click through all of these: http://www.vanityfair.com/culture/features/2007/09/austin_slideshow200709?slide=1

http://donquixonqui.net/

…according to Slate.  Amusing article though.  Def recommend reading it:
http://www.slate.com/id/2173729   

(catch that ?  def?  am i hipster now? no?  b/c i still drive a car and live in the conswervative state o’ Texas?).

Stephen Malkmus performs with the Jicks

I officially LOVE Knut. 

September 11, 2007, 05:48 PM

Knut Feigning Sore Paw to Get Attention

Berlin Zoo’s polar bear superstar Knut is so lonely that he has been deliberately limping to get some attention, says his keeper Thomas Dörflein, who knows the shaggy cub better than anyone else. The ruse is working: Visitors have been cooing over him and alarmed fans have been writing in from as far away as Brazil and Hawaii. By David Crossland in Berlin more…

HOW MUCH DO YOU LOVE THIS???!!!!  :D 

July 31, 2007, 04:30 PM

POLAR BEAR TOLD TO STOP SNACKING

Fatty Knut Put on Strict Diet

Knut, the world’s most famous polar bear, is off the scales after eating too many snacks and has been put on a diet. The Berlin Zoo said Knut’s handlers have been told to stop feeding him extra rations of croissant, fish and meat. more…

You get to take the day off of work to HAVE SEX.

Red hot and filthy, according to the Nonist.

The filming/editing…and the revealing at the end are el best.

Also, THIS is real:

Airline sacrifices goats to appease sky god
Reuters
KATHMANDU – Officials at Nepal’s state-run airline have sacrificed two goats to appease Akash Bhairab, the Hindu sky god, following technical problems with one of its Boeing 757 aircraft, the carrier said.

Fantastic snarkiness about Ruskie propaganda!  Funny and cute and a reminder about all forms of state propaganda, the US’s I recently noted while going through Customs at IAH in Houston.  (yep; we’ve definitely got some in this Homeland Security day and age.  Does the term Homeland Security prickle the hairs of anyone else besides me?  It sorta has a slight NAZIs circa 1938 ring to it, no?). 
The Russians and their unintentionally hilarious Washington Post ad supplement.

The science nerd in me loved reading this one.  Especially since I had a feeling that the Ansari-and-Diamandis crowd had their hand in it…and low and behold, there’s a line about the X-Prize foundation.  (Hmm. knew it! Must get a job in there somewhere.)  Since gaining 10 pounds since mid May (seriously.  I have.) and noticing a few strange new behaviors about how I’ve started using food (comfort) and especially my choices (easy; bad), I slapped myself awake recently.  Remembered that I care.  That I’ve cared for a long time about what I’m putting in and I really am interested in knowing honestly the truth in health claims and mainly, knowing my body really, really well.  Plus, I just want to be healthy, to feel better and less tired and perform better; all that shit.  So then there’s this: “There will be a tipping point where everybody wants their personal genome map to be part of their medical history,” and especially, this:  “It’s not just straight-up determinism. The original thinking was we could really go into a preventive medicine paradigm,” says Venter.   The idea is simple. Calculate the genetic probability of getting a disease and your chances at treating or beating it are better.   Yeah.  I’m interested.

Finally, this was interesting and comical and really one of those unanswerable things that I enjoyed thinking about for a moment before really starting my day.  Especially the thought that little boys are little monsters and little girls are little angels.  Certainly that’s not altogether true, but it WAS fun to remember back to all the hilarious shenanigans that I witnessed and found myself involved in during the little kid days of school.
There’s finally proof that boys do ruin schools for girls.