Once again, Michele "She Who Debunks" Liguori corrects the apparent truth:
New Spiff-arino pas

Craig and his Mom meet Duke Nukem!

One-time bartender-anthropologist John Reilly tells me of:
Australopithecus spiff-arino

"Our mechanical dummy cows with built-in operator space are used regularly on nearly all bulls all over the world."

The Boston Globe's daily crossword. It looks better than the other one below. (You may need to go to the Globe's homepage first in order to get a cookie so the FBI can track you everywhere you go. You know those strips they put in twenty dollar bills? Well, they track you with them every time you go through an airport "metal detector" or those energy fields they place at the entrance of retail clothing stores...)

What kind of Charlie Girl are you?

Former Spice Girl Michele "Scary" Liguori sends me a survey:
Emma "Baby" Spice is my soul sister.

Engineers with too much time.

Get away.
Hide behind metal.
Turn it on.
Fear what you have created.

Excuse me? Penis Fencing?

A really cool weekly crossword puzzle. This week's is fairly easy. It took me 15 minutes. [Java]

Glassy-eyed surfer Michele Liguori notes:
"Yes, the glass flow UL has been around for ages, and has started some of the longest, most-unfortunate, lamest threads on AFU. [...] Some of the salient points are archived [here]." Sounds like good troll-bait to me.

Did the Mayans perish due to an environmental cataclysm?

A pretty good daily science digest page. The first thing you should do is click the link to the latest issue.