The Frank W. Tober Collection on Literary Forgery covers many classic forgeries - the works of Ossian, Chatterton's Rowley poems, William Henry Ireland's bogus Shakespeare, as well as others I had never heard of. In the latter category is Psalmanazar the 'Native of Formosa', who even ran up his own Formosan alphabet.

This is What US-UK Hegemony Looks Like. A gruesome gallery -- not for kids or weak stomachs. And in the interest of fairness, this is the other side -- Marines handing out toy cars and food aid.

Wankr Surfing the Web 2.0 bubble.

Movie Mythology: Predator, a Shaman's View from indiayogi.com.

Whatever Happened to Polio? Online version of the Smithsonian NMAH exhibit. more inside