Our picks of the web and the occasional jawdropping bit of idiocy.

Our picks of the best reads on the net, plus the occasional bit of jawdropping idiocy.

Crikey’s picks of the web. Great reading and the occasional bit of outrageous rubbish.

The need for speed - and steam. A new challenger to a 102-year-old world land speed record has been unveiled – and it’s powered by steam. — New Scientist Out of the frying pan… Lucky, a 40-centimetre Southern Rock lobster, was left in a two-foot tank in an abandoned Chinese restaurant was rescued by the RSPCA and […]

Crikey’s picks of the web.

My day at reality TV school.

Spam experiment shows the unprotected will get spammed! Surfing the web unprotected will leave the average web user with 70 spam messages each day, according to an experiment by security firm McAfee. It invited 50 people from around the world, including five from the UK, to surf without spam filters. The experiment revealed that UK […]

An eclectic mix of interesting or irritating stories Crikey staffers found on their travels.

Chris Hurley’s story led to the Gulf of Carpentaria where, from 1998 to 2002, he’d been Officer-In-Charge of Burketown: I decided to go there, writes Chloe Hooper.

The ethics of ageing … It’s Ladybird, but know as you knew it.

Save the Cryptozoology Museum. Last year, Joel Johnson and BBtv visited the International Cryptozoology Museum in Maine, a multi-room cabinet of curiosities filled with artifacts, curiosities, and oddities related to “hidden animals,” mythical beasts, and creatures unknown to science. Now the taxman may be closing it down.  — Boing Boing Crisis Darfur. French philosopher Bernard-Henri Lévy on how […]

Crikey presents a collection of links good enough to forward: thoughtful commentary on everything from art and design to world politics to unadulterated gossip.

Will The American Mall really be the next High School Musical? Either MTV is much smarter than us, or they have completely lost touch with America’s youth. There’s also the chance those two possibilities are not mutually exclusive. But when MTV announced, in December, that they were teaming up with the producers of High School […]

Crikey presents a collection of links good enough to forward: thoughtful commentary on everything from art and design to world politics to unadulterated gossip.

Crikey presents a collection of links good enough to forward: thoughtful commentary on everything from art and design to world politics to unadulterated gossip.

Crikey presents a collection of links good enough to forward: thoughtful commentary on everything from art and design to world politics to unadulterated gossip.

Crikey presents a collection of links good enough to forward: thoughtful commentary on everything from art and design to world politics to unadulterated gossip.

Crikey presents a collection of links good enough to forward: thoughtful commentary on everything from art and design to world politics to unadulterated gossip.

Crikey presents a collection of links good enough to forward: thoughtful commentary on everything from art and design to world politics to unadulterated gossip.

Crikey presents a collection of links good enough to forward: thoughtful commentary on everything from art and design to world politics to unadulterated gossip.