Fly-fishing videos and photos.

How to build a bird feeder.

Examples of teleprompters in use.

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A bicycling race simulation game. Sweet. [via chariotaku]

Babe Ruth and a Baltimore strip bar.

Phish's Coventry - 2 days of peace, love, bunk molly and wooks. [tnx mjmc]

Annie Leibovitz photo of Lance Armstrong nude.

Old photos of contortionists. More.

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A Mad Magazine quiz.

Photo galleries from the Comic Convention in San Diego last week.

If the host says, "I'm going to try this delicious sounding cheesecake; why don't you try dessert too," or "The prime rib is the specialty here; I think you'd enjoy it," then it is all right to order that item if you would like. -From Ball State University's guide to dining etiquette.

Society of the military horse.

New US postage stamps featuring Native American art.

Boston businesses not benefiting from Democratic convention.

Elevator history. Also a history of Buffalo's grain elevators.

Bicycling street smarts. Useful.

Top 10 bird feeding myths.

Where these charming bass socks when you go fishing you never know they might bring you good luck- One size fits all. -Fish socks. Perfect.

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A new, easy-to-understand media ownership chart! [via metafilter]

The persistence of weiner-dogs.

"Of course, I love Ozzy so much I sleep with one of his shirts on every night." -Ozzy Osbourne merchandise has sales of $50 million!?

Neat photo-finish photos from a track & field event. Like a cartoon but real. Or something.

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Pet strollers - ideal for your lazy, spoiled pet. [via presurfer]

A picture gallery of earthquake faults. Also visible fault features along the San Andreas rift zone in the Los Angeles vicinity.

Free Dave Matthews Band concert in San Francisco. [tnx j]

McIntyre, PA: The everyday life of a coal mining town: 1910-1947.

Lance Armstrong toasts US Postal team director Johan Bruyneel as he rides to his sixth win. Wow.

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Inflatable iceberg. Also a mansion dog house with porch.

3-D photos of cats. Also a cookie cutter shaped like a Dachshund dog.

Great photos of a viaduct in France. [via thingsmag]

Great photos of an accident involving a car & a swimming pool. [via growabrain]

A who's who of protesters at this weeks Democratic convention in Boston.

117 pork and beans recipes. Also pork and beans and pot.

Super bicycle alarm clock. Also Bike writer.

Cycling passes & climbs of Europe. Also the world's lightest bicycle.

Zen and the art of fixing a flat tire.

The peloton through the looking glass. Tour ends Sunday in Paris.

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Here they come! Tugboat racing on Puget Sound.

In July 1969 a small fragment (about 30 cm long) fell on the deck of a German ship in the Atlantic Ocean. Other pieces fell in the water near the ship. -Database of found space debris.

Shuttle-Bike Kit - Ride your bike on the water with the inflatable bicycle boat in a backpack. -Way cool. Check out the videos.

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Mike Piazza's totally not gay pad. [via nyish]

European Space Agency's satellites confirm the existence of rogue waves.

Long distance walkers association. Also the first verified walk around the world.

Photos of some guy next to a bunch of towers in Japan.

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Be stuck on Take a cruise through the Caribbean with Styx, REO Speedwagon and Journey! [via coudal]

BBC: Beer-loving bird barred from pub.

Windmills and watermills at the supermarket!

By winning yesterday's stage, Lance more than likely won his sixth tour. The man is an absolute machine.

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Bicycling energy calculator. Also chocolate bicycles.

Wilf Lunn's bicycle sculptures. [via growabrain]

Ten of the best bicycling climbs in North America.

USA Today looks at the Tour de France's podium girls.

Basso chases Armstrong down a descent in yesterday's stage. Today's time trial up l'Alpe d'Huez should decide who will be wearing yellow in Paris on Sunday.

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The Simpsons help children understand electricity.

Chinese knot gallery.

Superstitions from Europe. Also werewolf legends from Germany.

But a perceived injury to the distinctly male body part must be set up with the proper amount of distance, even empathy, to provoke belly laughs instead of painful groans. -Research finds that men getting hit in the groin always gets the laughs. Just like Homer said. [via obscurestore]

Songs of Brazilian birds. Also native songbirds in color and sound.

Growth of a starfish.

Celebrities with acne. [via metafilter]

Jesus=Coleslaw.

How to iron the flawless pantaloons. Also how to build a volcano in a bottle.

Phish's 2003 "It" concert to be broadcast on PBS.

Tasteless iron-on T-shirts from the 70s and 80s.

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The Schnitzel Depot is all about "schnitzels". Why not try a Vienna Schnitzel - one of children's most loved dishes? -One of the many available food choices at Legoland Deutschland.

Facts & figures about supermarkets. Also Civil War food.

The chemistry behind everyday products. [via corsinet]

Greatest grilled cheese sandwich in America contest.

Frequently asked questions about closed captioning.

The artwork of Marilyn Manson.

Lance Armstrong and Ivan Basso ride up Plateau de Beille through swarms of Basque fans in Saturday's stage. Rest day today followed by a few days in the Alps.

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BASE-jumping photographs.

How to set up a tent in the back of a pick-up truck.

CNN interview with The Dead. [tnx mjmc]

The musical saw.

Virtual harmonica museum.

How to answer nature's call while riding in the Tour de France.

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"He's dancing on his pedals in a most immodest way!" -Collection of quotes by legendary cycling commentator Phil Liggett.

What was Stage Nine like? Beautiful, and boring, until the end. Two riders staged a dramatic breakaway for 70 long miles. But right at the finish line, the peloton caught up with them. I had watched more than two hours' worth of bike racing to see a 172-way tie. -Boston Globe reporter watches a stage of the Tour.

Glassblowing on postage stamps.

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The world's longest railway tunnels. Also exotic diesel locomotives.

Miles of mules.

There are no accurate figures on how many sardines make the passage, but huge shoals 15km long and 4km wide have been known to hug the coastline for more than 1,000km. -Photo is of birds diving for snacks during the annual sardine run off the coast of South Africa. More photos.

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Photos of mirages in Finland, Norway, Australia and at Badlands National Park.

Photos of a deer hunt with Hank Williams Jr. [via incoming signals]

Little boy urges on a pained looking Tyler Hamilton in yesterday's stage. Watch for Lance to make his move tomorrow during the climb up La Mongie.

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One of America's Most Wanted™ is an LSD-selling deadhead named Jason.

A Delaware college student ate a bag of hallucinogenic mushrooms and drove around in a pair of stolen cars before arriving, confused, on a mountain in northwest Connecticut. -Oh to be in college again.

Complete text of Bill Clinton's new book in .pdf format. [via presurfer]

Messy legal battle over who gets Bill Monroe's mandolin.

A history of American agriculture 1776-1990.

The crowd and the jumbotron at the finish of stage 9. Today's stage finally brings the mountains and the real race begins.

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Tour de France drinking games. Also a Slashdot thread on the tech of the Tour.

What is Bastille Day? Also La Marseillaise, the French National Anthem.

How to build simple telegraph sets.

Large collection of frogs on postage stamps.

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Often despised pitcher Roger Clemons' wife has a website. It's kinda scary.

From Craigslist: Free Yucky Couch (with Uncomfortable Fold-Out Bed).

Pink limo parked in front of our building on a sunny Sunday afternoon.

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The vocabulary of urban sprawl.

The 50-calibre machine guns, we believe send a very clear signal to anyone who's engaged in illegal fishing that we're very serious about what we're doing. -Antarctic research ship hunts for poachers.

What to eat in Greece and how to order it.

Illustrated guide to how an autopsy is performed. [via burp]

The iceberg photography of K. Bruce Lane. Also a database of ship collisions with icebergs.

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Real-time tracking of all P&O Nedlloyd freight and container vessels.

Art Bark - A website of photos of natural art in tree bark. Hmm.

The boy got to play on a firetruck over the weekend. I did too.

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Carving meat and poultry.

Frequently asked questions about Popeye.

Babes and airplanes.

The Tour de France takes a rest day today as it prepares to enter into the Pyrenee Mountains.

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Anti-smoking postage stamps. [via neurastenia]

Photos of aerial banners.

Foreign food terms.

How to dress Emo. Also an incomplete list of musical terms.

A bloody Angel Vicioso, of the Liberty Seguros team, rides on after crashing hard in yesterday's stage.

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Aerodynamics in sports equipment. Also medical illustrations.

The governor gave a steely grin and then stalled a bit. "The angles would be. If I was going to guess. Three-four- five. Three-four-five. I don't know, 125, 90 and whatever remains on 180?" -Guv'nor Jeb Bush unable to answer geometry question from a statewide assessment test he is pushing. He's stupid. [tnx mjmc]

A list of single dads appearing on TV shows, 1952-Present.

Do you smell? [via bacon & ehs]

Neuroscience on stamps. Also the brain alphabet.

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Monkeys hooked on hash? Also monkeys on The Simpsons.

How to make a grilled cheese sandwich.

Earliest uses of various mathematical symbols.

Cool baseball murals from artist Max Mason.

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Kangaroos don't come bounding out of the bush looking for people to attack, it's usually kangaroos minding their own business and people thinking they're cute and cuddly and getting too close. -Hungry kangaroos attacking Australians.

The big banana.

Lt. Blender's frozen concoctions. [via off on a tangent]

Bone Clones - osteological reproductions.

Lance Armstrong faces a sea of cameras and microphones after taking the yellow jersey yesterday.

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Three bottles of Tour de France wine.

A fly swatter clock. Also a photo of a country fried steak meal.

Neat, zoomable detailed illustration of a cruise ship. [via kottke]

Iban Mayo, one of Lance's main rivals, crashed yesterday and lost a lot of time. He's likely to lose more time in today's team time trial and his hopes for a podium finish may be already gone.

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Bicycle music. Also how not to get hit by cars while bicycling.

Fantastic line art and laundry shapes.

Collection of early Simpsons' production art.

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The Big Nose Appreciation Page. Also read your own toes!

Peter has a small horseshoe-shaped scar on his right cheek. In Dr. Octopus's lab, as Octopus is destroying the fusion reactor, they share a meaningful look and the scar has switched cheeks. -From a list of errors in the new Spiderman movie. [via slashdot]

How to walk gracefully.

Basics of space flight.

The Tour de France finally entered France this morning after spending the first three days in Belgium.

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The unrivaled ink corrosion show of horrors.

Photos from The Dead's concert last week at Shoreline Amphitheatre.

One-of-a-kind holograms.

Beer as a teaching tool.

International Human Powered Vehicle Association.

Useful & easy to follow anti-telemarketing counterscript. [via cynical-c]

The Restop Personal Lavatory System is like carrying your own portable bathroom stall, without the weight (or the wait). The tent pops up in seconds and is zipped from the inside so you don't have to worry about pranksters. -Restop portable bathrooms.

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Broccoli Man™ Appearances!

The talking toaster.

"I was a confused young woman infatuated with Michael Douglas and have not rational explanations for my actions." -Catherine Zeta Jones' stalker apologizes.

What does gravity smell like?

Recent rock concert posters. More.

The world's only ass-kicking machine. I could use one.

Diary of a pyro.

A free fireworks coupon (offer invalid for children under 10 in Tennessee).

Fun with Grapes - A Case Study.

A lemon-powered clock. More lemon power info.

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Coming soon - Grateful Dead matchbox cars.

Large collection of free fonts.

Miniature food and other stuff made from polymer clay. That's mini spaghetti and meat sauce.

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Art by Zimbabwe street kids.

Cycling TV - streaming broadband cycling video.