Apparently, “noodling” is a kind of fishing where you dive underwater, grab hold of a catfish with your hands, and then pull it to the surface. Noodling has been illegal in Missouri since 1919, but for a limited time this summer the Missouri Conservation Commission is allowing it in three rivers. From the guy in the picture:

I’ve had them clamp down so tight on my arm that I didn’t know if they’d ever let go. They have rows of tiny teeth, and when you try to pull your arm out of their mouth, they’ll just skin you. I even had one fish that tore my tennis shoe right off my foot. I couldn’t walk for a couple days. But that’s all part of it.

Why isn’t this universally popular?

A slideshow of Chinese watermelon art.

This guy made a parody of the Star Wars: Episode 3 trailer by adding subtitles of leetspeak… similar to the Jive-to-English translation in Airplane. But then Lucas’s laywers sent him an angry “cease and desist” takedown notice. This guy gets the last laugh, though, by posting the notice and a leetspeak translation of it. An excerpt:

n00bz:

Clan Luc@ss and krew (aka. “Griefers”) are so ubAr 133t that we even made Star Warz, The Empire Respawns, and The Jedi Go PvP. We also made some crap about some fag named Jar-Jar, but that was totally teh SUXXOR!!!1!!11! (oops. our bad) But we still totally pwn those flix. Those movies are mega ph4t lewt and we even found some sploitz that let us re-release them and make MAD BANK!
Even tho the 133t trailR was TOTALLY THE WINxorz, we f’in PWNt you! You are a dam dirty pirate-haxor-n00b and you can’t join our clan. You duped our items and somehow (must be h4x) stacked buffs on them. You best do what we say or we’ll petition the GMs and they will B4N your account! Oh noes!

Only the finest in tooth-modding. The jewels in the top set spin to emulate spinning hubcaps. There is now a second meaning to “pimp my mouth”.

This site is having a contest on who can Photoshop modern technology into antique contexts. Some of the entries are clever… some not so much.

Found in the Atlanta airport. I wonder if it accepts quarters.

These are unreal. Photos here (page 1) and here (page 2).

This Java applet is a visualizer for the history of music sampling. A timeline with colored dots represents some of the most widely circulated tracks; click to see all the tracks they spawned, click the tracks they spawned to see what other tracks they sampled. Nice.