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Waiter Rant is one of the best blogs on the net. The post he has today about overhearing two customers talking is gold.

I’m not a big Hitchens fan but he hits this one out of the park.

From Metafilter comes this blog called Awesome Tapes from Africa.

Someone in the comments also posted a similar site but with Brazilian music called Loronix.

Artist Zezao painting in the sewers of Sao Paolo (Flash slideshow)

(via Ektopia)

Someone in an Ottawa McDonalds kept his stash in a Happy Meal box. An ingenius place to hide your stash, unless you give it out to a kid….

Welcome to the Darwin Correspondence Project’s new web site. The main feature of the site is an Online Database with the complete, searchable, texts of around 5,000 letters written by and to Charles Darwin up to the year 1865. This includes all the surviving letters from the Beagle voyage – online for the first time – and all the letters from the years around the publication of Origin of species in 1859.

Dr. Strangelove scenes recreated with household items.

(via Boing Boing)

This ten minute clip is drawn from the famous 1950s game show, and it’s quite surreal. I don’t use the word surreal loosely: the special guest is Salvador Dali.

(via Asymmetrical Information)

Long clip (9 minutes) but some of those pitchers are incredible.