The monkeytail beard: the hipness of the goatee in 1993 without any of the social acceptance.

Visit Abbey Road and watch tourists reenact the ever-so-famous album cover with great schadenfreude (if that's your thing).

If I told you Keyboard Cat had a band and they're pretty good, what would you say? "HOLY F***!" more inside

Curious, George: Old blog of superhero battle back-&-forth. I recall a wonderful blog in which two cartoon artists went back-and-forth conquering the previous day's superhero. For example maybe one day "Spike Hand Man" would beat the previous day's "Waterbed Man," and then the next day "Marshmellow Body Man" would beat "Spike Hand Man," and so forth. My Google-fu has failed me!

There's new courseware up at Open Yale Courses There's lots of open courseware out there, but Yale's is the most complete. Just today (or maybe yesterday), nine new courses were posted. more inside

An infinite number of monkeys with typewriters (Monkius typeriterus) . That is all.

What to do when your pilot gets sucked out the window . The Story of BA 5390 mostly repeat, but with additional photos Old newsfilter, but still interesting if you missed the first go-round

Les Bubb's Mutant Mime Act, with dashes of prop comedy, illusions, lip syncing and influences from Bill Irwin to Rowan Atkinson's Mr. Bean to Howie ("no, not the rubber glove!!") Mandel. Some repetition among the 4 clips but still a lot of fun. (recommended by Evanier)