Manhole covers are flying in the air in Atlantic City. "Fire Chief Dennis Brooks said he was giving an interview... when another of the 200-pound manhole covers on a sidewalk near him shot 10 feet in the air trailed by a yellowish-orange arc of electricity." I didn't know manhole covers weigh 200# ?? It seems in the movies people always move them aside with one hand...
Some people feel I post too many Jon Stewart monologues. So for his take on the Ground Zero "mosque" I'll just offer this Gawker link, where it's embedded.
If you've missed any of the "Simon's Cat" cartoon videos, they are all assembled at Simon Tolfield's website.
On Labor Day, one poster at Reddit asked "How bad are American labor practices?" and offered an analysis. The discussion thread contains additional indictments.
A brief video of the Huashan plank walk.
A professional photographer's gallery of photographs of the striking karst topography of Madagascar's "Stone Forest" and the beautiful lemurs that live there.
Some people totally don't trust RFID tags. NPR interviews a man who can remotely read the tags in your wallet. "...information on an RFID tag can be useful; the numbers that can be deciphered give away the state where the tag was issued, what type of card (credit card, social security, phone, etc.) it is. He claims that it is a start to build a database on a person."
This has to be one of the most remarkable hospital nightmare scenarios I've ever encountered. "A man who was hurt in a car crash but was misidentified as a cancer patient claims security guards at Prince George's Hospital beat him up when he tried to leave the hospital to avoid chest surgery he didn't need - "to have a potentially cancerous mass removed from his chest." They apparently assaulted him because he wouldn't give them back the incorrect wristband.
Boston.com's The Big Picture has several dozen photos of the Russian wildfires and an even more tragic set of the landslides in China.
The Telegraph has photos of the twelve most common butterflies in the U.K.
If you rent a car from Hertz (and maybe from their competitors), don't sign up for the PlatePass service, which apparently is a total ripoff.
A baby Cyclops turtle has been found in Taiwan (videos at the link).
ABC News reports that an FBI investigation reveals that a North Carolina crime lab has been falsely reporting results for years.
Glenn Beck compared to Martin Luther King, side-by-side.
The BBC explains how Charles Darwin, Kew Gardens, and members of the Royal Navy essentially "terraformed" Ascension Island.
Electronic Village has a compilation of 102 Taser-related deaths.
Perhaps as many as 20,000 women a year are murdered to preserve their family's "honor."
The nation of Belgium may be broken into two parts: the Dutch Flanders and the French Wallonia.
When someone tells you "There is no 'I' in 'team," you should reply, "It depends on the font."
This week's smorgasbord has included an unusually gloomy set of links. To finish on a lighter note, here is a "Midichlorian Rhapsody," combining the prequels to Star Wars with the music of Bohemian Rhapsody.
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