Liquids On A Plane! Slightly non-worksafe picture (contains swearing).

Via boingboing_net.

Onion: Prohibitively High Rocket-Fuel Prices Bring Mideast Crisis To Standstill.

In the real world, oil is solidly above $75 a barrel.

Via, bizarrely, Lib Dem Blogs, comes news that The Cat Came Back is online. It’s a 1988 Canadian animation about a cat that kept coming back. It was on TV once or twice at the time, and we loved it as children.

the cat came back
the very next day
the cat came back
he thought he was a gonna
but the cat came back…

Escheresque pictures. My favourite is the one with the torch and the model Earth casting a shadow on the moon in the sky.

Evolution of Dance (6min video). Comedian performs six decades of dance routines in six minutes. It made me smile :-)

The transitions from one style to the next are done very well.

Via boingboing_net.

“My family has been having problems with immigrants ever since they came to this country.”

Carphone Warehouse is giving away free broadband net access if you take a certain landline phone plan, so not free really. But it looks a good deal.

Political voting in Eurovision. It’s only taken off recently.

4.3 A common objection to any academic analysis of the Eurovision Song Contest is that it is an irrelevancy … This view is itself now becoming something of an anachronism, as the potential of the contest for post-modern irony and its appeal to the homosexual community … have provided it with a certain alternative vogue … The contest is now an important cultural phenomenon meriting academic study.

Via mos_oddities.

Disappearing teaspoon study. “80% of the teaspoons disappeared.”

Via sphyg.

Tom Evslin has some thoughts on his self-publishing adventure.

Danah Boyd’s thoughts on identity.

This is wonderful: The Anagram London Underground Map (3098x2077 pixel image, 1.1Mb download).

Stations include:

• Aleph & Tentacles
• Escargot News
• No Screws
• Trivia Co

and my soon to be local tube station, Modern :-)

Via boingboing_net.

Don’t think I’d previously seen the phrase “political incorrectness gone mad”.

I have learnt the meaning of the word “contranym”. I like that one of the examples given is “literally”.

I like this.

Via boingboing_net.