Gene Luen Yang's comic storybook Prime Baby is a delight: Thaddeus is the older sibling to an adorable toddler, and he hates it. What's more, he's sure something's up with… Read the rest of the article: Prime Baby: kids comic story about kid sister who's more trouble than most

Update again: The search for truth goes on: yesterday morning, I blogged a study from the Cornucopia Institute on the use of the neurotoxin hexane in production of soyburgers, which… Read the rest of the article: Soyburgers laced with neurotoxins — UPDATED AGAIN

John Scalzi is a giant fan of H Beam Piper's classic science fiction novel Little Fuzzy (as am I — it's the first sf novel I bought for myself, from… Read the rest of the article: John Scalzi is a Fuzzy

This week's Search Engine podcast from TVOntario's Jesse Brown features an interview with the head spokesman for the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, brought on to explain why the publicly funded broadcaster… Read the rest of the article: CBC totally fails to explain why it expects Canadians to get permission to use public media

Thinking about going digging for gold in the dumpsters around your town? Start with the FAQ at Dumpsterworld, the online community for skip-spelunkers: There's many reasons that perfectly good things… Read the rest of the article: HOWTO Dumpster-dive

Jacques Pense designed this award-winning stationery for 13th Street, the German horror network. It has given me a scorching case of stationery envy. If I got a letter on this… Read the rest of the article: Horrifying stationery

My new mobile phone: iPad + Skype + Moshi Moshi 01H handset.

I went to church with a friend this past Sunday. I'm not religious, but I find it enjoyable to occasionally sit in on religious rituals to learn about different people… Read the rest of the article: Am I wicked because I don't go to church?

A store clerk is on trial right now for pointing a price scanner to a grumpy 12-year old girl's forehead. The girl's family claims the scan burned her, causing PTSD… Read the rest of the article: Family of grumpy girl claims store clerk injured her by scanning her head

UPDATE: Here is the complete scanned manuscript. Amy Crehore points to the original Alice story. What could be more beautiful than the original manuscript? This is the original version of… Read the rest of the article: Original "Alice" manuscript – none compares!

Japanese artist Koshi Kawachi uses old manga collections to plant and grow vegetables. [via Pink Tentacle]

Berkeley math professor Edward Frenkel collaborated with a French filmmaker to create an erotic short film called Rites d'Amour et de Maths; in it, a doomed mathematician discovers the formula… Read the rest of the article: Mathematician makes Mishima-inspired erotic film

Best known for his "irresponsible" art/game Lose/Lose — which deletes files from your hard drive every time you take aim at its retro-pixel-invaders and was classified as malicious by Symantec… Read the rest of the article: Soundshapes: Amit Pitaru/Zach Gage bring Sonic Wire Sculptor to iPhone

Internal memos recently posted to the BBC Archive reveal that Doctor Who's "regenerations," in which the Time Lord was replaced by a new actor, were meant to convey the experience… Read the rest of the article: Dr. Who's "regeneration" meant to be like bad acid trip

COOP scanned his collection of 1970s vintage Popy toy catalogs from Japan. According to Wikipedia, Popy was founded in 1971 as a subsidiary of Bandai and was "best known for… Read the rest of the article: Japanese robot figure catalogs from the 1970s

The unicorn taxidermy above is up for auction right now at Duke's Auctioneers as part of the "Brading Collection of Taxidermy, Waxworks, Costume and Similar Items." The collection is from… Read the rest of the article: Amazing and weird taxidermy auction

Now available as prints at Zazzle, a series of arcade game propaganda posters for Donkey Kong, Dig Dug, Frogger and Joust (above) by illustrator Steve Thomas. [via SuperPunch]

Illustrations like this make the cell look like a reef in some alien tropical ocean. Gorgeous! There's more cool biology images where that came from on the A Journey Round… Read the rest of the article: The illustrated cell

I don't remember when I first experienced the work of Czech artist and animator Jan Švankmajer. Maybe late-night arts programming on cable TV, or an obscure indie film fest. His… Read the rest of the article: Svankmajer, Surrealism, and the Sex Pistols: John Cusack

What happens when rats play The Prisoner's Dilemma. (Via Mark Changizi)