The world's greatest driving road. [via a welsh view]

Chatty Cathy photo gallery. Also, the Shirley Temple item of the month.

Former Argentine soccer hero and reformed cokehead Diego Maradona looking very happy during a Carnival parade in Rio de Janeiro yesterday.

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An interesting ride inside the Toyota/United Cycing Team car during a stage of last week's Tour of California.

A Paparazzi game.

Popeye the Michelin Man.

My oil paintings portray the daily rhythms of Balinese women at work in the fields, selling or buying in the markets and preparing for temple festivals. I am particularly drawn to the special grace of these women as they attend to the ordinary tasks of daily life. -The artwork of Lori Lander.

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Photos of the damage done to several Southern Mississippi libraries by Hurricane Katrina.

A handmade bicycle show in San Jose next month.

The peloton on its way from Monterey to San Luis Obispo in yesterday's stage of the Tour of California.

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William Fleming, 86, zipped over from his home a couple of blocks away in his motorized tricycle and took up a perch on the sidewalk, too. "It's something to do,'' he said. "Either this or sit in the backyard and watch the squirrels." -Reports from spectators along the Tour of California's route.

Not everyone's as easily amused: I Support No Bike Zones. Yikes!

Exclusive, spacious and elegant, it is the only place in the world that you can feed giraffe from your second floor bedroom window, over the lunch table, and at the front door. -The Giraffe Manor in Nairobi, Kenya.

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Save the 76 Ball. It's not too late!

Pipeline 101. Oh yeah.

Learning is FUN with lessons from CITGO's "Week About Petroleum." CITGO developed these lesson plans and other programs to help students learn the importance of petroleum-based products in our lives. -Lesson plans from CITGO. Also, Chevron!

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James Brown plays China.

Pictures of Uranus and its satellites. Sorry.

A special note: Happy fuckin' birthday Jeffe!

Raphael's alien cherubs. From an excellent and huge collection of Angels on the Web.

$13.34 an hour as a school crossing guard in Santa Cruz, CA. Perfect.

Why can't I own a Canadian? Indeed. [via look at this]

Nanotech buzzwords.

Nice view of the peloton snaking along Highway One north of San Francisco during Monday's stage of the Tour of California.

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Some neat bicycle drawings. [via velorution]

A man is at the bar, drunk. I pick him up off the floor, and offer to take him home. On the way to my car, he falls down three times. When I get to his house, I help him out of the car, and on the way to the front door, he falls down four more times. I ring the bell, and say, "Here's your husband!" The man's wife says, "Where's his wheelchair?". -From a collection of Henny Youngman jokes.

Cockroach executions. [via jafproject]

The Japanese Baseball Hall of Fame.

How to sauté. Useful.

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Memory M*A*S*H. Also, Zesting.

A $95.25 'lectric stapler! Sweet. [via coudal]

Ray Charles' tour bus donated to Morehouse College.

Bike Furniture. Furniture made from bicycles. [via velorution]

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"I come here for a month of 12 hour shifts, then I have a month off back in Nadym," says Boris Semin who operates the power generator at a purifying station 100 kilometres from the nearest town. "The company takes us to and from the gas field by bus." -Boom times in Russia's gas fields.

Have fun with Mr. Potato Head! Also, Mr. Edible Starchy Tuber Head.

Olivier Kaisen, of Belgium's Davitamon-Lotto cycling team, rides up Telegraph Hill during Sunday's prologue of the Tour of California. [Photo courtesy of my wife]

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The wonderful story of Australian honey.

Some nice black & white photos of the hallway dancers found at Grateful Dead concerts.

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Robots enter the slaughterhouse. Disturbingly delicious.

The back rub FAQ. Useful.

A beer dispensing PC. Useful.

Jerry. Part of Andrewf's collection of artwork, for sale.

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Becky's Day at a Dead Show.

Roots of the Grateful Dead.

Millions of Baby Boomers approaching senior citizenship are realizing that years spent listening to loud rock music in youth have exacted a toll. Noise-related hearing loss doesn't typically show up until middle age. Its onset is also so slow and insidious that other people usually notice it first ("Are you going deaf?"). -The Grateful Dead/Ultrasound/Hearing Loss connection.

A database of bands that allow live concert taping.

"Jerry Garcia". Part of Phil Kutno's collection of artwork, sold.

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Upcoming cycling races on the cable network OLN.

Hey, here's something that's missing from the Torino Games: Italians. Love the mountaintop villas and gorgeous shots of spires and terra cotta rooftops, but how about some of the actual Italian people? NBC effectively has sucked the locality out of the Games. Maybe it's being shot on a stage in Maine? -SF Chron's Tim Goodman on the Olympics.

Curling terms & lingo. Also, how to read a curling scoreboard.

flylittlebird.org - a collection of commencement speeches.

The truck holding all the Boston Red Sox gear left for Florida and Spring Training on Monday. Baseball's right around the corner.

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AP: Pamela Anderson Criticizes Kentucky Derby. Film at 11.

Online Archive of American Folk Medicine. Excellent. [via metafilter]

Like many Western retailers, Starbucks sees China as its key growth place, due to its fast-growing economy - which is steadily if slowly being opened up to foreign competition - and the sheer size of its population. -The mouth of Starbucks waters as it thinks of all those potential coffee drinkers.

From yesterday's stage 3 of the Ruta del Sol cycling race in Spain.

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Overheard love lines.

Kidney stone photographs. [via evenings on the lake]

On Being Cajun.

"United We Stand" snack mix. Freedom tastes sweet and salty.

Ever wonder what music your dog would listen to if he could wrap his paw around the radio dial? -Songs to make dogs happy. [via presurfer]

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The wind she's strong in Patagonia.

AP: Audits Show Millions in Katrina Aid Wasted. Film at 11.

Types of shrimp.

Take a pass on the Chilean Sea Bass.

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Information on a crab stick processing line machine. Wow.

But Marmaduke is uniquely psychosexual; the dog is a huge, lumbering id waving its monster lipstick-phallus throughout the tightly-buttoned Winslow household while tension simmers just below the surface. -From a Freudian interpretation of the cartoon strip Marmaduke. [via growabrain]

Graphic (and zoomable!) photo from the 1929 St. Valentine's Day Massacre.

Taken while tooling around one of the many container yards at the Port of Oakland.

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Responding to the criticism, Kapica said the company is "very proud of our menu." "It is important to note that McDonald's menu has a wide range of choice and variety, with an array of portion sizes, including three options with french fries - small, medium and large," she said. -McDonalds fries contain a third more trans fats than previously known. Film at 11.

Types of fats. Also, questions and answers about trans fats.

You are bombarded by TV and advertising with millions of positive impressions about unhealthy foods every day. Your local grocery store is stocked full of more than 35 thousand items you should never eat! -10 popular foods that are bad for you.

Be my anti-valentine.

How to get laid like a rock star.

Find out if Steve Fossett's flight will break the record. Or not.

Sheep Magazine - The Voice of the Independent Flockmaster.

Hikers Against Doo Doo can visualize a time when walking and hiking trails worldwide are free of human and domesticated animal feces. -Can't we all?

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How a corn plant develops.

I can't believe it's vegan!

Collecting antique mole traps.

Uncle Tom's Cabin in advertising. More UTC.

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Vintage BBC microphones. Also, cool microphones.

Gasoline by the two liter bottle in Cambodia.

Leah Hollinsworth, Toronto bike courier.

The children of Bob Marley.

Like so any youth on farms, I eventually left the farm and my dad retired. The one thing I missed the most was driving a John Deere two cylinder tractor. -The restoration of a John Deere tractor.

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Hot dog soup and hot dog salad.

Scared of my Nestle Crunch bar.

"A frozen squirrel fell out of a tree and crashed through the windscreen on to the passenger seat." -From a car insurance claim in the UK.

Photo gallery from the Maverick's surf competition which just took place south of San Francisco.

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The judge who led her courtroom in a Super Bowl cheer before a manslaughter sentencing hearing has issued an apology to the victim's family, prosecutors and others in the court. -Wow.

Pooping in the bathtub. Sorry.

How to make a Seminole patchwork bookmark. Also, sewing as a business.

Emblem of the San Francisco Fire Department's Haight Street station.

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He didn't go crazy, he wasn't on drugs, he's not paranoid. He just got stressed out. And not about the fame part -- at least not the adulation. No, he likes that. "It's the way people around you position themselves to get in your pockets and your mind," he said. "It's infuriating to me." -Dave Chapelle explains all to the good Oprah.

Flying Spaghetti Monster erotica. Excellent. [via negativesmart] [nsfw]

Why do Europeans wear Speedos? What are they reviled by Americans?

Too much information on the streaker of Superbowl XXXVIII. [NSFW]

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Game-fixing in the NFL.

Initiative, a media research firm, measured the global audience for last year's Super Bowl at 93 million people, with 98 percent of those viewers in North America. That would mean roughly 2 million people outside North America watched the Super Bowl. -Contrary to popular opinion, a billion people do not watch the Superbowl.

Football basics. Also, how to kick a football.

Black Dallas Cowboys cheerleaders.

Country singer Shania Twain exposed her breasts during Superbowl XXXVII. I did not know that. [NSFW]

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Speaking drills. Also, fun power tools humor.

Bob Villa shows you how to fix a hair curler.

How to hop a freight train.

In a fit of consumeristic insanity we just replaced our old, critically ill monitor with one of them new shiny LCD jobs, and our old, clinically dead laptop with a sweet (and bargain-priced) IBM Thinkpad. Wallet's thinner but smile's bigger.

AP: Bible Owned by MLK's Mother Auctioned.

Punxsutawney Phil's predictions (Since 1887).

A discussion of European vs. American men's swimsuits.

From stage 3 of the 2006 Tour of Qatar.

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Nice interview with pro cyclist Magnus Backstedt.

More better EPO drug invented for the pro cycling peloton. [via cyclosm]

Amphibians and reptiles of North Carolina.

Zoomable views of an Eastern Screech Owl.

Images of granites from the Llano Uplift, central Texas.

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Granites are like ice cream.

Look everyone, it's... JESUS!

Looking after your yabby.

Nice gallery of boathouses. [via jafproject]

Photos of the dissection of a Blue Mackerel (Scomber australasicus). Sorry.

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Ralph Steadman's George Bush.

Where does your dog sleep at night?

Reports on stowaway incidents.

Be cheerful and pleasant at all times. Keep the food and drinks coming - assign someone the task. -Etiquette for the hosts of Super Bowl parties. Seems reasonable.

Cheech and Chong bobblehead dolls. Also, the 'Up in Smoke' script.

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How to sleep in the Australian Outback.

How to spot aliens at work.

How to dance like Madonna.

Maps of Grand Canyon National Park.

Very old photo of four women holding bananas. [via thingsmag]

Quite a few photos of dogs pulling carts. Excellent.

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The spiders of Kentucky.

Potentially useful diagram of the New Riders of the Purple Sage family tree.

"When it came into our house it was so distorted, even if I were a Rolling Stone fan I still would have been horrified by it," said Joan Tricamo, 76, a 35-year-resident of Rhode Island Street. "There wasn't one room in the house where we couldn't hear it." -Some San Francisco residents still complaining about last year's Stones concert. Oy.

From stage one of this week's Tour of Qatar cycling race.

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Planetary fact sheets.

A lot of girls and guys in the extreme sport industry are way into Jesus. Let’s say “extremely” in to Jesus. And that’s cool. Because he helps them win contests. Jesus gives them sponsorship stickers which they put on their boards and then when they win a contest or aren’t stricken down they thank him. -Jesus digs the snowboarding.

What's a party without some sausage balls? Indeed.