A special policeman smashes five bottles of beer in a single blow at an anti-terrorism exercise in Seoul.

How to make a splint basket.

Ivan Basso climbs in yesterday's stage of the Giro d'Italia.

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Photo of custom bicycle built for basketball player Yao Ming. Damn!

Creating rhythm patterns with Morse Code.

Subway etiquette.

The evolution of the Sven-Tiki mug.

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A clean hotel will lead to more business. Seems reasonable.

Miss Catfish.

The BBQ Museum. Also, the Ugly Brothers' grillosophy.

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Ultimate barbeque islands. Some of those are bigger than our entire apartment.

Photographs of at home sausage production.

To reach this mythical summit definitively seemed to be a dream; despite the obvious difficulties of the target to be reached, the aircraft demonstrated its capability to cope with the situation, sublimated by the magic of the place. -Helicopter lands atop Mt. Everest.

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Anatomy of soft and hard ticks.

Bicycle messengers and Lincoln SUVs?

Alex Rodriguez is in therapy? What a dumbass.

Geographic distribution of major hazards in the US.

Landslide images.

Posters from the Cannes Film Festival, 1952-2001. [via rashomon]

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The Port of Hong Kong in pictures.

Greenland: A photo journal by University of Colorado scientists.

Bicycle propaganda for the taking.

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Long, informative update on bicycle politics in San Francisco.

Glossary of caving terms. Also, gangsta cave mappers.

Major League baseball players born in the Dominican Republic.

Really nice woodcut prints of Mt. Tamalpais, the High Sierra, Big Sur and many other places by Marin County artist Tom Killion.

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Antarctica Ice Marathon. Sounds like fun.

Photos of custom swimming pools.

Locals hope the bridge will stop the marauding macaques from stealing their crops. "It's a battle of wits between humans and monkeys," a local resident said. "I hope the bridge will stop them coming down to places where humans are living." -My money's on the monkeys. [via a welsh view]

1795 - The Philadelphia and Lancaster Turnpike Road. One of many paintings by Carl Rakeman.

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With recent marketing research concluding that young children are up to 350 percent more responsive to the five senses than adults, and especially to smell, marketers are hoping to capture future consumers by putting signature smells in ordinary baby products that will later evoke positive memories. -May god save us from marketers.

Interesting facts about school buses.

Donut eating tips. Also, the I-70 mountain corridor. [both via growabrain]

Mrs. Bush heckled in Jerusalem. Mr. Sharon heckled in New York. Seems fair.

From yesterday's Giro stage in the Italian Alps.

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Children's salmon art.

How to become a hunky window washer. I think.

Many photos of dogs catching frisbees.

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Football temples of the world.

Two things that happened over the weekend that have never happened before:
1) I got a flat tire in the middle of a bike ride in the middle of nowhere. I had a spare tube but no pump. It took a while to get home.
2) We almost ran over Barry Bonds, who was coming out of Morton's Steak House, with our baby stroller. He looks healthy.

Antelopes of Africa.

A researcher at Zurich University studying elephants filmed them at night for several weeks. The evidence shows that some daredevil mice were not afraid to climb over sleeping elephants in order to steal their leftovers. Yet the elephants' sleep was not disturbed by the little creatures. -Elephants & Mice.

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Dogshit in Amsterdam. [via growabrain]

Common fishing methods in the Cook Islands.

Learn to yodel!

The peloton climbs during yesterday's stage 11 of the Giro d'Italia.

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Pot smoking etiquette quiz. Also, the sound of thunder.

How to look after your hippopotamus.

It appears quite a few of you are ending up here while searching for Bill Murray's (AKA Nick Winters) rendition of the Star Wars theme song . Here it is. Enjoy. [1.1 MB MP3]

Asian ingredient guide. Also, an automatic Chinese food selector.

Menu from Shanghai's Sun Ya restaurant, circa 1935.

The Great 2005 Peking to Paris Expedition.

Scans of many Asterix books in English. Wow. [via look at this]

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Learn bird songs!

The ultimate portable water-skiing slalom course!

San Francisco bike messengers a dying breed.

It's Bike to Work Day today. I don't participate since work is just two miles away and I prefer to walk. Nonetheless leave your car at home and bike, bike, bike.

339 puke synonyms. Excellent. [via mookie]

Photos and information from an amateur high altitude balloon flight. [via slashdot]

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Article on bicycle valet parking at San Francisco Giants' games.

Breakfast in China. Also, bicycle breakfast kitchens.

How to transplant cacti and succulents.

Moms on boards. Clever name.

Nice photo gallery of Boston street musicians.

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What are ice spikes? Also, different types of ice.

BBC: Technology 'baffles old and poor'. Film at 11.

The worst foods to eat over a keyboard. [via slashdot]

Slang of the 1920s.

Exhaustive reviews of Godzilla movies, 1954-2004.

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Tom Claytor - Bush Pilot.

Windy things to make.

Despite their lack of wing-like appendages, flying snakes are skilled aerial locomotors. -Just what we need now, flying snakes. [via diversionz]

Helicopter aerodynamics.

"Uh, folks, we're experiencing some moderate Godzilla-related turbulence at this time, so I'm going to go ahead and ask you to put your seatbelts back on. When we get to 35 thousand feet, he usually does let go, so from there on out, all we have to worry about is Mothra, and, uh, we do have reports he's tied up with Gamera and Rodan at the present time. Thank you very much." -From a Simpsons episode.

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Bear characteristics.

Is Yoda Amish?

Fire lookout cabin rentals in California.

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Superstitions in the game of craps.

Some fear that HoJo's and its trademark orange roofs, fried clams and timeless air will soon go the way of the Studebaker, a victim of modern times and increased competition. If that happens, an icon of American dining and one of the nation's first full-service restaurant chains will disappear. -The end is near for Howard Johnson restaurants.

Crosswalks for butterflies.

American David Zabriskie easily winning yesterday's individual time trial in the Giro d'Italia.

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Happy Birthday Gumby!

Five pages of old Ford Mustang advertisements.

Forty-six pages of chess graphics.

My models are great choices for unique masculine gifts, employee incentives, art collectors, construction workers, or anyone else who has a deep appreciation for the beauty of the equipment that affords us to work, play, and live. -Kickass wooden models.

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The Mouth and Foot Painting Artists website.

Lance Armstrong interview in this month's Playboy. Naked ladies too!

A wooden bicycle. [via metafilter]

A nun and two elderly women applaud cyclists as they ride by, during the fifth stage of the Giro d'Italia cycling race, in Celano, Italy, Thursday, May 12, 2005.

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Exploring the culture of Miami's Little Havana.

Drive-in theatres in Wisconsin.

Once again, thanks to our trusted babysitter connection, we're off to see tonight's Phil Lesh & Friends show at the Warfield. Woohoo!

Do you speak "Carousel"?

A few cool galleries of random bicyclists in San Francisco. If you look carefully you'll see what surely must be my identical, and possibly evil, twin brother. Steer clear.

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Coin purses. Literally.

History of the British Postbox.

They have launched a database to record and monitor incidents during games. Additional security cameras that can zoom in on individuals and produce photos of bad behavior are being installed. -The Red Sox try once again to make Fenway friendly. Heh.

The FBI files on Puerto Ricans.

Photos and clip art from the National Watermelon Promotion Board.

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Each mission represents a part of the process of delivering food aid to an area in crisis. The final mission shows you how food aid can help people rebuild their lives in the years following a disaster. -Food Force, a video game from the United Nations.

From the BBC: Whale hunting with the Norwegians and commuting in Tehran.

The world of boxes.

Etiquette for wine drinking, tasting and serving.

A brief history of the wine glass.

Yet another collection of vintage bicycle posters. [via rashomon]

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Very neat, real-time animated updates of the Giro d'Italia. Click on Tempo Reale.

Up on Mount Soledad, Janet Andrews is reporting it rained shrimp on April 28. She and others found masses of baby shrimp on the tennis courts of the Summit residential development. -It rains shrimp in San Diego. [via boingx2]

How to photograph baseball.

How NOT to build a Drive-in theatre.

How to do tombstone rubbings.

Want to make sure your cap keeps its curve? Want a more "extreme" curve to your cap? Just "dial" the MilliCurves you want, then put your cap in the Cap Curver and let it sit. -The Perfect Curve cap curver contraption.

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Bet on and track which albatross completes the Australia-South Africa migration over the Southern Ocean first.

A nun died after being run over by a cement truck in Oakland yesterday. That's one angry god.

Cap'n Salty's Puppet Wash.

Factory farming photo gallery. Sorry.

The artwork of Olympia, Washington artist Nikki McClure.

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Some clients are stuck in a bad relationship. Others are in a dead end job, or are suffering stress at work. As a life coach, you can unblock these problems, liberate these people, and set them on a new course. What could be more exciting! The market is vast. At one time or another, everyone needs advice. -Become a life coach!

Paolo Bettini happily wins stage one of the Giro d'Italia.

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All about woodchucks.

San Francisco has lost its middle class, become a 'theme park for restaurants,' and is the playground of the nomadic rich and restless leeches living off them. -So true and so sad.

After nearly 25 years of smoking, I have been cigarette-free for three weeks.

Information and treatment for heat strokes in guinea pigs.

"The one that got away" -One of several very neat wood carvings by Nova Scotia folk artist Clifton Sears.

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A homeless teen's account of living on the streets in San Francisco.

Photojournalists have been hit by errant baseballs, knocked down by basketball or football players and struck by hockey pucks that have squeezed through lens-sized slits in the rink boards. -The dangers of being a sports photographer.

How to perform strong man stunts. Useful. [via cynical-c]

BBC: Fat wallets produce fat stomachs.

All about hail and hail storms.

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Christian Cheerleaders of America. Yikes.

Foosball - The movie.

Charlotte - The Vermont whale.

A few photos from a 1978 Jerry Lee Lewis concert at the Great Southeast Music Hall in Atlanta, Georgia.

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Kill two birds and get stoned - A simple approach to growing pot.

Salads from fast food restaurants not really healthy. [via a welsh view]

Carved golf balls.

Cool, hunger-inducing poster of Texas BBQ pits.

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Roasting rules.

Introduction to pizza.

Long, interesting audio interview with Jerry Garcia in room 1503 of the Raddison Hotel in St. Paul, Minnesota on July 10, 1981. Drugs may be involved.

Katja Löffler sent a letter to Eurosport asking whether they could help give her husband Michael a special birthday present: some kind of training session with his favourite cyclist Jens Voigt. But it had to take place on a tandem, because both she and her husband are blind. -Pro cyclist Jens Voight takes blind couple for a ride.

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Bicycle messengers and high speed Internet access. Not so compatible.

Compromising locks.

Passenger list of the RMS Titanic. [via b-rivets]

Have you ever stopped to think about why anyone would want to deliver pizza? Why some drivers have been delivering for 30-40 years, and why some people are even dropping out of the corporate world to become PIZZA DRIVERS? -How to make up to $38 per hour delivering pizza. Shazam!

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Whatever happened to Polio? [via corsinet]

Tips and tricks for the practice of billiards.

Newsbreakers - disrupting live remotes everywhere! A repeat I think, but still great stuff. [via look at this]

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Cadillac bicycles. Yikes. [via even the devil rides]

Be careful where you ride: Bike rider gets shot in the buttocks.

(1)Telephones frequently have static or tones or echoes; you have lots of "wrong number" calls. (2) Repeated evidence of breakins, small scale thefts, and sabotage both at home and at work. (3) Fake, loud bird calls, outdoors, which follow you everywhere. -Some of the signs that you're being psycho-electronically harassed.[via j-walk]

How's Your Dog? Coming very soon. I'm sorry.

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BBC: Boys 'still want to drive trains'.

Very large collection of bicycling clip art. [via bike lane diary]

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May Day was yesterday.

Green People - World's largest, directory of eco-friendly products.

Radar-tagged butterflies.

I'll tell you the things that I regret. I regret that we didn't stand up and say let's stop touring and try to save ourselves from going down in a very negative way. That's what happened to Jerry, and before him to several other members of the band. -The Grateful Dead's Phil Lesh.

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What's a real San Franciscan?

Follow Anne Marte Pensgaard's trek across Greenland via Google maps.

Man dies the day after bicycling across the US to celebrate his successful heart surgery. Damn.

Mexican Restaurants are a great bargain for families. Mexican places will usually bring you a big free bowl of hot corn chips and salsa before your food arrives. Most kids will fill up on these chips even before the food arrives. -Kids eat free! [tnx mjmc]