5:31 PM (0 comments)
"There are no words for how disgusting you are."

"Yes there are. You just never learned them."

Insults and comeback from The Secret of Monkey Island

2:23 PM (0 comments)
Awesome: the Yes Men have struck again as Halliburton solves global warming with "SurvivaBalls" (via Wired News.)

1:49 PM (0 comments)


(via Ethan)

11:01 PM (0 comments)
On the WikiCommons, a great collection of art from early French editions of 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea and Mysterious Island. Similarly cool, the Jules Verne Dictionary--a Who's Who of characters from his novels.

4:32 PM (1 comments)
It's one thing to love the Beatles. It's another to have many good reasons to love the Beatles (with supporting MP3 evidence.)

6:51 PM (0 comments)
E3Buzz is a pretty handy page for those trying to drink from the firehose this week.

5:28 PM (0 comments)
Okay, this is pretty cool--a group of guys trying to make their own Capcom-style DC vs. Marvel fighting game:



There's no way the lawyers won't strangle this one. Sigh.

3:20 PM (1 comments)
"I was not willing to wait ten or more years for the drug companies to bring a drug to market. Based upon what I read, and what I learned about the hookworm I decided that I was going to try and infest myself with hookworm in an attempt to cure my asthma.

...But where to go to find these hookworm? Intensive searches of the WHO website turned up just one map showing hookworm distribution in only one country: Cameroon. I read extensively on Cameroon. ... The average annual wage is less than $700, it is at the epicenter for malaria and is afflicted with a legion of horrific diseases. ... The highlights are malaria, dengue fever, river blindness, sleeping sickness, filharzia/elephantiasis, bilharzia (nasty!), rift valley fever, two varieties of hepatitis, cholera, typhoid and yellow fever. Filharzia is my least favorite, a mosquito born nematode (worm) that takes up residence in your lymphatic system and that if left untreated the worms proliferate and so clog your lymph system that your extremities swell with undrained lymph to produce elephantiasis. It is in incurable, but can be managed with treatment. I don't think I got it but I won't know until 2007.

It only begins there.

The astonishing (and also a bit horrifying) story of one man's quest to cure his asthma using hookworm (via Waxy.)