Unofficial Euro 2008 thread. Same rules as before -- spoiler-heavy thread, stay away if you have to save the drinking/misery for later. (For ease of reference, the Guardian's play-by-play ticker should be here.) Anyone willing to make a prediction?

R.I.P. Harvey Korman. What a guy. more inside

Miss Someone Funny.

[Your Name Here] for McCain! For a mere $250, get your own personalized John McCain banner! [Caution: "Demeaning or derogatory names or phrases are not acceptable."] Banners available in centrist Optima font only. more inside

muto a stop motion animation painted entirely on walls in the street (youtube)

Curious George: Age of Conan Hi there. Are Monkeys interested in playing Age of Conan? more inside

Caution: Clawed Frogs.

The wooden mirror. Daniel Rozen designed a wooden mirror from 830 small wooden panels controlled by a computer and connected to a small camera communicating with hundreds of tiny motors. To display dark parts the mirror uses dark brown sides of the panels and for light parts light sides of the panels are used

Curious George: Where Am I? Where are you traveling to? Where are you now on vacation? Or perhaps, where are you planning to be? more inside

rice boy a webcomic

Love Something Ugly.

Male fertility goes up with the consumption of alcohol. On the other hand, products I would have thought benign, like water-based paint might not be so great for the little homunculae... more inside

The Hole In The Wall (a short comic starring some cats)

Sidney Pollack, dead at 73. One of the greats.

Society of Robots is a website created by this wetware meatsack. It has tutorials on how to build robots. I suggest you begin.

You have ten minutes to find ten tiny animated gnomes in this point-n-click game. (Part 1, Rooftops). See also Part 2, Walk in the Park, Part 3, Early Spring Garden, Part 4,Foggy Flat, Part 5, The Shipyard.

The science of keyboard design. Does anyone else find it interesting to try out new keyboards simply because the keys click differently? via BoingBoing Gadgets

The holy grail of cheap and abundant energy - Cold Fusion (fusion of atomic nuclei at room temperature) has apparently been demonstrated again for the first time in decades, this time in a repeatable manner. Nuclear power available without its destructive side-effects? more inside

Print 'em and fold 'em: Superheroes galore!

Do Something Pretty. (auf Deutsch)