books, names, and mj

this book gives you book recommendations and it is sweet:
http://bookseer.com/

how some terrible things got their names (lynching, shrapnel, etc.):
http://www.mentalfloss.com/blogs/archives/9773

mj's sweet dance moves have precursors. origins of the moonwalk:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fxZcLWAmdco

mj likes the way he looks and wouldn't change anything:
http://www.boingboing.net/2009/06/26/michael-jackson-like.html

ummm, bones made of rubber?

this flexible woman's dancing is so creepy that it reminds me of voldo from soul calibur:
http://vids.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=vids.individual&videoid=3032665

other places

friend amy and her compadres speak of life in africa here. maybe my favorite blog right now:
http://ifpsenegal.blogspot.com/

a flickr photostream of the protests in iran:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/arasmus/

randoms

good nytimes article about giving teachers six digit salaries:
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/06/05/education/05charter.html?_r=1&hp

cool beds:
http://www.oddee.com/item_96623.aspx

what the 1930s thought about the future of fashion:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=txaR2HvnwVg&eurl=http%3A%2F%2Flj%2Dtoys%2Ecom%2F%3Fjournalid%3D4919638%26moduleid%3D423%26preview%3D%26auth%5Ftoken%3Dsessionless%3A1244224800%3Aembedcontent%3A4919638%2526423%2526%3A2927&feature=player_embedded

art, sex, and killer fashion

an artist i like:
http://www.amycaseypainting.com/2008.html

how smell (maybe) affects human sexuality:
http://www.mentalfloss.com/blogs/archives/14306

(literally) killer fashions:
http://www.cracked.com/article_16997_6-popular-fashion-trends-that-killed-people.html

m-up-ash

a mary poppins mash-up. very enjoyable:
http://chicagoist.com/2009/06/08/monday_afternoon_diversion_the_trip.php

misc.

a database that tells you all the dangerous toxins that are in your various cosmetic products (including facewash and barsoap). not for the anxious:
http://www.cosmeticsdatabase.com/

things you can use milk for (other than drinking):
http://lifehackery.com/2008/11/24/home-16/

historical figures who were difficult to assassinate:
http://www.cracked.com/article_16822_7-historical-figures-who-were-absurdly-hard-kill.html

intense historical photos:
http://www.vanityfair.com/culture/features/2008/11/25best_slideshow200811

nicaragua

i read this book about nicaragua called the country under my skin, and it prompted me to look up this interview w the author (in some ways, better than the book):
http://www.arlindo-correia.com/020303.html

and this historical figure, mentioned only in passing in the book. she led other female troops to take control of the first city liberated from the somoza regime in nicaragua in 1979:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dora_Maria_Tellez