Crate Men Attack Australia (link roundup)

Go to Australia and you just might see a crate man scaling a building. This site documents sightings. Via these fine sites.

And a few more links:

1. Hopefully it's just gamesmanship, but the Philadelphia Public Library system has announced that all libraries will be closed beginning October 2 due to budget problems. Via.

2. A former ESPN employee says Fred Smoot is a tremendous trash-talker who seemingly had done extensive research on opposing receivers' private lives for material, Nick Saban was stunningly vulgar, and that a former ESPN employee who killed himself was "almost universally loathed."

3. Iwo Jima Memorial, if it was sponsored by Disney. Via.

*Previously: Library's parking garage looks like giant books.

*BUy The Librarian from the Black Lagoon at Amazon.

Lego Hellboy (link roundup)

More photos of the Lego Hellboy here. Via.

And a few more links:

1. There's a bunch of Mass Effect 2 desktop wallpapers here.

2. File this under too good to verify since it's lacking in details such as proper names, but supposedly a nurse in Wisconsin was called out of surgery to be told she had been laid off. Via.

3. A Santa Monica library (that's a beachside community in Los Angeles) currently allows the public to borrow people. Honest. Choices include "a Mormon, an animal rights activist, a police detective, a fat activist, a feminist, a married Jewish lesbian mom, a little person and an ex-gang member," and more.

4. This is one of the saddest things I've ever read. (Warning, mature adult themes.)

*Previously: Custom Hellboy toys.

*Find Hellboy toys at eBay.