marineland learn a disgusting (but clever!) trick.: By puking up fish, they can lure seagulls to their whale-snack-ish demise.

Baltimore's Marching Ravens: My hipster friend Lee has a very unhipsterish hobby.

Mostar, Bosnia, erects statue honoring Bruce Lee: Muslim or Orthodox, Serb or Croat, everyone loves to watch Bruce Lee open up a can of whup-ass. (via Hit and Run)

THIS IS FUN TO MAKE A BLOG ON THE COMPUTER WEBSITE: IT IS AN AWARD!! THE DOG ATE THE MOST MASHED POTATOES!!!

Patrick Byrne, CEO of Overstock.com, loses his mind.: Check out the Aug. 12 webcast. Even if some of what he's saying is true, he just sounds... unhinged. Queeg-esque.

The Patrick Byrne story gets weirder: Accusations of massive conspiracy are one thing, but once an exotic dancer enters the equation, you've got a Cinemax original movie.

Hatebeak/Caninus Split 7": Metal band with Waldo the parrot on vocals, b/w grindcore band with Budgie and Basil the pitbulls on vocals. "No more perfect a novelty 7" has ever existed."

Buy a school on eBay: Only an hour from Cinncinnati! Complete with basketball court! Perfect for your horse farm or third-rate superhero team headquarters!

BenQ LCD Monitor Crazy Arm: This is the monitor they will use in the remake of "Demon Seed". Yeesh.

Congratulations to Plunk Biggio!: They have documented another historic baseball moment. Only 19 HBP to go!

There's nothing as honest as a carnie!: "Attorney General Lisa Madigan filed suit Thursday against a circus that billed itself as Chinese when it appeared in Springfield, but actually featured Caucasian performers wearing silk beanies and black wigs."

Air Force Had Plans to Nuke Moon: Is there an alt.nuke-the-moon the way there's an alt.pave-the-earth?

Fairy Congress - Your Online Fairy Resource: "Humans, fairies, devas, angels and spiritual beings come together to create an outpouring of communication, education, and celebration."

Surviving with Wolves: "Misha was only six years old when her parents were taken away from their home in Belgium to Auschwitz.... Misha crossed Belgium, Germany and Poland on foot alone - until, close to starvation in a vast forest, she was adopted by a family of wolves."

49ers' in-house training video includes lesbian porn, racial slurs, barbs at Newsom: "'You do something controversial, you say something controversial, it will have an impact on this team. So remember, be mindful of your actions.' With that it's back to the topless club..."

Romeo the giant cat: At 33 pounds, that cat could probably take down a cocker spaniel, if it could move faster than "waddle".

Blood Feud: Two men, one bull, six bullets: Weird and sad story, marred slightly by the Robert Frost pseudo-quote the copyeditor used as a subhead (a pet peeve of mine). (via Balloon Juice)

Insider trading in the Harry Potter deathpool?: Bookies are refusing bets from the town where the new Harry Potter book was printed. (Warning: spoilerific!!)

The greatest IMDB entry ever: "Sometimes Credited As: Cat."

Snailgate: How a cartoon character won an election: It's nice to be reminded what a farce collegiate elections are.

Matthew Yglesias' greatest thread ever: I'm thinking he should try stuffing the head with garlic, but that may be zombies and salt. (Bonus points for the 2:48 comment.)

R.I. Police Say Man Offered Steak for Sex: Those Woonsocket boys know how to charm a lady. (via Majikthise)

Clarke American chases the Comic Book Guy market: Poor Aquaman gets dissed again. And is that Comic Sans?

CRYPTOWORLD: Operation Death Worm: "Cryptoworld, a blog style journal of our adventures in Mongolia, looking for the Allghoi Khorkhoi (Deathworm). Extreme Blogging, live from the Gobi Desert." (via Hit and Run)

Baishawan: The jungle-covered remnants of a futuristic community in Taiwan; reminiscent of "The Prisoner"'s Portmeirion after WWIII.

Sewdorky: Makers of fine felted donuts: I never knew I needed one of these until now. Where's the cruller?

"As you can see, I have lot of questions about pork dairy potential.": And other letters to the world's most patient PR drones. (via delicious/redfox)

Museum of Funeral Customs: The Museum of Funeral Customs provides the public with a deeper understanding of the history of American funeral and mourning custom...

Inscape & Outlandishness: On William Barnes and the gainrising of Anglo-Saxon speech. (via Making Light)

Eccentric Genius: Unconventional Contrivances and Machina Arcana: I know many people who really, -really- need a functional, bolt-through-plywood executive desktop ballista.

Malaysia car thieves steal finger: I -know- I saw this movie! That's how Wesley Snipes gets out of the cryojail!

The man who sold the moon.: Next step: Libertarian space utopia! Step after that: Bollywood musical!

The Israeli army considers D&D players a poor security risk.: This is why the Israeli Defense Forces have such poor luck fighting mind flayers.

The Crime-Genius-Marriage connection: Does age make you less likely to prove Fermat's last theorem and/or hold up a liquor store?

The Uncle Liam Show: My uncle is awfully cool, but I never got a music video from him.

Symmes' globe: "Globe used by John Cleves Symmes (1780-1829) to illustrate his theory that the earth is hollow and that the interior, reachable through openings at the Poles, is habitable." Libraries -rule-.

Stupid MSN Maps tricks: Also known as "the most expensive cab ride you'll ever take".

Earth House: Homes for Sale: Buy yourself an underground house (or missile silo).

The golden horagrams of the scale tree: The theoretical works of Eric Wilson, microtonist.

A red letter day in the annals of product placement: Wow. That's.. painfully awkward.

Our Intelligent Companions, the Plants: "There are indestructible cosmic seeds or germs -- monads -- behind the soul's growth in the plant kingdom and in all things, each learning by experience through successive forms on the ladder of evolution." (via Mileece)

Massive Russian insane cat photo vault: All the kitties a certain sekrit site would ever want. (via Succa)

The Galloper Magazine: Europe's online magazine for old showland.: Frost fairs, freak shows, organ grinders, and much much more. (via Ramage)

The Doorknob Thief: A True Story of Construction Sites and Obsession: Alternately, "Nice man George, newsagent on the corner..."

Daniel - Der Zauberer: The worst movie in recent memory, per the IMDB and some 2000 voters.

Blanco's Magic Tails & Dragon Tails: "I am Blanco Tailspinner - an ancient Dragoncat - and this is my friend Earth." Make sure to check out the free coloring book pages.

Endgame IV: Stargate 2003: Martian faces, crop circles, the Templars, and "The Shepherds of Arcadia": it's like the Grand Unified Conspiracy Theory

Theodore Beale: "The Lesser Evil": Oh, man -- and this guy wrote a whole -series- of Christian lances-and-loincloths books?

In the Hall of the Mountain Kings: "One little man's journey into sumo wrestling." (via Alex Golub)

The Robert Heinlein Interview and Other Heinleiniana, by J. Neil Schulman: Given how cripplingly insane the other things by Schulman I've seen floating around the internet are (most notably a few MST3K-ed by Adam Cadre), I can only assume that this is the best book ever.

Girl, 10, used geography lesson to save lives: Next: Using high-school trig to save a family from a burning building.

Kayne West and the Limits of Aporia: I'm not even saying it's wrong. It's just amusing as hell.

Trans-Dniester Republican Bank: "According to the Decree of the President TMR from November 29, 2000 the old names in English Trans-Dniester Moldavian Republic ayd Trans-Dniester Republican Bank." Wow. I hope the country and bank eventually get moose and squirrel.

The Potted Meat Museum: Who could refuse "Our Finest Brand Tripe with Gravy"?

The Murtogh Guiness Collection of Automata: Featuring 700 historic automata and mechanical instruments

Hacking Coke Machines: I always assume that this sort of BBS textfile info is bogus, but this seems to work.

Mystery object orbits earth: Yay! Santa's back! From space!

wombat on skis: I have nothing to say about this except that the wombat sure is tolerant.

The Answers in Genesis Creation Museum: "It seemed like an impossible task, but the Creation Museum team has finally located them -- Methuselah's hands."

The History of Contraception Museum: Mule's earwax, elephant dung, and beaver-testicle tea

BYU Presents: Resources for Overcoming Inappropriate Internet Use: I think of BYU more as a research university than a religious one, but then there's stuff like this. Also, "interesting and inviting"?

Kempa plays with a working Japanese model gramaphone recorder: ...And then discovers that they make Edison cylinder kits as well.

Slate on JFK Reloaded: What could Ted Kennedy find so objectionable?

Local Superheroes: Evildoer! Cower before the might of Head-Butt Man!

Cinemourgue: Chronicling actresses' death scenes. Yeah, I don't know either.

Mecha badger weeps tears of incandescent rage: Preach it, brother.

Marryanamerican.ca: A resource for Americans looking to move north and Canadians looking to get some.

And when I say that there is no Satanism in the British Navy...: "A spokesman for the Royal Navy said: 'We are an equal opportunities employer and we don't stop anybody from having their own religious values.'" (via)

The many targets of Ram Man: I can't believe I wasted my childhood watching this show.

Television issues call for help: You would too, if you had to watch PBS all day.

"The Lonely Doll", a fabulously creepy '50s kids book: Cindy Sherman and Kim Gordon are fans. "As the publisher, I would get letters every day, saying: 'This book is disgusting and terrible. Why did you bring it back?'"

"Three hours with Baby Mamet": Skot of Izzle Pfaff tries his hand at hostage negotiation.

Husky or Maltese Whatever: That's an all-time-great restaurant name.

Ramtha's School of Enlightenment: Warning: MIDI files! If I were a Cro-Magnon warrior from Atlantis, I'd want a better website. (and her elf capes) (via)

Minilimo: The version with a pool provides extra cognitive dissonance.

Damn creepy dolls: That should be the store's name, actually.

We, the kidnapped two-headed albino snark: "'I missed the snake,' Sonnenschein responded. 'I love him.'"

The ritual killing of Canadian rifles: "A symbolic association has been postulated between trade musket brass dragon sideplates and the Northern Iroquoian panther/fire-dragon (meteor) man-being and the water lynx, Mishipizheu, among Algonkian-speaking groups..." (via)

"There are six known different hyperspace library models or 'Omni Dimensional Networks', all of which can be used for data compression or different learning modes.": "Isn't 'Meaningless information' a contradiction in terms ?." Read about Autosophy's revolutionary technology and decide for yourself!

Amazing Revelations timeline: Like a Paul Laffoley poster put together in MacPaint; alternately, it's the religious version of every UI and design "don't" ever conceived.

The Conet Project: Recordings of the mysterious numbers -- coded messages to spies? -- transmitted over shortwave radio throughout Europe for forty years.

"Don't you like to watch two lesbians playing pool?": I hope this comes up during the presidential debates. (via)

Top 10 most ridiculous black metal pics: "The only reason why this photo didn't make #1 is because of the lack of taxidermy." (via)

I've seen this movie, part 2: A 48-hour car chase ends when the pursued vehicle runs out of gas. Insert joke about Nicholas Cage's career here.

I've seen this movie, part 1: Rock-throwing children awaken a 500-pound monster hive full of angry, angry bees.

The zombies of Chernobyl: "The zombie-free Chernobyl scenes are for the opening, in which a rogue ex-CIA agent is seen stealing the world's last five canisters of Trioxyn gas, the lifeblood of the living dead."

The science of the Dim Mak death touch: One thousand steps: deadly! Nine hundred ninety-nine: totally safe! (via)

Barak Obama the Antichrist: "And it saddens me that if a politician plans to influence society positively instead of merely padding his wallet and ego, you immediately assume he's being influenced by Satan, as if servanthood and the demonic were one and the same."

Franke Potente goes to the homecoming dance: Nuclear hottie Franke Potente goes to a dance while a high school exchange student in the U.S. So good! (via)

iPod to universal remote: That's a brilliant hack. (via)

Creation Safaris: "Creation Safaris™, now in our 20th year, take you to unusual and beautiful places where you can have fun, fellowship and worship God while enjoying the Great Outdoors. And while you’re at it, you will learn important evidence for creation and against evolution."

Bow before the giant concrete presidential heads!: Now they live in beautiful Williamsburg, Virginia! (via)

Harry Potter in Attic Greek: It's like a breathtakingly dorky casemod tutorial, only for classical scholars.

Giving new meaning to the term "enforcer": "Danton has been jailed since his arrest April 16 in San Jose, Calif., a day after the San Jose Sharks eliminated the Blues from the playoffs. The Blues released Danton on July 1." And hey, I bet he's looking for a new agent!

Mouse! In beer!: I love the Court TV reenactment-style photos.

Japanese Defense Ministry to publish manga: They also hope to make their annual white paper more interesting to younger Japanese by throwing defense minister Shigeru Ishiba into the Jusenkyo Springs, where he will be cursed to turn into a panda. (via)

The 365 Days project lives!: 365 amateurish, offensive, ill-conceived, and just plain odd MP3s. The Louis Farrakhan calypso tune alone is worth the price of admission. (via)

Driving on the lawn / Sleeping on the roof: "The driver, I found out later, was drunk, from Texas, and had only one arm." Simply an astounding trail of destruction.

The Science Frontiers Sourcebook Project: "The ashen light of Venus; The Martian 'pyramids'; Kinks in Saturn's rings; Continuing debate about the Voyager life-detection experiments; Neptune's mysterious ring...." A series of Fortean anomalies; these look absolutely delightful. (via)

Mutant toddler has giant muscles: Discovery of the mutation in humans may someday lead to treatments for muscular dystrophy and a Chris Claremont-penned mutant preschool massacre.

Canada's Mint is funnier than ours: Although that Sacajewea dollar gag had me going for a while.

"...accused of bludgeoning and dismembering five people in an elaborate extortion racket intended to hasten the second coming of Jesus Christ.": "The culmination of Helzer's plan was to have been an operation codenamed 'Brazil', in which he would send South American orphans to Salt Lake City to kill the 15 elders who run the Mormon church."

Kool-Aid Man's costume is in Hastings, NE: The museum in the inventor's hometown has an exhibit with a "fiber-optic river of Kool-Aid".

Taphophilia: A repository of morbid curiosities: "Thanatology and Taphophile Issues, Cemetery, Funeral Industry and Death Related News." Crank up your Fields of the Nephilim CDs and give it a read. (via)

Walking is for Communistic one-worlders: If John Galt were in charge of urban planning, he, too, would make sure that there were no neighborhood markets or six-block walks. (via)

Window Into Hell: The Images of Children's Toys Today: Finally, it is revealed: Optimus Prime is the Devil, and glamorous, bosomy Barbie is his bride.

Kitchens of the Future: "Her declaration that 'this kitchen doesn't need a woman' captures a central theme of this paper." An astoundingly great linkdump from Anne Galloway.

The Anomalist: "Unexplained Mysteries, Maverick Science, Unorthodox Theories, Strange Talents, Unexpected Discoveries"

Viva Morrissey!: Great piece on the gloomy Smiths' frontman's appeal to Latino audiences. (via)

Helper monkeys: I am so glad that I wasn't just dreaming that these existed.

The Ixion Burlesque Company: "Epic Burlesque Theatre based on Greek Mythology" -- no word if they have a spinning fiery wheel act. (via)

Rezedents Rights & Rispansabilities: A HUD pamphlet mistakenly translated into Jamaican patois instead of Haitian creole. "Dis brouchure briefly liss some ahf yuh muos impowtant rights ahn rispansabilities fi elp yuh fi get di muos owt ah yuh owme." (via)

Impossible objects: Two steps beyond a ship in a bottle.

David Graham's roadside wonders: Family trips to the National Freshwater Fishing Hall of Fame in Hayward, WI, come with free lifetime nightmares for your kids.

Want to buy a nudist camp?: England's longest-running nudist camp is being sold off by the Hemingway family. There's a punchline here somewhere. (via)

Giant concrete Presidential heads: Don't you just want to pinch their giant concrete Presidential cheeks?

Octopus love: Roman suckers and Russian tentacles!

Heavy Little Objects: Cleaning out one's pockets, getting down one's thoughts. (via)

Famous economist's graves: On Th&uum;nen's gravestone is engraved: "A = Ö ap" [The natural wage, A, is the square root of (ap), where p is the worker's product and a is his subsistence requirements.]

Baron Munchausen trading cards: Smoke Little Joker Tobacco and thrill to the exploits of the greatest liar since Herodotus. (via)

Pictures from bejeweled crowning of the Washington Times publisher at Senate office building: "And Moon gives a speech announcing that it's time to recognize him as the Messiah..."

Howard Besser's T-Shirt Database: Man oh man, is this thing cool.

The grocery list collection: "A lot of people cannot spell very well. I try not to make fun of them too much. And some people buy funny combinations of things. That's all." (via)

Taking Tiger Mountain by Strategy: The successful creation of the modern revolutionary Peking opera "Taking Tiger Mountain by Strategy" is a splendid victory for Chairman Mao's revolutionary line on literature and art. (via)

The Luxuriant Flowing Hair Club for Scientists: Say what you will about Stephen Pinker, but you can't argue with his 'do.

Grotesques: "Pope-ass and other monsters..." (via)

The Atlasphere's Ayn Rand Dating Service: SWM ISO attractive railroad executive for fun, LTR in private utopia. No hard drugs, fiat money. Willingness to read 90-page speeches a plus. (via)

Whatever Happened To...?: Your celebrity news source for the 16th minute of fame. (via)

Prom Bombs: Boy howdy. I think #8 is my favorite.

P-Funk mythology: Starchild's nemesis is "Sir Nose D Voidoffunk".... He is the master of the Placebo Syndrome, which causes unFunkiness.

Frump-Frump, Roanoke's elephant: Who, indeed, could ever forget Frump-Frump?

Julian Dibbell wraps up Play Money: He did not quite earn more as a Ultima Online retailer than he earned as a professional writer, but four grand a month isn't anything to sneer at.

Bear in a tree!: It's been hanging around my friend Mark's dad's place, like the world's largest and most perplexed cat.

Thorax cake: Ewwww... Yummy!

Pitchman's progress: I never understood the idea of pitchmen making a living at state fairs until I saw the curator demonstrate the Whip-O-Matic two weeks ago. (see also)

Pigeon Grove, TN: Druggie skulls! Buford Pusser's death car! Bear pits! Bunnyland golf! The musical world of Anita Bryant! This is truly a terrible, wonderful place.

Curt Schilling and Doug Glanville Everquest beef: Possibly my favorite bit of sports-related silliness of the last decade. Scythehands Voxslayer forever! (later followup) (see also)

Miniature stories of the saints: "Once upon a time there was a very beautiful princess. Her name was Clotilde."

Notes from the Kubrick Archive: "As I hold it up by its blood-matted hair, Christiane, Kubrick's widow, walks past the window. 'I found a head!' I say."

A family proposal: This is creepy, but "I am very happy. I would like to share this." is heartbreaking. (via)

Ricky Jay's Radio Journal: This, then, is what they invented the Internet for.

International Male: Those are some sharp, sharp threads.

Nosepulling and shame: "Hardly any account mentions [Andrew] Jackson's nose as the object of either the intended or the actual attack."

World's Largest Collection of World's Smallest Versions of World's Largest Things: A travelling roadside attraction!

Frederick, Maryland: Pornography publisher: It always seemed like such a nice little town!

Johnny Highwaycone: The noble legacy of a pioneer hero. (via)

Canada's Sweeney Todd pigfarm: "Anyone who still has frozen meat from the farm is asked to contact the Missing Women Task Force."

Spalding Gray's body found: I remember how blown away I was by 'Swimming to Cambodia', and I'm too sad to make the obvious cheap joke.

The Museum of Natural and Artificial Ephemerata: Make your own Museum of Jurrasic Technology with common household items!

Britain's best bus shelter: It certainly looks very nice. (via)

Hideous sea creatures: Thanks a lot, Skot. You've ruined trips to the beach for the rest of my life.

Kim Il Jong's chef tells all: "Why can't our cooks make them this way? The aroma of the mugwort is also very nice." (via)

Girlhacker's annual Oscar swag list: The list is as long as an acceptance speech!

The Mikhail Bakhtin Manuscript Smoking Page: "Assuming 1,000 double-sided pages of text, that's 500 smokable sheets."

The Widows' Sons Masonic Motorcycle Riders: These guys may have the most badass t-shirt I've ever seen.

Scholars at the American Academy of Religion Discuss "Jesus Christ, Vampire Hunter": I love academics so much. So very very much. (see also)

Squeezing machine: It might be good for autistic kids, but it makes me think of a hydraulic press.

Female mathematicians who have been known to have teal hair: The Internet constantly demonstrates that it's even odder than I remember.

Mars, or, Misunderstanding: A masterful account of Helene Smith (the Medium from Mars), her Martial exploits, and alien walk-ins today.

Pokia: Bringing cutting-edge 1973 technology to your cellular phone! (via)

Tadano knows he may face fan abuse in major league parks such as Yankee Stadium...: I'll say.

Zarf's pickled Twinkies: "This mostly worked, but there was some cake sludge and some half-dissolved 'creme filling' left floating around, and that really was unappetizing." (via)

Brain sandwiches: "The decision means customers will have to switch to pork brains, which they tend to not like as much because they are smaller and more difficult to work with..." (via)