saw this on metafilter.

http://www.ashmol.ox.ac.uk/gri/4tut.html

all kinds of documentation on what was found when king tutankhamuns tomb was opened. some pics as well as scans of howard carters notes. theres a list of stuff that will be online eventually, including maps and sketches. fascinating stuff.

oh and dont forget this.

~james

The Gaping Maw's Big Book of Sign Language

Riotously funny for the unoffendable. Mildly funny for the offendable.

"I work at Wal Mart"! Ha!

Everybody needs....
 

Something Positive

make sure that you read the very first one, really disturbing, but really funny.

^
 

Not bad, even if it may be the WORDIEST FREAKIN' COMIC STRIP I've seen in the last fifty years or so.

True Porn Clerk Stories -- a web journal.

The next Mahir/All Your Base may have arrived
 

This thread on an English football club's fan board started out as a simple rant by a scorned ex-girlfriend. Thanks to the global nature of the Internet, it didn't remain that way for long.

Accusations are flying about promiscuity, adultery, strains of hepatitis, goat-shagging, homosexuality, and the worst sin of all -- being a Luton fan.

Check it out here.

For those of us fortunate enough to live on/near a wired area:
Warchalking

<a href=http://www.peppers.com>Peppers</a> - online presence of the best damn hot-pepper shop I know of (home base: Rehoboth Beach, Delaware).

Hot sauces, salsas, jerk marinades, BBQ sauces, thai, curry, chutney, chili mixes, chile-marinaded vegetables, and other edibles designed to fry your taste buds beyond recognition (and a bunch more designed for mere mortals to consume).

Geordi LaForge plops his ass down in our time
 

I was reading Wired and saw this abso-freaking-lutely amazing article about restoring vision to the blind. Holy Advanced Prostheses Batman!

A staple in every paperless office ...
 

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<table border="0" cellpadding="5" cellspacing="0" style="background-color: #fff; font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica; font-size: 10px"><tr><td colspan="2">You are <b><span style="color: #090">55%</span></b> geek</td></tr><tr><td valign="top"><img src="http://www.thudfactor.com/images/geekquiz/boy_50x75.jpg" height="170" width="120"></td><td valign="top">You are a geek. Good for you! Considering the endless complexity of the universe, as well as whatever discipline you happen to be most interested in, you'll never be bored as long as you have a good book store, a net connection, and thousands of dollars worth of expensive equipment. Assuming you're a technical geek, you'll be able to afford it, too. If you're not a technical geek, you're geek enough to mate with a technical geek and thereby get the needed dough. <B>Dating tip</b>: Don't date a geek of the same persuasion as you. You'll constantly try to out-geek the other.</td></tr></table> <p><a href="http://www.thudfactor.com/geekquiz.php">Take the Polygeek Quiz at Thudfactor.com</a></p>

<table border="0" cellpadding="5" cellspacing="0" style="background-color: #fff; font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica; font-size: 10px"><tr><td colspan="2">You are <b><span style="color: #090">50%</span></b> geek</td></tr><tr><td valign="top"><img src="http://www.thudfactor.com/images/geekquiz/boy_25x50.jpg" height="170" width="120"></td><td valign="top">You are a geek liaison, which means you go both ways. You can hang out with normal people or you can hang out with geeks which means you often have geeks as friends and/or have a job where you have to mediate between geeks and normal people. This is an important role and one of which you should be proud. In fact, you can make a good deal of money as a translator.
<blockquote>
<b>Normal:</b> Tell our geek we need him to work this weekend.<br /><br />
<b>You [to Geek]:</b> We need more than that, Scotty. You'll have to stay until you can squeeze more outta them engines!<br /><br />
<b>Geek [to You]:</b> I'm givin' her all she's got, Captain, but we need more dilithium crystals!<br /><br />
<b>You [to Normal]:</b> He wants to know if he gets overtime.<br /><br /></blockquote></tr></table> <p><a href="http://www.thudfactor.com/geekquiz.php">Take the Polygeek Quiz at Thudfactor.com</a></p>

<table border="0" cellpadding="5" cellspacing="0" style="background-color: #fff; font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica; font-size: 10px"><tr><td colspan="2">You are <b><span style="color: #090">22%</span></b> geek</td></tr><tr><td valign="top"><img src="http://www.thudfactor.com/images/geekquiz/boy_0x25.jpg" height="170" width="120"></td><td valign="top">OK, so maybe you ain't a geek. You do, at least, show a bit of interest in the world around you. Either that, or you have enough of a sense of humor to pick some of the sillier answers on the test. Regardless, you're probably a pretty nifty, well-rounded person who gets along fine with people and can chat with just about anyone without fear of looking stupid or foolish or overly concerned with minutiae. God, I hate you.</td></tr></table> <p></p>

Hm... I question the accuracy of this test..