Guess-the-Google
Another Google retrofit - here we guess the keyword search that generated the selection of images.

First off, go look at this optical illusion.

Cool, eh?

Anyhoo, while searching for museums of medical history I compiled this list of somewhat interesting sites:

Anatomia
Anatomical plates from the Thomas Fisher Rare Book Library

The Brain Museum
Images and information from one of the world's largest collection of well-preserved, sectioned and stained brains of mammals.

Ingenious.org.uk
Images exploring the Relationship of Science and Culture

The Museum of Questionable Medical Devices Online

Museum of the History of Science (Florence)

Museum of the History of Science (Oxford)

Museum of Hoaxes

Smithsonian Institution

Index of Medieval Medical Images

History of Ancient Medicine

National Library of Medicine
Some great exhibitions including Visual Culture and Public Health Posters. (This last via the Nonist, which is why I was looking in the first place.)

Panorama - The Mescalin Experiment
From the Hidden Archive of ... some of the corpses are amusing, here's the transcript of staid British MP Christopher Mayhew taking mescaline for a never broadcast Panorama documentary from the '50s.

The Prophecy of St Malachy

May give some insight into why the new Pope took the name of Benedict, bizarrely enough.

www.kokogiak.com

I think we mentioned this chap some time ago in reference to the megapenny project, but he has a lot of other even cooler stuff; e.g. the Seattle Waterfront Wipe and Mars Stereo Imagery.

Have we directed your attention to Tokyo Plastic and their innovative use of flash before? If not, how remiss of us. If so, feh.

Check out the Taiko Drummers - who seem to be more easily accessed here.

Interesting stuff:

The Wooster Collective - "A Celebration of Street Art"

Beneath My Feet - "An (Almost) Daily Catalogue of the Textures Beneath My Feet"

The Star Wars Holiday Special
A more in-depth site than the one we linked to at Christmas. "Enjoy".

Barista has a more substantial list of this year's April Fool's news-stories, and Foolish Internet supplies a handy retrospective.

Stick Work
Large sculpture installations woven from twigs and branches. Nice and eerie.

Yesterday was like an old Simpsons joke rewritten by Satanists.

"Is the Pope dead yet?"
"No"
"Is the Pope dead yet?"
"No"
"Is the Pope dead yet?"
"No"
"Is the Pope dead yet?"
"No - oh, wait... nnnnow he is."

Time to read up on the legacy (via Buck Hill). And pick a successor.

BoringBoring.org

April Fools' Day Weblog Parody (and don't I wish there really was a website called StudiousGirls) - there were others but you'd need to read blogs 24/7 to get the jokes.