How to become a TV news cameraman.

"News You Can Trust from People You Know" -WSCS (CBS) Charleston, SC
"Thirteen Means News" -WVEC (ABC) Norfolk, VA
"Straight To The Point Non-Stop News" -WAWS (Fox) Jacksonville, FL
-From a very comprehensive list of local TV news slogans. "News You Can Count On" appears to be the most popular.

Wind erosion and dustbowl movies.

A charming book about the day-to-day world of a cat named Russell who has republican values. Suitable for all ages. -This Is Russell: Russell Is a Republican, an illustrated book.

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Portrait of David Beckham in photography exhibit defaced with misspelled graffiti.

Racing cars up Massachusetts' Mount Washington.

How NY Times photographer Vincent Laforet takes a aerial shots.

Bob Roll's Tour de France preview.

A collection of classic camp stoves.

"We have girls from London, Seattle, California, all coming in for that week," said a madam at a Manhattan escort service. "It's the week everyone wants to work." -Call girls prepare for the upcoming Republican Convention in NYC.

How to stop a car with no brakes.

Let's play mustard geography. More mustard stuff.

Literary Locales - More than 1,100 picture links to places that figure in the lives and writings of famous authors.

Photos of things not to do on a unicycle.

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Tour de France weblog - an excellent source of Tour news.

Great interview with 5-time Tour de France winner Bernard Hinault.

Radios used by US Postal Service cycling team during races.

A couple photos from yesterday's Pride parade and festival.

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A robotic lawnmower.

Washing machine database.

An example of Ask MetaFilter's usefulness: What is the best place to aim in a standard wall-based men's urinal to minimize spray (on yourself)?

Behind the marketing blitz of the 2004 Euro Cup.

Subtract roughly 89 minutes of guitar wankery, 37 minutes of preaching (he could have just said, "Bush sucks!"), all references to the '70s, 12 percent of the mustache, plus that last cover song and, all in all, it was quite a great show. -Review from a recent Carlos Santana concert.

Fine art dog prints.

Audio and video of Abbott and Costello's 'Who's on First' bit.

Internet Tour de France Game 2004.

Vegetarian phrases in other languages..

The word "cow" in 539 different languages. "I am crazy" in 104 different languages.

Large collection of thematic wine labels.

Ego Tumbler (you owe yourself one). -Shot glasses from the gift shop of the Freud Museum in London.

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The Accessor™ is a patented design which combines a fashionable belt with a multi purpose functional bottle opener. It allows the user, whilst wearing the belt, to open bottled beverages. -The perfect gift for your thirsty, belt-wearing friends!

Old beer and brewery photography. Also photos of people enjoying beer.

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Party conventions, no longer contests to pick a presidential nominee, have over the last dozen years turned into trade shows for the political world and major entertainment venues for corporations and special-interest groups. -From a sad but not too surprising Boston Globe article.

A day in the life of a school bus driver.

Nice automobile art.

Yann Arthus-Bertrand, a French photographer perhaps best known for his incredible aerial photography, also takes some great photos of cows and pigs. [via !]

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Short history of graffiti-writing.

The first and last day of the Imperial Japanese Navy ship Shinano & other World War II combat stories.

Riding instructions for antique highwheel bicycles from Rideable Bicycle Replicas. [via growabrain]

Library Cartoons: An annotated bibliography.

Mobile phone antennas disguised as crucifixes pissing Germans off. [via boingx2]

Interview with Harry Shearer.

How to grow you hair out: for short-haired men interested in growing their hair out.

An illustrated guide to edible and poisonous mushrooms.

A chart of facial hair types from the Organization for the Advancement of Facial Hair.

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"I love them," he reiterated. "Phil Lesh and Warren Haynes, they're my favorites. They're still banging. I got my tie-dye. I'm going to sweat a lot before I go there so I smell a little bit. I got my Birkenstocks." -Colorado Rockies manager is a deadhead.

A website following American cyclists in the upcoming 2004 Tour de France.

A beer at SBC stadium costs more than at any other ballpark. I should know after downing quite a few last Friday at the Red Sox-Giants game. Bastards.

Large collection of police poetry.

The robot hall of fame.

John Falter's Saturday Evening Post cover art.

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Images from the history of medicine. Also medical antiques.

Final Frontier Jerky is available FREE to anyone flying on Soyuz, Space Shuttle, Shenzhou, or X-Prize spacecraft. Throughout history, jerky has been included on expeditions. We want to see that tradition continued as the Space Age comes of age. -Free beef jerky for astronauts.

The summer solstice.

Larry King wears diapers. [via romensko]

"Back-Handing the Left into Submission." -Right-Wing stickers and stuff.

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Now, due to an overwhelming demand Smith & Wesson is making it's leading edge "Tough as Steel" POLICE BICYCLES available to the general public. With your very own Smith & Wesson, your cycling experience will be a real "shoot out" -Smith & Wesson makes bicycles?

BBC: Sex films help panda get pregnant.

Handy illustrated guide to foul ball etiquette.

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Stupid secrets of the sue-happy Scientologists.

Campagnolo timeline.

12 foot tall world record SkyCycle. Wow. [via presurfer]

More vintage cycling posters. [via e-blort]

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Hurricane Isabel damage photos & video from Richmond and Central Virginia.

Poems about fatherhood.

Phil Lesh's Tampa Bay Lightning hockey jersey on Ebay.

The George W. Bush public domain audio archive.

Aboard a C-17 transport plane en route to Afghanistan. [via agonist]

Photos of the Great Wall of China.

Photos of fire lookout towers.

Label art from the Martinelli apple juice company.

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Review of the newly released DVD of the fourth season of The Simpsons.

It's unfathomable to me that, when Congress passed this law in 1930 and used the term 'fresh vegetable,' they ever could have conceived that large food-processing companies could have convinced USDA that a frozen battered french fry fell into that definition. -Frozen french fries are vegetables. Or something.

From Craigslist: Trade my tent for your house.

Pro cycling news: Vino's out of the Tour and so is Beloki; US Postal team will become the Discovery Channel team and Lance is not a doper.

The FBI files on Charles Bukowski.

Sleepy Eye, Minnesota - Your home town.

The Horton Collection - a large and tasty assortment of cycling posters, jerseys and other memorabilia. That's the poster from the 1979 World Championship in Amsterdam.

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'Proud American, Proud Republican' key chain - $10. Must be a nice key chain.

Throw a Bush/Cheney party!

The RNC Not Welcome in NYC website provides lots of useful anti-Bush/Republican propaganda.

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Most of the traffic in Times Square is foot traffic, and we have the added benefit of images being picked up in photographs, videos, movies, TV shoots, postcards and calendars. -The technology & money behind all the advertising in NYC's Times Square.

Poison frogs. Also stupid frog jokes.

T-shirts for sale near Fisherman's Wharf. I want them all.

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An online database of camouflage used by US Naval Warships. [via !]

Information on the U.S. Army's use of dogs 1942-Present.

Two pages of monkey art.

Very large listing of soccer songs & chants.

How a player piano works. More.

Hi, I am Crocodile, a professional over the road truck driver. I make my living on the Interstate systems of America and Canada. If you have ever wondered about the lives of those folks behind the wheel of the big rigs, this is where you can learn. -Crocodile's trucking site.

Today is Flag Day.

The art of barbering and the history of the barber pole.

Ice fishing stories and pictures.

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Chemistry carols & other chemistry songs.

Great chemists who aren't dead white guys.

Photos of the branded junk handed out at this week's Biotech Conference here in San Francisco. [via boingx2] Also photos of the protests.

History of women's boxing.

I think it is a large cantaloupe that has started to rot. I believe he was hit with it, causing him to develop psychic abilities. He keeps it on his head for fear of losing those powers. -From 'What is the white thing on that informercial psychic Gary Spivey's head?'

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Lava wave AM/FM clock radio.

MP3s of rapper Jay-Z's 'Black Album' set to the music of the Grateful Dead.

Helicopter cockpits.

What was the New Zealand monster?

And because it makes an extraordinary wall hanging it is the perfect gift for the person that has everything – and its made by you! -Give someone a sculpture of your face with your own face casting kit. Perfect.

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Daily photos and journal reports from this week's AIDS/LifeCycle bicycle ride from San Francisco to Los Angeles.

Inventing a new kind of pencil.

Helicopter sounds.

What color is the sun?

Bikes against Bush. [via cynical-c]

Car driving through Wawona Tunnel Tree at Yosemite National Park in 1929. From the National Park Service's historic photograph collection.

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In a situation when you can reasonably anticipate a goal, prepare your body by getting up off the sofa carefully so that you are already standing and then you can jump up and down, instead of springing off the sofa. -Advice on how to watch the Euro 2004 soccer tournament without getting hurt.

How many calories am I burning when I exercise?

A review of Madonna's recent show in San Jose.

From Craigslist: Free Dolls.

Old photos of Paris.

The price was far below the appraised value and anemic enough to disappoint its owner, a retired doctor who decided, somewhat reluctantly, to part with the memento after having it in his possession for nearly five decades. -Ted Williams' 1959 Boston Red Sox uniform auctioned off for $70,000

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42 Ways to get electricity from hamsters. [via negativesmart]

Historic photographs of early bodybuilders.

Old advertisements from the Kodak collector's page.

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The Tigers are not the first team to express their suspicions about the Metrodome's air currents. Former managers Whitey Herzog of St. Louis and Bobby Valentine of the Rangers also suggested the Twins manipulated the atmosphere to their advantage. -Minnesota Twins baseball team accused of using air conditioning to gain an extra home field advantage. Again. [via sportsfilter]

Meteorite stamps and coins.

A unicycle with a training wheel.

Goofy Bike - This fits an adult who rides rather high up. It is made out of a child's bike. This one needs work, and is really quite dangerous to ride. -Only $45.

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Fake money.

Dune buggy photos.

Newsflash: Kentucky Fried Chicken is not healthy.

Phil Lesh's ex-wife's digital watch for sale on Ebay. Or something.

Cycling stickers.

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The frog that learned to fly. [via thingsmag]

Rolling Stone article on the Phish breakup.

As tennis-lovers eat their strawberries they may be unaware of a dark brown presence swooping overhead - Mr Davis' hawk scaring away pigeons from the grounds. -Profile of the guy who keeps pigeons away from the Wimbledon tennis tournament.

Umpire and referee clothing.

Celebrity caricatures in America.

How a Sports Illustrated photographer shoots the Belmont Stakes.

Guide to mathematics and mathematicians on The Simpsons. [via slashdot]

They say that nothing is free these days - but ‘HUGS’ are one exception to the rule. For no cost whatsoever they can give you a real boost and make a bad day feel much brighter. -June 20-26 is National Hug Week in the UK.

How to test & eat unidentified wild food. Bonus: Acorn bread!

Baseball on postage stamps. [via growabrain]

"People don't even get knocked backward when they get shot, but you see this in the movies all the time. Unless the guy gets hit in the head or the spine, the most common reaction to getting shot is no reaction at all." -How it feels to get shot. [via obscurestore]

Clickable bombshells.

Gallery of art from Rush albums.

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A combination of two great pursuits, the game of chess and the fine art of drinking. Fill the shot glasses with two favorite beverages and begin to play. Capture an opponent's piece and drink the contents of the glass. -A shot glass chess set. [via tom mcmahon]

Giants and girls.

US clandestine radio equipment. [via thingsmag]

Kinda scary, kinda cool custom carved Jerry Garcia guitar. [via UJB]

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This past Saturday, Mr. Bush also rode the course at a Secret Service training facility near Beltsville, Md., where he could be seen at a distance in a group of up to 10 helmeted cyclists, trailed by a van and an ambulance. -NY Times compares the bicycling styles of George Bush & John Kerry.

Neat clickable map of all the routes taken to climb Mount Everest.

Um, a photo of cycling sprinter 'Super' Mario Cipollini nude.

A great collection of children's book covers of the early Soviet era.

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Photos of a hummingbird's nest. [via corsinet]

Public art in Cincinnati, Philadelphia and Los Angeles.

A better study might have been a comparison of doctors' ties with other articles of clothing they wear. He said a good follow-up would be to ask a group of well-dressed doctors to work without ties for two weeks and see whether there was a change in the overall risk of infection. -Study finds doctors' neckties are a nesting ground for germs. Germs!

So you want to learn Morse Code.

Nice driftwood art from John Dahlsen, an Australian environmental artist. Also Alaska driftwood.

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It'll be a very tough sell for a liquor brand to get women wanting to buy luxury goods to buy a Courvoisier branded garment unless its design and tactile qualities are exceptional, which is fairly unlikely. -Designer clothes made by a liquor company. Clearly the marketing industry is brilliant.

How to break up a dog fight without getting hurt.

Photos of champion Canadian female Basset Hounds

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"Miscreants nowadays make people senseless and take away their belongings," said Moshiul Alam, a duty doctor at the emergency department of DMCH. "They use chloroform and sometimes inject other chemicals like morphine and pethidine." -Rickshaw-jacking on the rise in Bangladesh. Damn those miscreants!

Driving and cannabis.