25 Handy Words That Simply Don’t Exist In English: love these sorts of lists. {via}

Drive a Tank: they absolutely need to franchise this. These prices seem quite reasonable.

Download Kindle Best Sellers for Free – Zero Dollar Books: a surprising selection.

I am Molly Ringwald. AMA: sure to be a crowd pleaser!

Even in the 1870s, humans were obsessed with ridiculous photos of cats: people are people.

Learning From 11 Years of Personal Publishing Analytics: I’m a sucker for charts and analysis. {via}

The Personal Analytics of My Life: that is some serious tracking going on there.

Hindenburg: the only thing I ever knew about it was its fiery demise. It was so much more.

Star Wars Uncut – Directors Cut: that is simply amazing. {via}

Ask Cool Tools: the blog is outstanding and this looks to be just as helpful.

cluedb: this is the Internet at its user-generated finest. {via}

A Never Before Seen Optical Trick Creates Ultra-Secure Cash: a watermark that can’t even be seen? Microscopic holes that only let certain wavelengths through? Yowza!

The Right (and Wrong) Way to Die When You Fall Into Lava: whoa, makes total sense when you think about it.

The Man Who Pressed His Luck … and Won: memorizing five patterns under the circumstances is still amazing.

Not an animated GIF: nice. If you want to prove to yourself that it’s not animated, look at it at a high angle. {via}

I see what you did there Pixar: that is so awesome! {via}

Chuck Lorre Productions – Vanity Cards: the full archive of all those messages that Chuck Lorre appends at the end of his shows.

10 Stubborn Food Myths That Just Won’t Die, Debunked by Science: excellent list, I held a few of them that I clearly need to research more.

Shit That Siri Says: this reminds me so much of the old Apple—the one that produced Clarus the Dogcow and had Easter eggs all over its software.

Ladies and Gentlemen, the best pet Halloween costume of all time: agree wholeheartedly. My dog, however, would be the fastest damn AT-AT you ever saw.

Ask Jon Skeet: for when you don’t care what anyone else has to say on StackOverflow.

Wine Cellar: I hate wine but I love trap doors.

Storage on the Ceiling – Kiss Garage Clutter Goodbye: this is an awesome idea.

Nerdy Day Trips: nothing in Arizona?! Well, I guess that’s probably true.

Gold Coins – The Mystery of the Double Eagle: utterly fascinating.

Steve Jobs’s Best Quotes: his impact on computing cannot be overstated. Also, watch his Stanford commencement speech for more inspiration.

Blisteringly sexy, she killed Nazis with her bare hands and had a 5 million-franc bounty on her head. As she dies at 98, the extraordinary story of the real Charlotte Gray: quite the headline. The film adaptation is available on Netflix streaming.

Should I Change My Password?: check your email address against recently-hacked databases.

Dear Photograph: these are so touching. I wish I had more childhood photos so I could make these juxtapositions.

AirDisaster.Com: whoa. Just whoa.

The Legion of Super-Groomsmen: and I thought our Toyota jump photo was cool. Damn!

Go the F**k to Sleep: a children’s book that captures the frustration of the parent.

Miniatur Wunderland Hamburg: awesomeness just got awesomer.

Incredible Star Wars Propaganda Posters: incredible sums it up.

How Google Works: it’s an amazing piece of work.

Dear news media:: perspective doesn’t sell papers or page views.

Maine Town Declares Food Sovereignty: awesome stand, but it’s premised on the notion that the federal government can be restrained. We’ll see how that pans out. (It also neglects the tremendous benefits of trade, but I can forgive them that in the service of acting as a check for liberty.)

Word Puzzle Universal Wrapping Paper: this is wrapping paper I would buy and use.

Facebook Makes Us Miserable: I only go their for work purposes.

Explore Thomas Cole: I’ve always loved his paintings. This is a great showcase of them.

Mapping America — Census Bureau 2005-9 American Community Survey: this is a fun little tool.

48 Things Frugality Has Taught Me: it’s linkbait but it’s good linkbait.

“Did ‘Star Wars’ become a toy story? Producer Gary Kurtz looks back”: “… essentially ended the trilogy with a teddy bear luau.” perfect summation of what went wrong with Return of the Jedi.

Sergey Larenkov: photos of World War II-era Moscow, Berlin, and Vienna masterfully Photoshopped into the present. {via}

A Passing Thought: sometimes you just have to stop and think about the world you inhabit.

14 Famous Man Caves: personal retreats from the recent past.

Speaker Wiki: dang, that’s some serious honoraria. {via}

My Phone is Off for You: an important sentiment. {via}

From Spy Plane to Monster Truck – a Photo Gallery of Awesome Cockpits: this is seriously neat.

The Ins-n-Outs of an In-N-Out Double-Double, Animal-Style: I knew there was a reason why I loved them. Also, you can get your french fries animal style as well.

50 Fantastically Clever Logos: many aren’t particularly clever but well-executed. The “Spartan Golf Club” logo blew my mind.

Eisenhower Interstate System Diagram Map Posters: beautiful work. Makes it seem like a cross-country trip is a short subway ride away. {via}

Motivational Posters from the Movies: all good ones.

How Do I Win Rock Paper Scissors Every Time?: I need to start playing some high-stakes Rochambeau.

Launchlist: in the vein of “turn off the stove” checklists.

Monopoly: how the board game saved many Allied prisoners’ lives.

Oxford Dictionaries FAQ: lots of fascinating answers here, like one indicating the origins of the dollar sign. (HINT: it didn’t come from the United States’ initials.) {via}

Handmade Dollhouse Miniatures and Collectible: these are adorable and handmade.

Metafilter Turns 11: and I’ve been a member for over 10 years myself.

West Baden Springs Hotel: wow, this is a magnificent hotel. I want to go just to see it in person. {via}

10 Innovative Subway Advertisements: my favorites are the funeral home one and the Durex one, though I think it’s wildly inappropriate for a public space.

LOST Encyclopedia: as much as the series finale disappointed me, I still really enjoy the mythology of everything that came before it. It’ll be published on August 24, 2010.

Balloons and Dyson Air Multiplier™ fans: simply stunning. As I said previously, it’s pricey but intriguing. {via}

The Truth About Cold Water: the take-away lesson for me? Avoid cold water.

Tierney Wins Peak Oil Bet: Julian Simon is sighing contentedly in his grave.

Augmented (hyper)Reality: Domestic Robocop: it’s jarring but I think I could come to appreciate such a reality.

Did Americans in 1776 have British accents?: interesting question and informative answer.

Pixar Star Wars: Pixar characters re-imagined as Star Wars characters. Just go look. {via}

The Geography of LOST: when I look at this, I just try to remember the show without the series finale.

That’s What BP Said: a nice variation keyed off the big oil spill.

Stargate Studios Virtual Backlot Reel 2009: it is astounding what they can do with green screens. There were a couple in there that I had previously thought were actually on location. {via}

Looking Into the Past: the “then and now” genre of photography is one of my favorites.

Shhh! Share the secrets of your trade/ Lifes little easter eggs: I love these “insider knowledge” type of threads.

The 4 Big Myths of Profile Pictures: a dating site analyzes the effectiveness of various profile picture archetypes. Very interesting results.

The Original ‘Wonka’ Kids All Grown Up: wow, it’s hard for me to even see them as being the same people. They’re just so … normal.

The End of Chiropractic: and I say good riddance.

The Muppets “Bohemian Rhapsody”: has Pepe, my favorite Muppet. This is just great stuff!

An Elegant Chaos: a searchable view into the Hadley Climate Research Unit leaked emails and documents. Here’s some of the highlights and here’s a lot of background.

TR35 Profile of Michelle Khine: I love integrations like this.

It’s the Most Wonderul Time of the Year: that is a truly exceptional Halloween costume. I just wish the pictures were full length so I could see the rest of the get-up. {via}

David and Nikki are Getting Married!: I like the trailer but I love the cake!

The 10 Biggest Misconceptions We Learn In School: I had no idea that Napoleon was normal height (lying Bill & Ted’s Excellent Adventure) or that the Vikings didn’t have horned helmets.

Solving for X: Bill Nye is back, this time his topic is math.

Ethical Dilemmas Involving Klondike Bars: funny concept.

High-Speed Robot Hand: the actual actions are pretty short but it’s still mesmerizing. {via}

Secret Life of Scientists: Web-only series from NOVA highlighting scientists. The first episode is about a leech expert.

12 Stunning Rooftop Gardens: pretty nice considering the inherent constraints. {via}

Unusual Remote: it looks like it’s Surface-based (so it’d be an awfully-expensive remote) but man that’s sweet!

Lost University: can’t wait to enroll!

“How Netflix gets your movies to your mailbox so fast”: I’d always wondered about this aspect of the Netflix operation. The secrecy is understandable.

What Has Been Seen Can Never Be Unseen: oh, that’ll come in handy in the future. {via}

15 Da Vinci War Machines: yeah, Leonardo was pretty badass.

Meet Phineas Gage: this is the only known photo of Phineas Gage; he seems so proud of the iron spike that went through his head. {via}

Virtual Apollo Guidance Computer: now open-source in case you wanted to re-live the 60s and had a Saturn V handy. {via}

Billy Dare, Boy Adventurer: I love these behind-the-scenes looks at the life of a henchman. Best one ever was from The Simpsons.

“1000 is the new 10″: so brilliant and obvious in hindsight.

Nazis in Color: color really brings out the evil. (One picture with Nazi boobies towards the end of a long sequence.)

Google PowerMeter: it’s coming and I’m excited to see what they’ve created.

Photo Clichés: blog showcasing a few of the trite tropes of photography. {via}

Where We Do What We Do: photos of people’s office spaces.