Tracy: You know how pissed off I was when Us Weekly said I was on crack? That's racist! I'm not on crack. I'm straight-up mentally ill! - 30 Rock

Big Lebowski Urban Achiever 8-Inch Figures Series 2 Set. Danish kit roadster. Via NOTCOT.

China renames menu items for Olympics: Bean curd made by a pock-marked woman (mapo tofu - yes, that's a literal translation), husband and wife's lung slice, chicken without sexual life. Sea urchin bukkake. Via Kottke.

Scientists confirm that parts of earliest genetic material may have come from the stars. Stranger Things - “Stranger Things is the first dramatic science-fiction anthology series shot in high definition and digitally-syndicated through the Internet, predating even the larger-budgeted Sanctuary.” Via Warren Ellis.

Sarah: I may have to aim my gun at you, just don't freak out. - Chuck

Mario Cake

8th Annual Testicle Festival. Via Serious Eats.

Zombie caterpillars controlled by voodoo wasps. Via Warren Ellis

Giant vulva bicycle taxi. Via Metafilter.


more cat pictures

Chinese man sticks 2008 needles in his head to mark Beijing Olympic Games - Via BoingBoing.

Via Cute Overload.

Spike: This is real mystic and all but, uh, do you have anything to eat here? - Cowboy Bebop

Chinese street food. Via BoingBoing.

The catbib.. Catbib video. Via Metafilter.

ALF: The only good cat is a stir-fried cat.

In Videos: Drew Carey in 'Food Fight: Battle of the Bacon Dogs'.

Echo Park Time Travel Mart. Via NOTCOT.

Rate My Coworkers. No employees added for Oracle yet.

Growing a wasabi plant. Via Global Voices.

David Lynch on watching stuff on iPhones. Via Fimoculous.

Illustrations of Chinese torture. Do monkeys have a theory of mind? Via BoingBoing.

Tracy: You know how pissed off I was when Us Weekly said that I was on crack? That's racist! I'm not on crack - I'm straight-up mentally ill!

Self-portraiture and emerging artistic consciousness in Dafen. There's a village in China where they make really good reproductions of famous paintings. Here, the workers have been asked to do self-portraits and the results are fascinating. Via BoingBoing.

Some dumbasses send a guy from mainland China to teach Chinese to kids in South Central LA. *sigh* Whose genius idea was this? Via 8Asians

Inside Story of Galactica's Crazy Closers.