A fantastic (and blessedly nonpartisan) photo essay on New Orleans before, during, and after Katrina from a resident. No posturing. No grandstanding. No politicizing. Just photos. [via mefi]
This is frickin' awesome! Dictionaraoke, the singing dictionary — this site features parodies of popular songs using karaoke-style backing music with vocals provided by audio pronunciation samples from online dictionaries. Examples: Queen's Bohemian Rhapsody or The Police's Every Breath You Take or Tori Amos' Me and a Gun (this last is sacrilige, I know). [via frykitty]
Apple releases iTunes 5 and replaces the iPod mini with the iPod nano
Ten reasons to eat local food [via kottke]
Miscellaneous Katrina stuff: Jon Stewart and The Daily Show on the inadequate response, The Onion: God outdoes terrorists yet again, Hurricane Katrina: our experiences (from members of an EMS convention stranded in the French Quarter). Also a Katrina timeline and another Katrina response timeline [the last is via schmuck, I hate to admit]
How to make a superhero movie that doesn't suck — I don't think the author goes far enough
The nerd, geek, or dork test — I am a "modern, cool nerd". I am 78% nerd, 52% geek, 43% dork. (Though according to the bottom of the results page, I am 82% nerdier, 71% geekier, and 74% dorkier than my peers.) [via kdlb]
The early days of the Muppet comic strip [via scrubbles]
Stacy catches the Harry Potter bug. Eight years late.
Gilligan has gone to the desert island in the sky
I've had conversations about this in the past: gender gap persists between lesbians and gay men [via scrubbles]
Whoa! This is very useful. The OneLook reverse dictionary is more than just that — I love the "related words" lookup feature. Very cool.
This Movable Type style generator is pretty keen
It's been a long time since I posted an animal intelligence link: clever whale uses fish to catch seagulls [via bragg]