The late, lamented Captain Kangaroo could have helped out science. Apparently, scientists are using ping-pong balls to simulate snow avalanches.

Hair pieces for cows. It's a big scandal at the Ohio State Fair.

At Confessions of an Idiosyncratic Mind, Sarah Weinman gives a great entry about why blogs are different than journalism and what keeps us reading. Here's one portion:
"Second, the best blogs know how to construct their content to keep reading. Just when you think they've put up a fantastic post--oh wait! Here's another one. Just when you think that earlier post couldn't get more thoughtful, provoking, or controversial, they are back with another one. Blogs know how to move quickly, efficiently, and keep the reader strung along."

FARK has the right idea:
Dear CBS, FCC and NFL: We really don't care that much about Janet's booble. Please get on with your "Has the Media Gone too Far" retrospective. Love, the public.
Also, props to TMFTML for the "IT WAS A NIPPLE. GET OVER IT." headline.
Can we please stop talking about this story now. Jackson showed her breast on national TV, no one is quite sure whether it was planned or not. (Although if it was planned, it was pretty fuckin' stupid.) We've all seen Janet's breast now, and sure, we're all pleased, but it's over. Get on with life.

Feeling jealous of the pope, President Bush gets his own Bushmobile decked out in red, white and blue.

China's dealing with the avian flu, but this is ridiculous. 10,000 small birds fall dead from the sky.

The feel good story of the year! Goldfish thrown 15 feet from car accident. Cops search area for 15 minutes. Miracously, the goldfish survives after being found amid broken glass. Oh yeah, the car owners are alright too.

Ceramics bought at government auction turn out to be human skulls.

Centuries old ruins found off the coast of Japan.

Dear God! I want to be a Michigan college student right now!
UPDATE: Man, I was a student in the wrong decade.

I'm under its command.

Dear doctors, using paperclips to close wounds is not the best idea.
Your Patients

Hitler had a Welsh girlfriend, who actually prevailed on him to save Jews (just the ones she worked with, but still.)

This guy argues for more use of the adverb. And yet, I saw very few adverbs in that column that improved sentences. I'm still cutting them out.
(By the way, every day I seem to steal more and more from Cylindrical Primate Storage Unit, so make sure you're checking that site out.)

Do you have Atomic Explosions Phobia? The Phobia Clinic offers a cure.

Super toilet blows up. It had to do with the high voltage cables underneath the toilet, say energy bosses.

Priest says image of Nuestra Señora de la Candelaria has been growing. There have been many supernatural stories about the statue over the years.

A new species of jellyfish has been found. The researchers called it "Bumpy." I like this quote: "'It's heartwarming to know that there's still a lot of mystery in the deep ocean. There are still a lot of big things moving around out there that we don't know about.' "
You can see pictures of the jellyfish here.

Go to this page and click on the art work. From there you can download a preview trailer of "Dragon Wars" or D-War as it's called in the trailer. If the movie is 1/2 as good as the trailer, it will be awesome. However, I have a sinking feeling that all the best stuff (and all the money for the movie) went into the trailer.
The movie will be directed by the guy who made the remake of Yongarry, called Reptilian in America. Here's an appropriate quote on the Rotten Tomatoes site about that film: "Passes the so-bad-it's-good threshold and lands square in the realm of bad again." Actually, that might make the movie sound better than it was.
Still, here's hoping this Korean film turns out to be as good as the trailer would lead you to believe.

Joseph Clifford Faust posts about plotting and how there are only so many plots in the world and it's your take on them that makes them something. I found it inspiring. Check it out. And while I'm at it, this Making Light post on rejections is quite good.
UPDATE: And now Neil Gaiman has written something about writing. It's a good day for writing advice.