• "Hanging around all day looking like a chump with a great big billboard above your head has to be one of the worst ways to earn some money... This small photo study is dedicated to all those who have endured this horrible job."
• Cynical-C has a wonderfully wry obituary up for Ted Richings, a truly hilarious man: "- Ted Richings, 76, finally fulfilled his prophecy of having only three months to live... He was an environmentalist. He loved fly-fishing and the wilderness. He also enjoyed puzzles and left the following cryptogram for your amusement."
• Rubikubist by Invader over at VVORK.
• Everytime people try to tell me that there was more to the history of World War II than what was portrayed in Indiana Jones and Wolfenstein 3-D, I just laugh and laugh and laugh. Himmler searched Spain for the Holy Grail to help win World War II.
• Some beautiful photographs by Phillipe Chancel from North Korea. Note how eerily empty the streets are.
• A touchingly pathetic diary from a fundamentalist Christian teenager: "Jesus, please make my pimples go away! Lord when will I ever learn that you are the answer to all things? Oh Hum. Don't let my period come during a very embarressing moment. :) You know if You weren't here my life would end instantly. Perhaps never even started. Lord. I am very sad. I really don't know why." I went to summer camp with people like this. Also, camp counselors who would pray over piles of coats to find one that had gone missing.
• The seductive world of Street Fighter II Valentine's Day cards.
• A bizarre Christian child-bearing robot that recites the Old Testament. Best line from the patent: "IT WILL ALSO LIGHT UP AND BE EQUIPPED WITH AN ALARM WHEN THERE IS ANY TYPE OF, DANGER."
• Purple potatoes bread in the gamma storm of space are a big hit in China.
