] You're an Ashcroft! No, you're the Ashcroft!
]
] Imagine hearing that exchange in a movie - you'd
] think that Hollywood had come up with a crazy new insult.
] Well, it turns out that some airline passengers watching
] the Oscar-nominated film "Sideways" on foreign flights
] are, in fact, hearing "Ashcroft" as a substitute for a
] certain seven-letter epithet commonly used to denote a
] human orifice.

Ashcroft's name substitutes for obscenity in movie

] Action Comics, No. 1

The first Superman comic book, from June, 1938.
(Warning: the story's incomplete -- anybody got issue #2?)
I saw it on Boing Boing (http://boingboing.net).

ACTION COMICS NO. 1

] I believe I have created the most extravagant
] personal ad in the history of civilization.

This is a strange site, created by a strange person. (Local to Washington, DC, USA, in case you're worried by what you find. If you're local to Washington, you may still be worried. ;-)

DateJesus -- Jesus seeks loving woman

] I travel a lot and one of my favorite destination lead
] through poisoned with radiation, so called Chernobyl
] "dead zone" It is 130kms from my home. Why favourite?
] because one can ride there for hours and not meet any
] single car and not to see any single soul. People left
] and nature is blooming, there are beautiful places,
] woods, lakes. There is no newly built roads, but those
] which left from 80th in fairly good condition

This is absolutely stunning, spellbinding.

Photoblogging Chernobyl

Escher drawings made 3-D physical in LEGO blocks. AMAZING!

Escher's 'Ascending and Descending' in LEGO

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