Swedish Idioms in painfully literal translation. If you relish the exotic or the enigmatic utterance, this is the link for you. more inside

Comics 101. Learn the sordid history of Captain Marvel, or maybe even Iron Man. Find out just what the heck the Crisis on Infinite Earths really was. And there's a great synopsis of V for Vendetta, too. A great read for any comics fan.

Britain's Finest Newspaper It's a very different approach to a medium which the Onion has made famous, and the Python-esque humor finds numerous homes in the myriad weird little details. I recommend the Personal Ads page in the most recent category.

The Real Truman Show - I was just looking at a cool calender that I was going to write about over at Proteinos when an interesting article caught my eye, The Real Truman Show. more inside

sparklines 'Intense, simple, word-sized graphics'. An application for weblogs here. (somewhat via waxy)

Here is one place you'll find 'em. Here is another. ryoshu mentioned some of 'em here. How about you? Do you know any Republicans who are going to vote against Bush?

How to Speak like a Cape Bretoner

Google browser I'm not sure how I feel about Google releasing a branded a version of Mozilla. more inside

Electrifying sex!!! 'nuff said? Maybe NSFW more inside

Wolves

Flickr groups The name says it all, really. Where are the monkeys? more inside

Ever have trouble understanding Dubya? With the help of a Public Domain Audio Archive some contestants have tried to take Bush's babbling and remix him into tracks that better describe his actions.

The risk of intestinal cancer can be significantly reduced by wearing orange socks. Welcome to Dave's Web of Lies, last updated December 19, 2009. [via the always-fun Bifurcated Rivets]

Stem Cells: Science, Ethics and Politics at the Crossroads

This article (NY Times link) has been cited in another discussion here (it's also been on that other site), but I believe it's important enough to merit an FPP. (My first!) Apparently a sizeable number of evangelicals believe Bush is an "instrument of God." And this allows them to completely overlook the lack of logic in many Bush administration policies, as well as Bush's frequent, uh, misstatements of fact. As one of the article's sources says in it, ". . . when it gets complex, he seems to turn to prayer or God rather than digging in and thinking things through." more inside

In your face ! For its next campaign against tobacco (small pdf), the European commission has decided to hit hard, and where it hurts. They are going to replace the warning messages you can find on the back of cigarette packs by shoking and graphic pictures (you've been warned). Will this campaign be more effective than softer approaches such as this one (.mov) ? more inside

Translation: Error! - forgive the 'self link' but this is worth a giggle. Screencap 1. Screencap 2. At time of posting, still up.

Porn or Art? Bearing in mind how thin some materials are these days, perhaps paint is just as modest a choice. (Probably NSFW)

Curious George: I keep getting this weird error message when I try to post to Monkeybashi's blog: "Your comment could not be submitted due to questionable content: free. Please correct the error in the form below, then press Post to post your comment." Huh? Suggestions/explanations?

2046 Everyone who goes to 2046 has the same intention. To recapture their lost memories. Because in 2046, nothing ever changes. Nobody can be sure that this is true. Because nobody who goes there…has ever come back. more inside