this is a lovely vid using reverse motion and someone's fairly pretentious idea of movement in nature.
(via Metafilter)

After the jump because slightly NSFW...

I'm currently working on a longer blog that I'll post sometime in the next few days featuring these people and a few others. But in the meantime, I'm soliciting guesses in the comments section - what do the following people have in common and what is the story about?

One YBNBY T Shirt will be sent to the first person who correctly guesses the subject of the story. Not that I'm in any danger of having to stump up for a shirt, because I'm pretty certain no-one will get the connection.

A grad scientist student at Rutgers University has created a Flickr photoblog that shows in detail the removal of his cancerous brain tumor. Fascinating, if a little graphic (via BoingBoing)

I have all due respect for Richard Branson. Like James Dyson, he seems to be one of those rare things - a successful visionary. Someone with the ability not only to see the big picture, but also bring it to reality.

So it's rather disturbing to learn over on the Chilling Effects website that Branson and his organization are trying to lay claim to the intellectual copyright of the word “Virgin” in all its uses, in this case by suing a young businessman with a company called “Virgin Threads”.

I think I have the solution though - maybe all those companies could just substitute the word “unslutty”. “Unslutty Threads” has a good ring to it, and I suspect the domain name is free.

See also “Unslutty Olive Oil”, “Unslutty Sands”, “The Unslutty Suicides”, “West Unsluttia”, “The Unslutty Birth”, and of course “The Unslutty Mary”.

a website for people who like to put things on their kitties. as a cat owner, I can't even begin to describe the perverse pleasure that can only come from putting stuff on your cat. the more pissed off the cat becomes, his only defense to twitch and thwap his tail, the more fun the game is.