Awesome new weapon in the fight against drunk driving

Talking urinal cakes.

How Do We Know Smartphones Endanger Planes?

Popular Mechanics.

Where Used Clothing Goes

Charities long ago passed the point of being able to sell all of our wearable unwanted clothes.

Russian Nuclear Launch Code Backup Procedure

A sledgehammer.

From 1954, toaster bacon

Reddi-bacon.

Europe's 'Over-Indebtedness' Roadmap To Catastrophe

At ZeroHedge, charts, links and comments.

Scientific American kicks a hornet's nest

Lipstick effect: women in tough economic times tart themselves up.

Get compensated for bone marrow

Donation through a process similar to blood donation, called peripheral blood stem cell apheresis, can be compensated because those cells are no longer regarded as organs or organ parts as defined in the National Organ Transplant Act.  That act bans compensation.

Wednesday links

The world's most expensive beers.

Human-sized Hot Wheels double loop track.

When Did Archers Start Splitting Arrows?

Do You Own The Space Above Your House?

Overloaded vehicles and people.

Excellent mud and grass sculptures.

Germany: circumcising a child under the age of consent is a crime

Religious beliefs of the parents notwithstanding.

via Instapundit.

CNN op-ed: We might not be able to handle the truth on Fast & Furious

...so let’s not be “nosy.”

Crispy Tauntaun

The new Epic Meal Time video is Star Wars themed.  Language NSFW

ZeroHedge: Charting How Everything Changed In 2008

Informative set of charts.

World's ugliest dog

Prize winner.

Time mag: Romney Too Focused on Economy

The media palace guards are unhappy.

Green company creates 3 jobs in 3 years, gets another $80 million from DOE

Cellulosic ethanol is the same nonexistent biofuel that the EPA is fining oil refiners for not using.

EPA Greenhouse-Gas Rules Upheld by U.S. Appeals Court

Hey, the science is settled!

First Ever MRI Video Shows Childbirth from the Inside

"Expulsion phase".

How to Weaponize Your Trash

Pepper spray from old chili powder, bolas from cat food cans and batteries, and even a full blown crossbow from a broom handle and old kitchen gloves.

Butt Acne Clearing Lotion

Clear your rear.

If I'd ever given any thought to this, which I haven't, I would have assumed that the same stuff that worked on your other cheeks would work for this problem, too.

UK will use supermarket card data to check your eating habits

People who buy too much alcohol, fatty foods or sugary drinks would be targeted with 'tailored' health advice under plans being considered by the Coalition.

With more children than ever dangerously overweight, parents could also be contacted if their bills show they are not giving their offspring a balanced diet from their weekly shop.

Cutting obesity-related illness would help the NHS save billions.

Excellent essay by Spengler: Do dictators always fail?

Will China will fail because it is not a democracy?  Don't count on it.

Gorgeous fantasy photo series

These are absolutely beautiful.

The photographer's web site.

Monday links

Know your vampire hunter - good infographic.

History of the dinner fork.

7 Futurama Gadgets That Are Nearly a Reality.

Picasso superheroes.

Van Gogh's Starry Night recreated with 7,000 falling dominos.

The Hokey Pokey - Shakespeare's version.

Did You Ever Wonder Whether Rats Laugh?

The Economic History of the Last 2,000 Years in 1 Little Graph

Wait, India was by far the biggest economy at the dawn of AD?

No, your ex isn't on the list

The 9 weirdest animal penises on Earth.

Lincoln killed vampires...

Secret Histories of Other Presidents.

HHS Goes On Massive Spending Binge Before SCOTUS Ruling

$2.7 billion since oral arguments ended on March 28.

Europeans Who Get Sick on Vacation Can Legally Retake Those Days Off

Not The Onion.

Tropical Storm Debby Forms In Gulf

WooHoo!  I wanna turn into a hurricane!

Universal Turing Machine in 100 punchcards

On the occasion of Alan Turing's 100th birthday.

With Traditional Schooling Increasingly Obsolete, How To Learn Without Being Taught

Interesting article at Townhall, via Lucianne.

Bill Maher, Rachel Maddow, And Reason’s Nick Gillespie Have Epic Showdown Over Fast & Furious

Mediaite

via Newsalert.

Pink Floyd: Story of "Wish You Were Here"

Trailer.

EPA fines oil refiners for failing to use nonexistent biofuel

Links and comments at Hotair.

Newly discovered Chinese mushroom turns out to be an abandoned sex toy

Maybe NSFW.

Texas bank to launch constitutional challenge to Dodd-Frank

Hotair has comments and links.

Tyrannosaurus Skeleton Seized by Homeland Security

Why Homeland Security?

Thursday links

1950s Space Art.

The Hanging of the Lincoln Assassination Conspirators in Pictures.

Did This 15-Year-Old Just Change Cancer Treatment?

Bra Holster.

HD Slinky Slow-Mo.

Red cars more likely to be hit by bird poo.

Read more here: http://blogs.herald.com/dave_barrys_blog/#storylink=cpy

Dangerous Synergy Between Nanny State And Universal Health Care

Dr. Paul Hsieh writing at Forbes.

Via Dr. Hsieh's Geekpress blog, which I highly recommend.

Great picture

UFO-shaped object found at bottom of Baltic Sea

Interesting.

Army’s Cupcake Tank Fires Desserts

In the Pentagon courtyard.  Video and article.

via Instapundit.

Woman, 63, 'becomes PREGNANT in the mouth' with baby squid after eating calamari

Ick.

Sweden wants to ban men from urinating while standing

Hard to imagine how they'd enforce this.

Friday links

‘Miracle’ beer vitamin can help keep you skinny.  

14 Spectacular Designs Created in Snow.

Why Do We Say 'Hmm' When Thinking?

The Complete History of Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles.  And in the history category, here's the history of the broom. 

Strange Medieval illuminations.

Nerf Gun Painting and Modding.

Must read: O'Care's Secret History

WSJ: How Big Pharma colluded with the White House at the public's expense.

Poll: Which 1st-generation cybernetic enhancement would you choose?

Advanced optics and memory enhancement are in the lead.

Caterpillar looking for replacements for striking workers

It has "exhausted the negotiations process."

Saudi’s Got Talent – No Singing, Dancing or Women

Competitors will be permitted to perform religious chants, recite poems and engage in sports events.

Commerce Sec'ry in Felony Hit and Run

Poss medical condition?  Bryson hit 2 cars 3 times, and was found unconscious behind the wheel of his Lexus.

On This Day in 1964, Democrats Filibustered the Civil Rights Act

Leading the Democrats was Senator Robert Byrd (D-WV). Byrd, who got into politics as a recruiter for the Ku Klux Klan, spoke against the bill for fourteen straight hours.

Huh

A man who was intoxicated and masturbating to pornography when he drove a stolen car through the crime scene tape surrounding the homicide of a teen-age boy last year will not have to register as a sex offender.

Read more here: http://blogs.herald.com/dave_barrys_blog/#storylink=cpy

Mossad Agents: Obama Lying About Stuxnet

...to boost his re-election campaign.

"Yet my Israeli sources understand the sensitivity and the timing of the issue and are not going to be dragged into a battle over taking credit. “We know that it is the presidential election season,” one Israeli added, ”and don’t want to spoil the party for President Obama and his officials."

Essential Guns, Gadgets, and Gear of Spec Ops

Popular Mechanics.

Somali Terrorists Offer 10 Camel Reward For Obama

Only 10?

New Preventative Drug Would Kill People Before They Get Alzheimer's

"Preliminary research also suggests Proneva may be equally effective at preventing cancer, AIDS, and heart attacks."

A couple of D-Day links

The Gear, Gadgets and Weaponry of a D-Day Paratrooper.

Before and After D-Day: Rare Color Photos.

The other (Queen Victoria's) Diamond Jubilee

1897 photos and film.

R.I.P. Ray Bradbury

The author of Fahrenheit 451 and The Martian Chronicles died this morning.

Wednesday links

Gallery of photos circa 1870: How Wild West Really Looked.

What do spelling-bee winners do when they grow up?

Questions Kids Always Ask About Animals, and the answers.

The catcopter, and a news story about it.

Google's World Wonders Project offers 360-degree views of 132 historic sites.

10 Uses for the Swiss Army Survival Tampon.

Erupting Urinal Soaks House Press Gallery

It couldn't have happened to a nicer group.  ;-)

4 men and 2 women sentenced to death for dancing at Pakistan wedding

“staining the honour” of their families.

Woman faints at Passport Office after telepathic sex attack by elderly man

Don't you hate it when this happens?

Reason to homeschool #n (where n is some large number)

Graduates receive diplomas with 'education' spelled wrong

Read more here: http://blogs.herald.com/dave_barrys_blog/#storylink=cpy

Rub some bacon on it

Excellent video.

When Did Free Speech Become Illegal

Selective punishments for thoughtcrime in the UK.

Friday links

Assisted rhinoceros reproduction.

When Rivers Collide: 10 Incredible Confluences Around the World.

Video - the cat/buttered toast experiment.

Precariously Leaning Towers of the World- The other ones, not the one in Pisa.

There is an old person smell, scientists say.

Does Hemingway's advice "write drunk, edit sober" work?

History of Human-Powered Cranes.