Glenn Fleishman says,

My friend and graphic designer extraordinaire Brian Wu has mashed up a bad cultural trend with a political one in creating this shirt: it refers to diethylene glycol (a contaminant found in Chinese-exported toothpaste and cough syrup). This plays off the "tattoo ideograms on yourself even though you don't know what they mean" meme. And it's a cool shirt.

Link

Designer James Piatt, whose work we've blogged here on BoingBoing before, writes in to share word of something new that is sure to win a girl new friends at airport screening lines. James says:

One of my new handbags is the Pursuader that resembles a machinegun with a cel phone compartment in the clip. The other is the Chesterton. Both bags are consructed with a process I developed by interlocking laser cut leather. There is no stitching.

This link contains a gallery with glamour photography of the new bags. I haven't decided if the photos are anti or pro-totalitarianism. The first shot is of a military parade of girls sporting Pursuaders and the second involves a sexy girl posing in a pile of potatoes. The submarine pictures are also fun.

Links to detail pages for each bag: Pursuader ($289), Chesterton ($220). BB readers have written in the past with tales of being stopped by law enforcement when they carried Mr. Piatt's brass knuckle handbags ($75, also shown in this image set), and I don't doubt that the new designs might be unwise to wear in any number of circumstances. Proceed with caution.

Previously on BoingBoing:

Purse shaped like Paris Hilton's dead chihuahua

Brass-knuckle purse said to land wearer in airport security hell

Purses: the better to kick your ass with

James sez, "Rick Falkvinge, founder of the Swedish Pirate Party, will be giving a talk tomorrow (Tuesday July 31) from 3-4:30 at Stanford's Center for Internet and Society entitled 'Copyright Regime vs. Civil Liberties.' Falkvinge is on a US West coast tour which included a keynote address at OSCON.

"The Swedish Pirate Party strives to reform laws regarding intellectual property, including copyright, patent and the protection of design. The agenda also includes support for a strengthening of the right to privacy (such as private property and private information), both on the Internet and in everyday life." Link (Thanks, James!)

(CC-licensed Falkvinge photo Rick Falkvinge talar ganked from Jonas_H's Flickr stream)

By popular demand: this post-lobotomy unicorn chaser brought to you by "Tinkler," link.

The Neurophilosophy blog has a concise and interesting history of the lobotomy. First performed on people in the 1890s, it involves destroying parts of the brain or, at least, slicing some of the connections in the prefontal cortex. After United States neurologist Walter Freeman imported the technique from Europe and "refined" it with surgeon James Watts, the procedure became frighteningly common. During the middle of last century, there were 40,000 lobotomies performed in the US alone.

From the article:

The Freeman-Watts Standard Procedure was used for the first time in September 1936. Also known as "the precision method", this involved inserting a blunt spatula through holes in both sides of the skull; the instrument was moved up and down to sever the thalamo-cortical fibers. However, Freeman was unhappy with the new procedure. He considered it to be both time-consuming and messy, and so developed a quicker method, the so-called "ice-pick"lobotomy (photo above -ed.), which he performed for the first time on January 17th, 1945.

With the patient rendered unconscious by electroshock, an instrument was inserted above the eyeball through the orbit using a hammer. Once inside the brain, the instrument was moved back and forth; this was then repeated on the other side. (The ice-pick lobotomy, named as such because the instrument used resembled the tool with which ice is broken, is therefore also known as the transorbital lobotomy...)

Freeman's new technique could be performed in about 10 minutes.

Link (via Mind Hacks)

Previously on BB:
• "My Lobotomy" on NPR Link

Whereismyrobot sez, "There is a movement of Chuck E Cheese and Showbiz fans that are buying the old robots and setting them up in their homes or garages. Some program them for good, while the creator of this video obviously programmed these for evil. This is a lot better than indie bands ironically covering rap songs." Link (Thanks, Whereismyrobot!)

EFF's Derek Slater sez, "House Speaker Nancy Pelosi suggested that Congress may take action this week on a bill that could rubberstamp the NSA's spying program. The Bush Administration is trying to sell its latest proposal as a serious compromise, but don't be fooled -- it represents an unprecedented power grab that endangers the checks and balances that define our democracy. Please call your representatives now before it's too late."

Nomad4ever has a tutorial on how to avoid paying phony fines to crooked traffic cops in Bali. He lists several things you can do to save yourself from paying a fine that would be better spent on a couple of bottles of cold beer. Rule number one: don't stop for the cop when they try to pull you over. They'll forget about you and find another sucker:

Don’t stop in the first place. Am I kidding you? Not! As the ‘Patroli’ are usually waiting for their prey in not easily visible corners or side pockets of the road; it’s pretty easy to miss them. They don’t use whistles or other signals as well, just a lame hand waive to flag you down. It’s easier when riding a bike - just look in the opposite direction (usually the right side of the road, it also helps if you wear sunglasses). This way you missed them ‘by accident’, don’t worry: they will not follow you - there is much easier prey for them than abandoning their favorite sweet spot to follow one single victim.

Link (Thanks, Chris!)

Link to Adam Koford's Sunday Strip #1 of the Laugh Out Loud Cats: "How they Met." Above, detail. Poster here, you can has original art here.

Previously on BB:

True historic origins of the Laugh Out Loud cats

Laugh Out Loud Cats: more 1900s comics unearthed

Laugh Out Loud Cats: rediscovered short film

There have been sex worker 'zines in the United States, but Red Light Despatch is a new prostitution monthly published in Mumbai, India. Edited by sex workers, health officials, and two former journalists, the Despatch runs personal stories about life as a prostitute, poetry and essays, reviews, and advocacy articles. The newsroom is inside a brothel. From Reuters:

With a little help from a voluntary group, the magazine prints about 1,000 copies in Hindi and English and is distributed free among prostitutes and residents of red light districts...

"We have little money, but we still pay our writers small amounts so that they realize they can earn a respectable living as well," said editor (Anurag) Chaturvedi.

For its reporters, getting stories from brothels is not a problem because "we are accepted as one of them".

"When we go to people's homes they are comfortable and they talk," said (health volunteer and magazine contributor Anita) Khude. "In the next issue we will write about how a 'normal' man -- a poor roadside snacks seller -- fought prejudices and married a prostitute he fell in love with."

Link

The FCC will set rules governing the auction of $15 billion of public airwaves tomorrow. A decision is due before noon ET. Snip from piece by Kim Hart in the Washington Post today, which explains why the stakes here are high enough that Google and various telecommunications companies have spent millions on lobbying efforts to influence the outcome:

Google, the giant Internet search company, wants to extend its popular tools, which include e-mail and video, to the rapidly expanding mobile phone market. To do so, it may spend billions to build a new, open network it says will loosen the grip telecom operators have over how consumers use their cellphones.

Currently, the major U.S. wireless carriers, including AT&T and Verizon Wireless, largely decide which Web sites, music-download services and search engines their customers can access on their cellphones. This is accomplished by wireless companies determining which cellphones will receive their services: AT&T, for example, is the only carrier available to users of Apple's iPhone.

Google wants to end that restriction and has urged the FCC to require the winner of the auction to build a network that will be open to all cellphones and services, so any consumer can have access to Google's array of offerings.

Link

BoingBoing reader Paul says,

Various news outlets are reporting that FBI and IRS agents are raiding the Girdwood, AK home of Senator Ted Stevens (R-AK) this afternoon. Stevens is most known for explaining the "...internet is a Series of Tubes" last year [ed note: and for wanting to switch phones "while i ride my motorcycle"].

"All I can say is that agents from the FBI and IRS are currently conducting a search at that residence," said Dave Heller, the assistant special agent in charge of the FBI's Anchorage office. The search began this afternoon, and is said to be the only such search warrant currently being served. Heller directed other questions to the U.S. Justice Department's Public Integrity Section in Washington, and a spokesman there had no comment.

Link.

Anonymous reader says,

This is a brochure for an offbeat tourist attraction from the 1940's called "The Midgets Palace". It was owned by the "King and Queen of All Midgets" who had the "only child born to midgets". Incredibly politically incorrect.

Link. By posting this, I do not intend to imply that it is okay to make fun of short-statured people. But it's interesting to look back at what was considered appropriate in years past.

Update: The Midget Palace is now a bathhouse for gay men? Link to section of website promoting giant crotches and hourly sauna rates for men only, at the same address where the Midget Palace once stood. Wow. (thanks, marc pageau)

Ed Deasy says,

I was surprised to see an article on the Museum in Montreal. I took photographs there about 20 years ago, when visiting the City. The most interesting item: the brochure linked to from your article mentioned the birth of their Son. It was thought he might be of even smaller stature than the parents at the time the brochure was published. Not so. He was normal. This must have been a somewhat disorienting experience for the parents. I've got a close-up of a photograph with his father that was in his room at the Museum. Link to the photograph.

Business 2.0 has a feature on AdultVest.com, a service that matches investors (with purses of varying depth) and adult entertainment companies (with profit margins of various girth).

Whenever mainstream news reports repeat rosy, seldom-factchecked figures like $12 billion to describe the size of the porn industry, I cringe. Porn =! get rich quick, any more than internet = get rich quick, and there's more to those numbers than typically meets the ink.

Leaving aside what feels like an oversimplified and overeager portrayal of the sector's investment risks (actual f'in quote: "there's silly money to be made here"), it's still an interesting feature. Just read with an extra-healthy helpin' of skepticism.

Snip:

The response has been strong: Koenig says he's signed up well over 1,000 potential investors since January. For now, he's catering to investors with big money, although he says his approach will eventually evolve to serve the investing masses. He's raising money for two funds: a $100 million fund that requires a minimum investment of $1 million, and a $10 million fund with a $100,000 minimum.

Accredited investors can sign up on AdultVest.com to qualify, and Koenig says people are signing up at the rate of 15 per day. Roughly 300 companies - including website-porn subscription businesses, escort services, and strip clubs - have registered. Investors can also use the AdultVest marketplace to hook up directly with companies.

Koenig has a good track record: The New World Partners hedge fund, where he was a managing director, posted double- and triple-digit returns through the late '90s - and he thinks similar returns are possible with porn. His funds are set up like any venture capital fund and will invest in a range of businesses, with a portion of each earmarked for buying and running strip clubs.

Link to story.

Here's the AdultVest website: Link (warning, annoying loud sound, obnoxious Flash, and silly looking porno spokesavatar).

At left here, my favorite part of the AdultVest.com design aesthetic.

It's like -- "Investors, have the first look at all the hot new deals... UP OUR ASS!"

(thanks, Susannah Breslin)

Reader comment: Cory Silverberg says,

There was a piece in the Times a few days ago by Matt Richtel ("A Thaw in Investment Prospects for Sex-Related Businesses? Maybe" -- Link). The piece displays a similarly simplistic understanding of the place and meaning of sex businesses in our society ("they like us, they really like us"), but at least it highlighted one of my favorite high end sex toy makers.

A silica-glass DVD put together by folks at the Planetary Society is now ready to be shipped off to Mars, aboard NASA's Phoenix Scout. The mission may lift off as early as this Friday, August 3, and landing should happen in 2008.

The Planetary Society DVD will likely appear in some of the calibration images sent back to Earth by the Phoenix lander. The disc is attached to the lander's deck, and includes a collection of 19th and 20th century stories, essays and art inspired by Mars, as well as the names of more than 250,000 humans. Snip from announcement:

This first library on Mars contains materials that represent 20 nations and cultures. Visions of Mars includes works by The Planetary Society's co-founder Carl Sagan, Isaac Asimov, Ray Bradbury, Kim Stanley Robinson, Arthur C. Clarke, Percival Lowell and many more. (...)

Phoenix will be the first lander to explore the Martian arctic, landing near 70 degrees north latitude. Designed to search for and study water ice, the spacecraft is a fixed lander with a suite of advanced instruments and a robotic arm that can dig up to half a meter into the soil. The Phoenix team hopes to uncover clues in the icy soil of the Martian arctic about the history of near surface ice and the planet's potential for habitability. The first possible launch date for Phoenix is August 3, 2007, with a landing slated for 2008.

Link. Image: artist's conception of Phoenix, shortly after landing on Mars, from Phoenix Mission, University of Arizona.

Japanese firm Rocket Craft creates custom stuffed fabric models of cars, motorcycles, and even engines. From Daddy Types:

Rocket Craft's crafts are not just off-the-shelf; they're faithful re-creations of your own vehicle; which is why the license plates are mosaicked out on cars in the portfolio. That's not just a generic Renault 5 Turbo; it's a client's. A Nissan Cube. A Honda Fit. A Volvo 240GL. Rocket Craft appears well-connected among the riceburner J-car enthusiasts in their home country. There are precious few wagons--though there is a Mitsubishi Delica offroadish minivan--and thankfully few SUV's... 35-45cm in length, depending on the model. 25,000-30,000 yen, plus 4,000 for the [optional] license plate.

Link to Daddy Types post, Link to Rocket Craft

Concept cars of the past. (Via Neatorama)

Video -- 1961 Rural Civil Defense TV spots use marionettes. (Via Endless Parade of Excellence)

How to wind a center-pull ball of yarn or twine.

"Goblin's Ball" -- creepy one-page comic story from 1962 horror comic.

Rescued ducklings enjoy life in a teacup.

Free ebooks: Three 1940s mystery novels "featuring private eye Doan and his remarkable sidekick, a gigantic fawn-colored Great Dane named Carstairs."

Reader comment:

Eric says: "I don't know if you're aware, but one of the novels you linked to a free ebook of, "The Mouse in the Mountain" by Norbert Davis, also called "Rendezvous with Fear," was one of Ludwig Wittgenstein's favorite novels, so much so that he almost wrote a letter to Davis, and loaned it to his students to read. (Reference: Ray Monk, The Duty of Genius, p. 528-529)"

Video -- How psychic con artists use cold readings to bilk rubes.

MP3s -- Goobers: anthology of 26 kids songs by artists like Foetus and Tiny Tim.

Previously on Boing Boing:
• ASASICOMK, Vol 1
• ASASICOMK, Vol 2
• ASASICOMK, Vol 3
• ASASICOMK, Vol 4

Weirdomatic posted a fine selection of creepy, interesting, and real vintage advertisements. Their server took a hit, so they kindly moved the post to Blogspot for our continued viewing pleasure. Link

David sez, "Waved Albatrosses mate for life, and they breed on just one island in the Galapagos. But they don't spend all their time there, so they do this elaborate mating dance so they can learn to recognize each other when they return."

This is some mating dance -- like the elaborate gang-handshakes we used to think up when we were stoned, but a thousand times sillier, with funny noises, beak-fencing, and a lot of general bobbing up and down. Link (Thanks, David!)

MIT grad students are designing a system to convert the mechanical energy of people movingh around a building into electricity. Designed for a railways system, Tad Jusczyk and James Graham's "Crowd Farm" would consist of sub-floor that moves slightly as people walk across it. That motion would then be converted by a dynamo into current. From the MIT News Office:

The electric current generated by the Crowd Farm could then be used for educational purposes, such as lighting up a sign about energy. "We want people to understand the direct relationship between their movement and the energy produced," says Juscyzk.

The Crowd Farm is not intended for home use. According to Graham and Jusczy, a single human step can only power two 60W light bulbs for one flickering second. But get a crowd in motion, multiply that single step by 28,527 steps, for example, and the result is enough energy to power a moving train for one second.

And while the farm is an urban vision, the dynamo-floor principle can also be applied to capturing energy at places like rock concerts, too. "Greater movement of people could make the music louder," suggests Jurcyzk.

Link

Odile Crick, the artist who in 1953 first sketched the double helix of DNA, died earlier this month. She was 86. Odile Crick was the wife of Francis Crick who, with James Watson, discovered the structure of DNA. From the New York Times:

In a brief interview on Thursday, Dr. Watson recalled why he and his colleague had asked Mrs. Crick to make the original black-and-white sketch — based on their mathematical analysis of a pattern of spots revealed by a process called X-ray crystallography — for the April 1953 issue of the journal Nature.

“Francis can’t draw, and I can’t draw, and we need something done quick,” Dr. Watson said. The drawing “showed the essence of the structure,” he said. “And it became historically important, reproduced over and over.”

Link

UPDATE: Readers ask that we not forget the oft-uncredited contributions of Rosalind Franklin to the DNA discovery. Link

This fake toe, dated between 1069 and 664 BCE, is likely the first practical prosthetic. The toe, which articulates, is still attached to a mummy currently on display at the Cairo Museum. From the BBC News:

A Manchester University team hope to prove that the leather and wood "Cairo toe" not only looked the part but also helped its owner walk.

They will test a replica in volunteers whose right big toe is missing.

If true, the toe will predate the currently considered earliest practical prosthesis - a fake leg from 300BC.

Link (via Fortean Times)

The Possessed Books gimmick is an 8"-long group of fake books with a motion-sensor. When you walk past it, the books start to slide back and forth and emit eerie moans. Link (via Geekologie)

The guys at Times Online (UK) have compiled a list of the 50 coolest movie robots, measured with the following factors in mind:

Plausibility (meaning how likely it would be that, with advances on currently existing technology, such a device could be built)

Coolness (just how well designed, shiny or generally well-appointed the robot appeared to be)

Dangerousness (scoring not only on built-in weaponry, but the robot's eagerness to use it) Related Links

Comedy Value (how effective the robot is at providing light relief in the film in which it appears)

Link to list, which includes lots of video clips -- this is a fun, obsessively assembled homage. (thanks, Mikey)

Reader comment: Mark Christian says,

Heya. If you feed that link into Chime.TV, you can watch all the video clips in one go. :) Link.

The legendary motion picture director was 89. Snip from NYT obit:

In his more than 40 years in the cinema, Mr. Bergman made about 50 films, often focusing on two themes — the relationship between the sexes, and the relationship between mankind and God. Mr. Bergman found in cinema, he wrote in a 1965 essay, “a language that literally is spoken from soul to soul in expressions that, almost sensuously, escape the restrictive control of the intellect.”

Link. Wikipedia bio: Link. IMDB: Link.

Image above, Bergman working on the film "Wild Strawberries." Here's a 4:35-minute clip from that film: Video Link. Here's a DVD link.

(Thanks, Eugene Belford)

Gerdien Stevense, an art director at These Days in Antwerp, tells BoingBoing -- "We just launched a campaign for the Nokia NSeries it's a bit of an absurd campaign in which computers get jealous of the N95 and they kind of show their anger by biting people." Here's the landing site. Here's a larger version of this one: Link.

Check out the incredible "Notice of privacy practices" given to patients at the Cedars-Sinai hospital in LA: you "agree" that they're allowed to share your private information for fundraising, national security, and for protective services for the President. Link

PopPhoto's Christopher Badzioch has a wealth of tips for getting incredible macro-focus photos of the insects in your yard -- from dramatic outdoor lighting to "studio shoots" with captured critters.

* Remember, you are surrounded by millions of insects every day and if the first one you see gets away, there'll be another soon enough.

* Patience is the key. Think of insects like they are two year old kids running around without a break. But everyone, even bumblebees and toddlers eventually needs a break, so that's when to make your photos. It may only last for a few moments, so be ready.

* Most insects are very sensitive to carbon monoxide, and will run or fly away if you breathe directly on them; however, certain beetles will freeze when breathed on -- experiment!

Link (Thanks, Jay!)

See also:
Insect photos in naturalistic macro-focus
Macrofocus bug photos for sale

It's an unfortunate coincidence that "Servicio de Hosteleria Industrial de Terrassa," the name of this shop in Terrassa, Catalonia, Spain becomes "SHIT" when converted to an acronym. Link (Thanks, Javier!)

Google Transit is a journey-planner for public transit systems in nine US cities and all of Japan. It works more or less like Google Maps's driving directions, but for transit systems, and includes itineraries and maps. Weirdly, it doesn't include the NYC subway/bus network, nor the London networks (though London is superbly served by the Transport for London journey planner). Link (Thanks, Grey!)

Security expert Bruce Schneier conducted a five-part interview with Kip Hawley, administrator of the Transport Security Agency -- the man responsible for the freedom baggie. He's just posted part one. It's really frustrating -- Hawley's ultimate answer to every question is, "Well, if you only knew all this secret stuff I'm not allowed to tell you, you'd understand that every criticism you raise of the TSA is invalid."

Schneier is one of the great popularizers of the idea that there can be no security in obscurity -- how can Hawley know that his s33kr1t back-end for preventing moisture bombs and evil shoe-wearing aviation threats works unless it's subject to public scrutiny?

If you don't publish your findings, you're not doing science, you're doing alchemy, and every alchemist had to discover for himself, the hard way, that drinking mercury was a bad idea.

So without getting into specifics on the test results, of course there are times that our evaluations can generate high failure rate numbers on specific scenarios. Overall, though, our ability to detect bomb components is vastly improved and it will keep getting better. (Older scores you may have seen may be "feel good" numbers based on old, easy tests. Don't go for the sound-bite; today's TSOs are light-years ahead of even where they were two years ago.)

Link

LCD Soundsystem: "Someone Great," from "Sound of Silver." 2007. Here's a trippy, presumably unauthorized video (from China?) with what look like lo-fi autogenerated fractals, and good quality sound: Video Link. (Amazon | iTunes )

Editors: "An End Has a Start." 2007. Video Link. (Amazon | iTunes)

U.N.K.L.E. (this track -- James Lavelle + DJ Shadow + Richard Ashcroft + Thom Yorke): "Rabbit in Your Headlights," from "Psyence Fiction." 1998. Jonathan Glazer directed this: Video Link. (Amazon | iTunes)

A bunch of that Balkan beat stuff we blogged last week: Link.

Miles Davis: "Solea," from "Sketches of Spain." 1960. No video of Miles himself performing this particular piece exists on YouTube or other easily searchable repositories, but here's a Video Link to the Chicago Jazz Ensemble performing it, with Orbert Davis on trumpet. (Amazon | iTunes)

Brian Eno: "An Ending (Ascent)," from "Apollo: Atmospheres and Soundtracks." 1983. Here's a fan-made Video Link. (Amazon | iTunes)

Belong: "All Equal Now," from "October Language." 2006. (Amazon | iTunes )

Ulrich Schnauss: "Here Today, Gone Tomorrow," from "Goodbye." 2007. (Amazon | iTunes)

Siouxsie and the Banshees: "Christine," appeared on various releases including the linked-to "Best of." 1980. Video Link. (Amazon, iTunes)

Nino Rota: "La Dolce Vita," from the Fellini movie soundtrack. 1960. (Amazon | iTunes)

Alice Coltrane: "Blue Nile," from "Ptah the el Daoud." 1970. (Amazon | iTunes)

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Images: Larger size. From this post on Bibliodyssey blog, a detail from a manuscript produced in 1650 by Athanasius Kircher: "Musurgia Universalis."

Brando's Chromatic Hub is a four-part USB 2 hub in the form of a fully articulated Jacob's Ladder toy. It's hella cute, and I'm thinking that having the ability to twist and torque my hub to conform to the physical limitations of my desk and its tchotchkes would be extremely useful. Link (via Gizmodo)

A new bridge made of cardboard tubes has been erected over the Gardon river in southern France by a Japanese architect named Shigeru Ban.

Built half a mile from the Pont du Gard -- a section of ancient Roman bridge classed as a UN World Heritage site -- Shigeru's cardboard-tube structure is strong enough to carry 20 people at a time.

Reaching over the water to a sandy islet mid-river, it opens to the public for six weeks starting on Monday, before it is dismantled for the rainy season...

Weighing 7.5 tonnes, the bridge is made from 281 cardboard tubes, each 11.5 centimetres (four inches) across and 11.9 millimetres thick. The steps are recycled paper and plastic and the foundations wooden boxes packed with sand.

Link (Thanks, Leo!)

Sharkrunners is Discovery Channel's real-time strategy game for teaching you about sharks -- the sweet gimmick is that the sharks you track in the game are real sharks wearing transponders, whose in-game position is determined by their real-world telemetry. A cool idea from the developers, area/code.

Players are given a virtual boat and virtual crew. They use it to track real-life sharks that have been tagged with a GPS receivers. When a boat encounters a shark the player is alerted via email and/or SMS. The player has three hours to select how to try to collect data about the shark and its behavior. The goal is to gather as much data about sharks as possible.

IN Sharkrunners my boat, the Roo, has just left the port of San Luis Obispo. We had our first encounter 15 minutes after leaving port. Now that I have some funding I'll probably get another crew member (which increases the likelihood of my getting data and decreases the likelihood of my crew dying) or upgrade my boat (a better craft allows me to stay out to sea longer). My single shark encounter netted me $2,200. Given that the game launched a week and players already have over $700,000, I think the players really like it.

Link (Thanks, Ratz!)

EPIC LULZ: Video Link (from this short links roundup / XJ)

Cory's comic-con snapshots, and a voice post.

Ikea opens free hostel for shoppers who don't want to leave (Cory)

Guy who lost online trollfight drives 1300 miles, burns dude's trailer (Xeni)

Never get busted / surviving police encounters: one, two, three. (Mark)

ZOMG TERRISTS GONNA KILL US ALL ZOMG ZOMG ALERT LEVEL BLOODRED RUN RUN TAKE OFF YOUR SHOES MOISTURE BOMBS ZOMG! -- t-shirt. (Cory)

Songs for ice cream trucks (Pesco)

Gyp-hop MP3s (Xeni)

Vintage Planned Parenthood issue of Spider-Man comic (Pesco)

Animated flashlight film (those Sprint ads came from here) (Pesco)

Wireless power explained (Pesco)

Mull of Kintyre pornography test (Mark)

Wal Mart flip flops cause nasty chemical burn (Mark)

Secret list of buildings you can't photograph (Cory)

Fake ATM receipts for sale (Mark)