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Air America Radio launches Wednesday, new progressive talk radio [via brushstroke].

for ages I’ve wondered about those images that some sites use to replace the browser icon on the address bar. i just found out that they’re called favicons and here’s how to create your own [via IDblog].

you know that a lot of original microfiche is an environmental hazard, right? well here’s something you can do with all that extra fiche you’ve got lying around [via Tangognat].

How Blogs Work in 7 Easy Pieces [via carving code].

Stiff: the Curious Lives of Human Cadavers, Mary Roach
Published April 2003

This book is as morbidly interesting it sounds. Roach covers what she calls “notable achievements made while dead”, everything from cadavers used for practice face lifts, to victims of airplane crashes whose bodies tell the story of the crash, to crash-test-dummy cadavers and cadavers used for the study of human decay, all the while tapping into that base human curiosity that accounts for our inability to look away from a bad car accident.

A lot of the time the most interesting bits of the book are the bits about the people who work with cadavers: the guy who watches bodies decay in the sun, the woman who saws heads off for plactic surgeons to practice on, the guy who pieced together the the cause of the TWA flight 800 crash by examining the cadavers and coroner’s reports, and all the historical figures that play a part in the story. The one unfortunate thing about the book is that while Roach insists that she is never disrespectful of the people who once inhabited the cadavers she researches, there are times when her double entendres and misplaced humour made me cringe, not so much for her poor taste as for her poor judgement.

every once in a while i stumble upon book-a-minute and get a kick out of it all over again.

looking for a good recipe for moussaka or pappadam? try international recipes online.

some beautiful photographs of the March 20 anti-Iraq-war protest in Trafalgar Square, London.

I’ve seen this film before, once back in 1992 when it was first out, but I wouldn’t have known that to see it again. Either I forgot about all the gratuitous sexuality, or I’m thinking of the book (read more recently), because it seems to me that there weren’t all that many doomed female medusa-types in my last contact with the story. It has its moments, Gary Oldman makes any role perfectly legitimate and Keanu Reeves plays a clueless buffoon very convincingly, but there was altogether too many perverse and demonic women and writhing female bodies.

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