AP: Miami zoo flush with visitors for poop exhibit.

Minerals and fire trucks: A lesson about color and identification.

There's a great old 5+ minute video on YouTube of Justin Wilson, the Cajun cook, making some garlic bread. Likely worth your while.

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Gernot Katzer's spice pages.

Dinosaur tracks and trackways. Also, dinosaur supertree.

H.R. 4083: To direct the Secretary of Homeland Security to construct a fence along the southern border of the United States. -Funny (and sad) because it's true.

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San Francisco Bay wind pattern streaklines. Trippy and real.

Ten tips for raising a darling heathen child.

Health problems of snakes.

How to bathe your bird.

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How to make bath bombs.

Latinos, on average, used 979 voice minutes per month in the third quarter of 2005, trailing only blacks in that area, according to estimates by Telephia Inc., a consumer research firm. Asians or Pacific Islanders used 845 minutes and whites used 632 minutes. -Cellphone carriers target Latinos.

A virtual tour of a sewage treatment plant. Another one.

Cool coverage of the World Series from the St. Louis Post-Dispatch. Check out the time lapse video from Game 2 in Detroit.

Cold temperature effects on baseball. Interesting. [via mystic chords]

From Craiglist: Any of you guys out there into making some extra $? Here's the deal. After a ride you remove your cleats as I purchase your white sweaty ripe cycling socks (SERIOUS ONLY. Will pay up to $100 a pair depending on the athletic scent. This might sound strange but it is what it is..Please be ages 20- 35). -Wow and hmmm.

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Also from Craigslist: The Beer for Bike Program.

The route for the 2007 Tour de France was announced yesterday.

Macau surpasses Las Vegas in casino revenues.

Map showing Godzilla's journey across the United States.

How to care for stitches.

GPS glossary.

The view of Earth from the THAICOM 1 satellite. From a cool website that allows you to view our planet from many different satellites.

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Is the Earth hollow and do people live inside?

Eye color calculator.

I really like Eric Drooker's posters for Krissy Keefer's Congressional campaign. I do.

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The Panama Canal will expand.

How many licks does it take to get to the center of a Tootsie Roll Pop?

A 1978 interview with Jerry Garcia from Guitar Player magazine.

Tales from a former AMC salesman. Also, an awful lot of AMC Pacer photos.

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Frequently Asked Questions: Seven Deadly Sins. Also, The talking toaster.

Crossing a river can be a dangerous undertaking; many people have drowned while crossing rivers. This page offers some very basic advice on how to do it safely, based on our experience. -How to safely cross a river on foot.

Neat photos from the Blyth Offshore Wind Farm, off the coast of North East England. More photos. Also, a map of existing and planned wind farms in northwestern Europe.

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Bagel history.

Chapter 1: A summary of CIA incursions.

A fact file about the Nile River.

A scene from downtown Kabale, in southwestern Uganda. From a collection of images of Uganda.

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His heart is torn between her and Africa. Even as he watches her plane land, the newly familiar constellations of the southern sky make him think about the changes he has undergone in these few short months. This process, which he calls "salvation", has begun but not yet finished. -From a very detailed analysis of "Africa," a song by the 80's rock band Toto. Wow.

AP: 7 Plead Guilty in Corpse Plundering Scam. Yikes!

Unique properties. [via thingsmag]

Nice set of photos from the Dirty Dozen bicycle/foot race in Pittsburgh, whose course includes this 37% climb.

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AP: Disney will serve, license healthier food for kids.

Super Splash Tunnel. Wow and I want.

Finger forecasts. I did not know that. [via nag on the lake]

Working women in rural Iran, a BBC photo gallery.

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Fans ask Dickey Betts their questions.

Dylan looked like Vincent Price in a mariachi suit and flat-brimmed Spanish hat, putting a crack blues band through its paces in a 100-minute romp that featured some wonderfully playful rearrangements of his classic songs. -From a review of this week's Bob Dylan shows here in San Francisco.

How Bob Weir met his wife.

How to display the flag of the United States of America.

How to jump start a battery.

Chanced into a neat TV program last night called Ice Pilots, about the 109th Air National Guard. The 109th are based near Schenectady, New York and provide air transport services for the Arctic/Greenland and Antarctica.

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Phonetic alphabets.

Phil Sparks, a deer hunter whose home sits on two acres near the Black Mountain Campground, said the problem of more humans encountering bears is less about the bears than about developers building more housing in the woods. -It's bear season in North Carolina.

BBC: Air passengers 'could be tagged'

Yugoslavia ~ Afghanistan ~ Iraq: The Satellite Wars. Wow, I had no idea. [via thingsmag]

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All about eyelash creatures. [via SpecOb blog]

Today in earthquake history.

President Truman trivia.

For hundreds of homeless people in San Francisco, the wooden pews of St. Boniface Catholic Church in the Tenderloin are the only place where they can sleep for a solid nine hours. In appreciation of the rare opportunity for tranquility - believed to be the only one of its kind in the country - the homeless people call it "Sacred Sleep." But starting today, they'll only be able to sleep from 8 a.m. to noon, cutting their sleep time in half. -A good sleep no longer allowed in church!?

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How to read a poem out loud.

How to read old documents.

How to read a pesticide product label.

Rwandans in the capital Kigali are getting used to using the country's first rubbish bins which have appeared in the centre of their city. -Woot!

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A whole lot of information on inflating balloons.

Blow-up balloon in vacuum.

Cycling in Sacramento.

How to take great Halloween pictures.

The peloton climbs above Italy's Lake Como during Saturday's Giro di Lombardia, this year's last major pro cycling race.

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Wear pajamas that are difficult to open, yet loose and not binding. -From a website detailing steps to overcome (!) masturbation. Good luck with that.

Otter watching holidays on the Shetland Islands.

Quirky facts about otters.

Are Nancy and Sluggo aware of something that eludes the rest of us? Are they blissed-out on some sort of kiddie tranquilizer? Or are those two lovable tykes attempting to hypnotize us to do their bidding? -Ernie Bushmiller's Nancy and Sluggo.

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AP: Wasps Released in La. to Combat Bugs. But who will stop the wasps?

Energy slang.

A Sociable Vulture, one of Captain Brown's bird prints.

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Bird house designs and its variations.

Features of a good birdhouse.

You're a grand old flag,
You're a high-flying flag,
And forever in peace may you wave.
You're the emblem of
The land I love,
So fuck Puerto Rico. Fifty stars is a nice round number,
and it's hard enough to memorize all the capitals as it is.
-Patriotic songs reworked for the modern age.

Mystery skull. Also, sharks of Kansas.

A beer battered deep fried bacon double quarter pounder. [via pcjm]

Nice, little collection of old Raleigh Bicycles advertising postcards. [via velorution]

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Captain Cornelius, defender of corn?

The truth behind SpongeBob. Also, where is caffeine found?

There used to be a time when Americans, Englishmen, even Germans would come sit in this taxi. But now I keep reading in the papers that they have all gone to India and China. Indonesia used to be powerful, when Suharto was still in power. I wish he still was here. Democracy has hurt our stomachs. -Taxi driver economics.

Lego-shaped ice cubes. [via andysblog]

A penny magnified 50 times. From the neat Micro Images Blog.

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SonicBrite: Artificial eye cleaning system.

Over two hours of video from a 1979 Rick Danko/Paul Butterfield concert.

Where old aeroplanes go to die (in France).

Unwanted wool now wanted.

Cheeseburger porn. From a site devoted to, um, cheeseburgers.

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What your rabbit is saying and how to speak back.

Bunnies at Easter: A Sad Story.

Depressing four-part series on the Korea/San Francisco sex slave network.

A short video demonstrating how the Jonsson Shrimp Peeling Machine works. Also, how to peel a shrimp manually. It all makes me very hungry.

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The reality of shark finning.

The world's largest telephoto lens.

Photos and a nice recap from this past weekend's bluegrass music festival in Golden Gate Park. We were there on Sunday and much enjoyed ourselves.

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Historic Grateful Dead concerts.

MP3s of ice cream truck music. Excellent. [via growabrain]

VW stories.

He also appeared in movies like "I Married a Woman" and even developed his own catch phrase ("Well I'll be a dirty bird"). Gobel appeared on the Hollywood Squares frequently before joining as a regular in 1972. He stayed until the very end. -George Gobel.

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The US Naval Observatory master clock.

Chicken wing eating techniques. Also, how to judge a chicken wing.

Why fat jokes aren't funny.

It's hawk migration time in the SF Bay Area.

Photos from yesterday's anti-war rally in San Francisco.

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A day in the life of the Superior Court of California, County of El Dorado.

Myths, misconceptions, and superstitions about spiders.

How to take a photograph out of a plane window. [via look at this]

Penny alcohol backpacking stove.

Sweet collection of pet food labels. Part of a neat exhibition at the University of South Carolina called Pets in America.

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AP: Clown Is Running for Mayor of Alameda.

Cycling legend Eddy Merckx takes a ride up in Marin County.

The Executive Coloring Book. [via coudal]

Quite a few meatloaf photos. More meatloaf.

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Spandex on a sheep. Spandex on a dog.

How to taste cheese.

Betty Crocker, an invented persona and mascot, is a brand name and trademark of American food company General Mills. The name was first developed by the Washburn Crosby Company in 1921 as a way to give a personalized response to consumer product questions. -Betty Crocker throughout the years.

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Meat. Just that.

"We had our little house, we had a few cattle and some crops, but all of it was taken by the volcano" in 2002, Ortega said. "We began from zero, with nothing." "We do not fear the volcano. What can we do?" she added, shrugging her shoulders. Sweeping the ground outside, Ortega's 5-year-old daughter, Yesenia, had a different view. "The volcano is a mountain that explodes and kills people." Yesenia said. "I am afraid of it." -Ecuadorians not afraid of volcanoes.

How Ed the Handyman uses a hammer.

Update on Robert Crumb's brother.

The disqualified round towers of Ireland.

A wet peloton passes through a forest during yesterday's Championship of Zurich pro cycling race.

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A tour of dive bars in Denver. [via mookie]

So there were parts of rural Uganda in which there were plenty of elderly men and women with mobile phones, but where the network signal was so weak that the only way to make a phone call was to climb up a tree on some nearby hill, and make your call while clinging to its branches. When old people begin to climb tall trees there is bound to be a sudden increase in falls and broken bones. -Interesting and unfortunate side effect of wireless technology.

A guide to grasshopper control in yards and gardens.

I think the U.S. Beer Drinking Team has a nice logo. I do.

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New book being released that details the Grateful Dead's gear.

A listing of golf courses located within 15 miles of Interstate 75.

Successful turkey hunting. Also, how to smoke a turkey.

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A bathtub car.