Ali, you're exactly right. I should have warned that the hoodie was lame-looking.

Perdido Street Station was the first book I read by him, and I found the first 200 pages or so painfully slow. In fact, I put it aside for a month or two. Eventually (and thankfully) I went back to it. It really picks up. The Scar is fantastic and the third book in the series was also very good (although a bit too blatantly communist for my taste).

If that physique is a big deal in Russia, small wonder we won the cold war. (I say this with all due respect Mr. Putin.)

"The Ass of Damocles" by Sid Morrison is genius.

Just recently came across step by step instructions for making your own:

http://knuttz.net/hosted_pages/Vinyl-Clock-20070621

BoingBoing got a "G." Rating system's useless.

I just recently posted about another cool image of the northern lights - - the link is here(the one titled auroraborealis):

http://tivac.com/images/backgrounds/

Please Xeni, no more Goatse!

Oh god, that's going to end up on Neatorama for sure.

You can see Vader playing a guitar and a violin here:

http://superpunch.blogspot.com/2007/05/3-images-darth-vader-playing-violin-and.html

Just the other day I posted a photo of an "armored carp," and entry in the "Great Arcata to Ferndale World Championship Kinetic Sculpture Race."

http://superpunch.blogspot.com/2007/05/armored-carp.html