Congratulation! You have a fruit! A fruit is not ready currently. You must prepare a fruit. The color of a fruit is green. The color of a fruit to taste great and put inside your body is red.

[YES! A link to SomethingAwful "dot com." BUT.]
posted by Countess Elena at 3:59 PM Jul 5 2008 - 60 comments [35 favorites]

Wordchamp lets you view foreign-language web pages with definitions in your language as mouseovers (registration-only).
posted by goodnewsfortheinsane at 6:42 PM Jul 5 2008 - 9 comments [16 favorites]

MeFite scrumtralescent thought it would be fun to interview people who dared to take a chance and do something cool or exciting, like leaving their jobs to travel for a year, picking up an unusual hobby or starting their own business, and then share these interviews via a website for all to enjoy. So she did, and the result was 'The Life Less Traveled: How Ordinary People Do Extraordinary Things…And How You Can, Too!' [via mefi projects]
posted by Effigy2000 at 6:05 PM Jul 5 2008 - 8 comments [15 favorites]

In the latter years of the second world war, the economist RA Radford was a prisoner of war. After the war ended, he wrote this now well known (if you're an economist) article on the economic structures that emerged in the POW camps. (JSTOR link)
posted by pharm at 7:37 AM Jul 6 2008 - 15 comments [14 favorites]

Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark Also, 2 and 3. NSFW due to a tasteless header image. You'll have to arrange by date and ascending to view them in proper order.
posted by puke & cry at 5:51 PM Jul 5 2008 - 25 comments [13 favorites]

According to the photographer's daughter, "All photos in this collection were taken by then Lt. and later Capt. George S. White, my Father, while he was serving in the Pacific as a pilot. They are generally between 1945 and 1948 from what is documented." My favorites? The barmaid or postwar Tokyo or wrecked planes and airplane graveyards.
posted by zzazazz at 2:05 PM Jul 5 2008 - 9 comments [13 favorites]

Simply Noise. Streaming white noise for your auditory zen needs. That is all. That is enough.
posted by wendell at 12:16 PM Jul 5 2008 - 34 comments [19 favorites]

Gabriel’s Revelation: “This should shake our basic view of Christianity... His mission is that he has to be put to death by the Romans to suffer so his blood will be the sign for redemption to come... This is the conscious view of Jesus himself. This gives the Last Supper an absolutely different meaning.”
posted by orthogonality at 6:27 PM Jul 5 2008 - 94 comments [8 favorites]

Those familiar with the plaintive falsetto of Delta blues great Skip James will surely hear Skip's influence in the much lesser-known Johnny Temple's Evil Devil Blues, recorded in 1935, which features some delightfully unexpected melodic twists. And though Johnny Temple "never achieved stardom", he does have a Wikipedia page.
posted by flapjax at midnite at 10:29 PM Jul 5 2008 - 9 comments [7 favorites]

50 Bands, 50 States: The Boston Phoenix declares the best all-time band, best all-time solo artist, and best new band from each state.
posted by lunit at 5:10 PM Jul 5 2008 - 79 comments [7 favorites]

The Book of Accidents: Designed for Young Children (1831). "In presenting to his little readers The Book of Accidents, the Author conceives he cannot render a more important service to the rising generation and to parents, than by furnishing them with an account of the accidents to which Children, from their inexperience or carelessness, are liable. If generally studied it will save the lives of thousands, and relieve many families from the long and unavailing misery attendant on such occurrences." [Via]
posted by homunculus at 6:37 PM Jul 3 2008 - 34 comments [62 favorites]

The Goon Bible Project Presents: The Book of Job (YouTube)
posted by Space Coyote at 4:16 AM Nov 4 2006 - 37 comments [16 favorites]

Biofuels have forced global food prices up by 75% - far more than previously estimated - according to a confidential World Bank report obtained by the Guardian.
posted by Kirth Gerson at 6:48 AM Jul 5 2008 - 63 comments [9 favorites]

Living on the Edge Welcome to Ronda, a beautiful city in southern Spain which is split in two by el Tajo gorge. As a result, certain buildings have been perched on the edge of the gorge’s vertical walls, enormous cliffs bridged by the 200 year old Peunte Neuvo.
posted by bwg at 5:21 PM Jul 5 2008 - 10 comments [4 favorites]

Remember John Burstein? Since 1975, he has been educating children (including many of us!) about the human body and the importance of health and nutrition in a rather unique way. Like many superheroes before him, he dons a form-fitting suit and transforms into a shocking alter ego... the living anatomical reference, Slim Goodbody!
posted by Mael Oui at 1:48 AM Jul 6 2008 - 23 comments [4 favorites]

While the Darwin awards look away ... cluster ballooning is taking off. More and more people are taking to the sky with a cluster of helium balloons and a lawn chair.
posted by Susurration at 9:40 PM Jul 5 2008 - 15 comments [4 favorites]

The Paintings of Fred Einaudi. [Via everlasting blort]
posted by homunculus at 8:10 PM Jul 5 2008 - 14 comments [4 favorites]

On Day Care, Google Makes a Rare Fumble You’re probably guessing that because it involves “do no evil” Google, Fortune magazine’s “Best Company to Work For” the past two years, this is a heart-warming tale of a good company reversing a dumb decision. If only.
posted by ThePinkSuperhero at 9:49 AM Jul 5 2008 - 133 comments [9 favorites]

Mapping the Structural Core of Human Cerebral Cortex. A new study of the connections in the brain has identified the brain's central hub.
posted by homunculus at 7:50 PM Jul 4 2008 - 13 comments [10 favorites]

J.R. Williams is a prolific comics artist with a distinctive visual style 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6. He is fond of fanciful takes on pop culture icons like Quisp and Yogi Bear, as well as more ribald characterizations like Polly Purebred and Jane Jetson (NSFW) More recently he has branched out into abstraction, which might be characterized as psychedelic pictographs.
posted by Tube at 1:45 PM Jul 5 2008 - 3 comments [3 favorites]