Apologies if you've seen it before.

Watching this without sound makes it a kinda-cute kitty video. Add volume and it just becomes weird.

http://www.npr.org/blogs/allsongs/2007/11/best_song_ive_heard_all_week.html

Some highlights of an art exhibit--I thought they were really interesting:

Running the Numbers ( Read more... )

or scrabble haters, it's funny either way:

http://www.zefrank.com/theshow/archives/2006/11/112706.html

I'm a sucker for this kind of thing.

America by the Numbers

There is a whole article about it, but you can skip it and go play with the fun maps and statistics instead:

Population Distribution
Religious Viewpoints (not denominational)
Religious Denomination Distribution
race, birth rate, immigration, population, etcAlso some good stats on how we ( Read more... )

Will Clean Bathrooms for Food

CAMBRIDGE, England (AP) -- A museum visitor shattered three Qing dynasty Chinese vases when he tripped on his shoelace, stumbled down a stairway and brought the vases crashing to the floor, officials said Monday.

I am a sucker for end-of-year wrap-ups, the word zeitgeist, and google in general, so how could I not share this?

Google Zeitgeist

During flu season, never let anyone lick your keyboard.

Email Time Capsule

I thought this was kind of a cool idea. Not that I've figured out what I would want to say to a future self.

Courtesy of Joel Achenbach:

A primer on the laws governing non-truthful communication under oath

Good stuff.