If you want footage of disembodied dog hearts beating in a lab, you can find it here.

O'Reilly's Dale Dougherty finds an image of a hand wearing pink finger condoms while browsing Google Books.

Austin Cantina is an Austin-themed restaurant in downtown Seattle. Living in Austin, this seems like a strange idea, but, from reading the review, it doesn't sound like the recipes are very true to Austin.

This BBC documentary reveals the US Military's interest in psychics and other fringe folks.

I don't know what this is, but it's cool.

Are hipsters now embracing the douchebag label?

JonL points to this chronology of the underground bookstore of yesteryear.

BF Skinner invented crowdsourcing in 1944.

I didn't realize there were enough .pdf magazines to merit a portal devoted to the projects. I guess they're like podcasts for print designers and 'zinesters, or maybe it's just a German thing.

The movie Zyzzyx Road grossed a total of thirty dollars in its six-day run at a Dallas movie theater.

A 1939 recording of Cary Grant's vocal performance of the FCC's station identification rules.

Via Nigel. Apparently, the camels imported to Texas in the 19th century "smelled horrible, frightened horses, and were detested by handlers accustomed to the more docile mules."

I think this has been around since at least 2003, when a vandal added some text about WMD in Iraq.

"Cory Arcangel decided that he would write his own glockenspiel parts to fit all of the songs on [Bruce Springsteen's album] Born to Run that don’t already feature that instrument."

Via eyeteeth, a Minnesota Republican running for the state house has appropriated the Pabst Blue Ribbon logo for his campaign signs. Does this mean my favorite cheap beer is totally over?

While TV news crews think they may be off the air, some feeds are still available live online. During yesterday's coverage of a plane crash in Manhattan, a local reporter told the internets a camera was "a hunk of junk."

"Fox is doing zero marketing for the movie — no trailers, posters, television spots or even press kits for media outlets." Conspiracy theories are flying around Austin about Mike Judge's latest picture.

Oh my, here's a 1982 music video starring Joseph Beuys. He's singing a song protesting US President Ronald Reagan's defense policy, and it's as unkrautrocklich as imaginable.

Wow, there's a real "Wee Britain" in Shanghai! Who knew "Arrested Development" would be so prescient?

These evaporative cooling devices for cyclists don't look particularly cool.

"This small, sixteen-page pamphlet is produced to put inside the postage-paid, business-reply envelopes that come with junk mail offers. Every envelope collected is stuffed with the pamphlet and mailed back to its original company."

Citing a database snafu, a Web 2.0 startup takes itselff off line.

John Darnielle of The Mountain Goats' take on the new Dr. Octagon album. I've been listening to the old one a lot lately, and I had no idea a new one was coming out!

Project that creates machine-readable icons for tagging objects in the physical world. Somehow, if you upload a picture with one of these tags the metadata become associated wtih the image. I'm not sure how this works or if it's there yet, but certainly a

Let's just hope they don't develop a similar system for humans.

OMG, this cheese that contains live maggots and their feces is a delicacy in Sardinia. "When disturbed, the larvae can jump for distances up to 15 cm (6 inches), prompting recommendations of eye protection for those eating the cheese."

List of strange potato chip flavors. Who knew there were "Smoked Salmon, Horseradish and Capers" chips? I thought salt and vinegar was a strange variety when I lived in Philthy...

Yeah, that 17lb bunny is furreal? I wonder why they breed bunnies that big. Do they eat them?

HTML entities for a mindblowing array of iconic symbols. I like the the radiation symbol.