World Wide Words: “English words and phrases—what they mean, where they came from, how they have evolved, and the ways in which people sometimes misuse them.”

This site would make Carrie Fisher regret ever introducing Leia’s Metal Bikini.

Can someone who speaks Japanese please translate this Quicktime movie? Even a brief summation would be great.

Get four in a row: Quirky Circuits.

Cosplay + a digital camera = Catcoon, a fotostory.

Tactics Arena Online is like Battle Chess with stats. You need a username/pass, but no email is needed and it’s painless.

It being Thanksgiving, I felt something Christmas related would be appropriate. Help Santa deliver the presents in this Defenderish game.

Doogie and Guy from Lunch Break have a new site that’s both timely and not safe for work: Michael Jackson – The (un)Official Press Room.

Browse this collection of Gas Masks from around the world.

If you just can’t wait for the repeats or box set, the complete Seinfeld Scripts may tide you over. Linked via Incoming Signals, who linked it from J-Walk.

Bless Snopes for bringing this to light: Master/Slave.

Claim: The County of Los Angeles has requested that equipment vendors avoid using the industry term “Master/Slave” in product descriptions and labelling.

Status: True.

What is the Magic Cone? “Magic cone is a funnel made of disposable cardboard .It has covered profile in upper opening to fit the female body and the lower opening large enough to prevent over flow of urine”. An animated walkthrough is available.

This guys iPod battery died, so he took the natural step of making a short protest movie. Of course. As someone at Sensible Erection pointed out, you can replace the battery, it’s just not the easiest thing in the world. I’d still take one for free.

Dr. Seuss’s Fox in Sox narrated by Marvin Miller. It’s maddening. I could easily see someone on drugs getting a little wigged out by this one.

Petticoat Pond just sounds like a place for transvestites.

Surrealism: paintings by Chirico, Dali, Magritte, Tanguy and Roy. Scroll down to enter and click the moving men to move forward in the galleries.

The top five Bum Wines reviewed.

Courtney Love “A Remembrance”. Yes, I know she’s not dead.

It’s about time a Trampoline game came along.

I like the bands Throbbing Gristle and Psychic TV and find Genesis P. Orridge interesting and amusing, but I was still thrown a little when I noticed that both he and his wife have the same breast implants. His site has one not safe for work pic (unless a man with breast implants is ok at your work, then go for it) as well as the latest news on the band(s) and other info.