Get a free chili dog. [tnx mjmc]

Frogs and toads in color and sound.

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Follow Ellen Macarthur as she attempts to beat the record for sailing around the world solo.

Flying Down to Rio in Five Days Via Pan American. -One of many vintage airline T-shirts.

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Ice cream facts and trivia.

How to survive close encounters with bears.

Helicopter-towed aerial billboards over Hong Kong.

A CD full of the sounds of a Volkswagen Beetle. Also, VWs in film and video and a VW love seat.

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The hidden lives of fish.

The Mexican Academy of Tequila.

Inflight safety page.

Early Earth illustrations.

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Make your own globe.

Bling Bling pet jewelry for your dog!

Climbing-related humor.

Glossary of medieval art and architecture.

Large collection of surveyors in advertising.

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Clickable map of Canada. Also, fabulous facts about Australia.

Virtual mummy.

Historical telescopes in the Netherlands.

Taking a few days off to properly enjoy the Thanksgiving holiday. Updates should return by early next week.

Pet astrology.

Speed bartending a form of flair in that the fastest, most efficient way to make drinks involves multi-bottle pours; inverted catches and grabs; stylish, martial-art like movements; and even behind the back throws and catches from time to time. -Flair Bartenders' Association. Like a bad Tom Cruise movie but real. Just pour the damned drink :)

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Some interesting sounds. Also, the sounds made by the chinchillas.

Uses of seaweeds.

Stop shoveling out from under your mailbox with our fully adjustable MailSwing package. The MailSwing will swing a full 360 degrees and return to center with no resetting! This allows the snowplow to clear the snow from under your mailbox without any damage! -Rural mailboxes.

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Locust recipes. Also, frequently asked questions about locusts.

Foxholes for infantry.

A guide to Puerto Rico winter baseball.

Illustrated glossary of alpine glacial landforms.

Santa rides his bike in Germany.

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Things to do today (as a bartender): Wake up (get dressed...), go to work at a non-stop party and get paid to socialize, make at least 20 new friends. -From the International School of Bartending's website. I must be going to the wrong bars.

The front pages of various college newspapers.

A replica of Willy Wonka's Golden Ticket. Part of the cool Wonka Facts megasite.

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Most pirates know in advance if the ship and its cargo is worth an attack, because they use state of the art equipment to monitor Inmarsat communications and even fax transmissions listing every single cargo item. -Eavesdropping on satellite communications and modern day piracy. [via boingx2]

How to build a snow castle.

The Steely Dan dictionary.

Paul Lynde's beef stew.

Prince Charles: Students not robots.

Christ, The Ultimate Buddy System -One of many inspirational paintings by Jim Davis. [via 1mansafari]

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A (not so) brief history of electrocardiography.

Grasshoppers of Wyoming and the West.

The Ouroboros biting its own tail is symbolic of self-fecundation, or the primitive idea of a self-sufficient Nature - a Nature, that is which, à la Nietzsche, continually returns, within a cyclic pattern, to its own beginning. -A collection of Ouroboros images.

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What's your BBC secret Christmas name? [tnx mjmc]

Guess the Christmas carol. Go on.

The true story of Casey Jones.

A boy, a girl, a dog, and a dream.

Fake World War II grenades.

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Croatia may reopen its most notorious communist-era prison for tourists willing to part with their money to re-enact the life of a political prisoner - including hard labour, stale food and nights in solitary confinement. -Pure genius. [via agonist]

Lots of celebrity love letters. Also, strange catfish facts.

Many, many photos and videos of women exhaling smoke. [via e-bort]

I'll never learn how to rest without a bike. It takes a great deal of effort to make myself put it aside for a couple of days, but it does me absolutely no good - I feel that something is missing, and small joys of life like fishing and the bath don't compensate for it. -From a recent interview with ironhorse cyclist Viatcheslav Ekimov.

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How to sit in a chair. It's not that easy. [via growabrain]

How fresh are your eggs? - An article in this month's issue of Conceive Magazine. At newsstands now!

Where is the International Space Station? [via metafilter]

Sounds of Antarctica. Also, tour the Ozone hole.

Animated engines.

Tips for prospective coin laundry owners.

2,831 old postcards of South Florida. [via life in the present]

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Whip making school.

History of elongated coins.

According to the first study to put people and their pets on a simultaneous diet and exercise program, experts found both lost weight and kept it off. Dogs did better than owners, but owners said they had fun, something people rarely say about their diets. -Lose weight by sleeping more and getting a pet!

Scans of various macaroni and cheese packages.

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Beer bottle cap art.

Ted's Indian arrowhead and artifact collection.

Wholesale payphone outlet.

Timeline of Swanson TV dinners. [via j-walk]

Winning images from the 2004 College Photographer of the Year competition.

Illustration of the first man-propelled submarine, built by David Bushnell in 1776. Found at NOAA's very cool art and poetry archive.

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The people. Yes, they're cartoons, but Homer, Marge, Lisa, Bart and the rest of the 60 regulars are more human than many characters in live-action sitcoms (you know who you are, "Hope & Faith") -From a list of 16 reasons to still like The Simpsons.

Safe Breaker's tools. Circa 1929.

Fishing cats. Also, catfishing.

LED pimp bed. Sweet. [via slashdot]

"Whenever it saw me, it probably took on the facial expression I had on because I was dumbfounded. It just watched me as I drove by." Asked if it might have been a bear, she replied, "No chance at all." -Woman sees and sketches ape-like swamp creature. In Florida, of course. [via obscure store]

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Antique whiskey bottle hall of fame.

Let's build a stereo-zoom microscope.

Celebrities who bicycle. [via velorution]

True stories submitted by real-life morons.

Vesuvius, Italy.

With car jackings on the rise, your auto glass may be all that stands between your family and violent criminals. Auto glass treated with the incredible new Window Armor is almost impenetrable, even under the most violent attacks. -Unbreakable windows.

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Doughnut eating tips.

A 72 ounce steak in 72 hours?

Eric "Badlands" Booker - America's favorite competitive eater.

The money laundering cycle. With diagram.

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NOAA's world glacier inventory. Also, iceberg photos of Newfoundland and Labrador.

A sightseer's guide to engineering.

Walk through a hydroelectric project.

History's largest ocean liners.

We're talking "HUGE" folks! Don't try to play drums with them, they're just for fun. Put 'em in the corner of the room and watch people flock to them. An awesome conversation piece! -Giant drumsticks. Perfect.

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The history of pasta.

Turkey meat is politically correct! Also, a turkey and stuffing calculator.

Top 20 hazardous substances!

Island Bottles collects and flattens the finest alcohol bottles from over 300 island bars. Flat Bottles are as functional as they are fun and decorative. -Flattened liquor bottles, all the rage in Key West.

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Alaskan auroral activity forecast.

AramcoBrats are the folks who grew up in the oil camps of the Arabian- American Oil Company (ARAMCO) in Saudi Arabia.

NewFoundlandersAbroad.com - A Web site for Newfoundlanders living abroad.

Photos from late 1800's Lebanon, Syria, Palestine and Egypt taken by the Bonfils.

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Ships of the Orient on postcards. Also, how well do you know the Middle East?

Interview with pizza delivery guy from Fast Times at Ridgemont High. [via diversionz]

Design a custom wooden clothes hanger.

Alien Caribbean frogs in Hawaii.

Doc Wilson's ice cream, bagpipes, and airplanes website.

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Over 218 ideas to use cookie cutters for other than just making cookies!

Updates from the Vendée Globe, an around-the-world, single-handed, non-stop, without assistance yacht race.

24 hours in the life of a Pacific Coast Trail thru-hiker.

Still life in the garage - the paintings of Chad Wooters.

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Stereotypes are incredibly useful for helping us reduce hard-to-understand cultures and peoples to terms that we can relate to - nay, even feel superior to! It doesn't particularly matter whether the stereotypes are accurate as long as we have a vacation to remember. -From a list of advice for picking the perfect souvenir.

Famous shipwrecks worldwide.

Simpsons movie due out in 2008.

Companion website to 'The Persuaders', last night's Frontline episode on marketing and advertising in a clutter-filled world. Both interesting and disturbing.

Photos of old Asian trams.

Fascinating facts about the Library of Congress!

2000 uses for peanut butter.

Small collection of Guatemalan slingshots.

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Fargo, North Dakota - Its history and images.

Glossary of insurance terms.

Why is it harder to walk uphill?

Dubbed the “No-Contact Jacket”, this exo-electric armor protects the wearer by emitting a high voltage shock that interrupts a would-be assailant’s neurological impulses which control voluntary muscle movement. The attacker is thus temporarily “turned to jelly”. -Defensive fashion. [via velorution]

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Injuries due to falling coconuts.

Having trouble finding your favorite Snickers® product? Seriously?

Seen at Union Square yesterday: Gold statue street artist gets caught moving while woman in sweater has some sort of disturbing inner vision. I think.

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Furniture made from old aircraft parts.

Facts About Multiples - An online encyclopedia of multiple births. Fakers beware!

You too can learn Spanish!

How to do the Heimlich maneuver.

Eagles may soar, but weasels don't get sucked into jet engines. -From a collection of Steven Wright quotes.

Tales from Val Lupiz, a gripman on a San Francisco cable car.

US out of San Francisco! Fuck yeah.

California kite art. Also, the masters of kites in Japan.

"I'm drinking plenty of bottles of beer and the exercise is helping to boost the muscles in my wrist. Fordham, who is receiving "treatment" at his pub in Kent, has not thrown a dart for weeks after falling and breaking his right wrist. -Beer heals.

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Old Virginia newspaper mastheads. [via life in the present]

High resolution mouse brain atlas.

She sounded horse. Not hoarse, but like an actual horse after it had been run through the glue factory. On top of that she kept clutching at her crotch. But, again, not in the boastful manner that someone such as Nelly normally does; more like someone who might be suffering from a raging case of something nasty. -From a review of Courtney Love's show in San Francisco last week.

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Scuba diver photo gallery.

Satellite photo of the construction of an island resort off the coast of Dubai. [via a welsh view]

AP: Naked Man Hides in Plane Wheel Well.

Bitter pills.

Electing to Leave - A reader’s guide to expatriating on November 3. A little late, sorry. [via metafilter]

Questions to ask your doctor before you have surgery.

Colours of Football - A huge collection of football uniforms from around the world.

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The day they invented the skateboard.

How to inline-skate with your dog. Also, camping with your dog.

Used carnival rides.

Lots of old Australian Rules Football cards and memorabilia.

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The practice of using soft drinks in lieu of pesticides, which are 10 times more expensive, is gaining so much popularity that sales of the drinks have increased drastically in remote villages. -Farmers in India using Coke and Pepsi on their crops.

The apparently odd behaviour of sunrise/sunset times near the winter solstice.

You can be a squid!

Women of Wrestling erotic fiction. Good luck in there.

Ladies weapons. [via growabrain]

BBC: Tidal wave threat 'over-hyped'.

How to capture Thanksgiving with your camera.

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Old Farmer's Almanac guide to setting your table.

Was it really possible that roughly the population of Madrid or Chicago had squeezed into Boston and the Cambridge side of the Charles River to see the World Series champions rumble by in duck boats? How did they get here? How did they get home? Where did they all park? -Estimating the crowd size at Saturday's Red Sox victory parade in Boston.

A bedroom made of books. [via cynical-c]

The Fish Highway. Quite possibly the coolest thing I've ever seen.

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Skeleton folk art. [via life in the present]

Virtual reality movie clip of San Francisco's Warfield Theater. Others too.

Health related hoaxes and rumors from the CDC.

Fight The Bite - Colorado's anti-mosquito campaign.

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Glossary for the modern soap maker.

National Graphic takes you inside the US Secret Service.

The fan of the month at former KISS drummer Peter Kriss's website.

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Some rather disturbing accident report fatal facts. [via incoming signals]

Illustrated dictionary of jewelry. Also, Ken's fluorescent minerals.