New Scientist has an amazing article backed by plenty of real research which shows 11 ways to a better brain.

This is so uber cool, so subversive, yet clean, it smacks of revolution! Check out this howto site for making Moss Graffiti.

[Geisha Asobi]

Despite the hoopla about fingerprint security, a la new laptops, and various security identification systems, the truth is they are quite easy to counterfit, as this how to guide illustrates.

Ever heard of Lenticular Clouds? Also known as Mammatus Clouds because they’re shaped like Mammary glands I guess, they were recently spotted in Joplin, MO.

Apparently Buddhism did not spring from Hinduism, or from Indian roots only as I had suspected, but rather from the Greeks. Here’s an image of early Buddhist monks. Here are some other images.

Thanks Jing.

Here’s an interesting bit about hyperlexia, and strangely divergent paths children can take to learning to read.

So who is the Pookah? Our favorite patron saint, Robert Anton Wilson talks about the original White Rabbit from County Kerry who drags happless drunkards into an alternate reality!

Now more than ever, the question of economy is on everyone’s mind. The dollar is falling, oil prices on the rise. What’s one to do? Old school small govt conservatives are very close to Anarchists when it comes to government-out-of-my-business philosophy. Read Murray Rothbard’s famous piece on money, the gold standard, and why the free market, not the government or Fed should manage money.

This Deviant Art site is essentially a photo gallery site, but there’s so much good user contributed artwork that the site has grown to be quite an amazing collection.

I was walking in the EV tonight, and found an old copy of ArtByte lying on the ground, though in perfect condition. Thumbing through it (Feb 2001) I ran into Gareth Branwyn so I did some searching around his site, and found this amazing Beyond Cyberpunk link. This was released at first as a hypercard stack. For those who don’t know, before the web, folks were trying to do web + multimedia type things on cdrom, and hypercard was an Apple standard for doing just that. This was very popular at that time, and is an interesting investigation into great writings and knowledge of that time.

You may think you know where most of the states are until you try the test. Even after taking it a couple of times, I couldn’t beat 65%. Coastal states are easy, but do you really know where Idaho is?

Just read on boingboing about this great site overheard in new york.

The Euthanasia Case: A New Yorker’s View

Dude: If Terri Schiavo’s head was filled with oil Dubya would drill into her skull himself.

Ya can’t make this kinda shit up!

For those who like FIVES there has to be a conspiracy hidden in there somewhere. Right now it is May 5, 2005, at 5:05pm!

Thanks Duncan for the tip.

It seems that Veg City Diner, beloved spot for NYC vegetarians, has been reborn as Curly’s Vegetarian Lunch.

Thanks to Dardos Burrito’s for the tip.

Not trying to feed the propaganda/fud machine here, but I have to provide for all of your conspiracy needs here folks. With that in mind, I give you this strange report.