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“Please, Dave!”

Via Feministing, a vintage print ad letting you know what will happen to your marriage if you don’t take care of yourself down there.

Amazon Women on the Moon

For your perusal, a multitude of B-movie title screenshots. Mostly because I wanted to make a biscuit. (via BoingBoing)

The deed is done

Some readers — notably this one, this one and this one — thought this day would never come.
After the catastrophe of discovering its soft top leaked like Aldrich Ames, after the horror of finding the top wouldn’t go up and down properly, after the fright of the ill-fitting valve cover, I have finally seen the [...]

All in

Back when I lived in Washington, Stella and I used to join a few friends for poker evenings. We’d get a bottle of scotch, a pack of cards and some poker chips, and spend a couple of hours chatting and playing Texas Hold ‘em. These evenings were usually more about conversation than about serious cards, [...]

For your browsing pleasure

1. Shaquille O’Neal’s Twitter feed.

2. Life Magazine’s photo archives.

3. Star Wars fan film made by active duty U.S. sailors off the coast of Japan.
4. Ten fascinating last pictures taken.

5. Hard-core knitting.

6. Vintage space-age illustrations.

India

Scenes from a business trip:

(Click here, here or here for an explanation of photo 1.)

Thursday favorites: Signs from a revolution

Tonight in West Hollywood, a few thousand people gathered to protest the Prop 8 result and let off some steam. This wasn’t your usual feel-good rally: people are angry.

(The “chickens” reference is to an animal-rights proposition that passed on Tuesday.)
The crowd blocked the intersection of Santa Monica Blvd. and San Vicente…
…then moved down the street [...]

It’s now or never

It’s now or never, Great Whatsiters. Let’s make history today!
I’m sure I don’t even have to say this, but please, please, please vote. Even if you aren’t feeling well. Even if the lines stretch around the block. Even if you have a crazy deadline at work. And especially if you are a California voter who [...]

Campaign foto fun pak!

Hey, kids! Tired of fretting over the presidential race? Me too! Ready for some fun with campaign photos? I thought so!
Which of these photos from the campaign are real? And which ones are fake? Can you tell the difference?

1. (a) Is this a real photo of Barack Obama’s family? 1. (b) And are they really [...]

Thursday Favorites: Google 2001

In honor of its 10th anniversary, Google has made available its oldest search index, from January 2001. Meaning, you can search here and find exactly — and only — the web pages that were available on that subject at that time.

If you 2001-Google “Paris Hilton,” for example, you get 1,440 hits, nearly all of which [...]