Links posted in February 2005
February 28, 2005
Order a MoFiTShirt now! If you want to be the hawtt sex0r this coming summer, or if you're in the southern hemisphere and need an extra layer and/or umbrella, now's the time to obtain a highly desirable MonkeyFilter tee. Go ahead, ask me how. [more inside]
Prevention of Alzheimer's Disease Pathology by Cannabinoids: Neuroprotection Mediated by Blockade of Microglial Activation ...is the title of a new paper that argues Marijuana can combat the effects of Alzheimer's. According to animal models, when cannabinoid receptors on diseased brain tissue become activated swelling is reduced and brain functioning apparently improves. Of course, the scientists involved don't recommend smoking up... they recommend waiting for a synthetic cannabinoid drug that will reduce inflamation but won't get you high, but personally I prefer organic herbs to synthetic chemicals. How's 'bout you?
Let go of that monkey meat Two new retroviruses found to have jumped from primates to humans, due to simian meat comsumption.
Extreme Spells No matter how minimal or how severe your situation is, Extreme Spells.com can help. Maybe you need a lover who has left to return? Perhaps you need someone who has wronged you to be paid pack? Perhaps you need a money spell to bring your financial life back into place? Maybe you would like to ruin your ex lover's new relationship and possibly get him or her back? Again, we can assist you as we have thousands of others like yourself who simply needed the "extreme" power of our ancient, powerful and effective spells.
One Word
Sixty Seconds.
Have at it.
The Red Calf Is Blessed. Apoccy Clips Around The Corner?
Sanity and reason go for a long walk, perhaps never to return
When the drugs start talking, it's time to stop taking them...
Messiah! If you're a premillennialist, you should watch the Messiahcam, for No One Knows the Hour; but if you are a confirmed postmillennialist, you'll be watching for a long, long time before the lightning cometh out of the east, and shineth even unto the west. (Amillennialists are all going to hell, but they're not interested in watching, anyway, so it'll all come as a big surprise. Or perhaps it won't.) [more inside]
Check for traps. True Dungeon returns to GenCon Indy this year. This d20 variant, created by Jeff Martin of Dwarven Forge fame, is part RPG, part LARP, giving fans of D&D a chance to act out real-life adventures in a full-sized dungeon without all the running around in the woods waving foam swords. Wil Wheaton did it, so it must be cool.
Computer Boy - iFilm link. Classic (I found it back in 2001), juvenile humor (the director was only 18 when he made it), Australian spoof of The Matrix. Approx. 50 minutes long. SFW, but contains profanity. And fart jokes. [more inside]
Dr. Richard Olney dedicated his career to the study of one of the most disturbing and still incurable fatal human illnesses, motor neuron disease. Now he is living with it. [more inside]
keeping dogs away whats the way to keep dogs off my 14 by 6 ft landscape,pepper?I dont want to hurt them,but they keep dropping the bomb.
Curious George: Oscars Did anyone else see some text appear on the screen during the animated feature intros? [more inside]
Dentist sounds. Just slip on the headphones, sit back and relax. [via E.C. Brown]
February 27, 2005
Mad Props from MeFi and the NZ Herald. In print but not online? Got a copy, tracicle?
My next car. Appropriately armed. Scroll down to see it in action. And I am really hoping that crazy mohawk boy comes with it. Is it not wonderful? It's even better than this old one which I have long coveted.
The Infinite Teen Slang Dictionary There are a near-infinite number of slang words which are still only in hypothetical usage among the youth of today and tomorrow - this service attempts to pre-emptively catalogue them.
Grin and bare 'em. In which we find that Britons and Americans smile differently. US viewers of the Simpsons may be very pleased to hear that, but apparently Science™ shows we Brits are more likely to be sincere whilst scaring infants with our wonky gnashers. Via ALD.
Stop trying to protect me from myself. There is a new treaty aimed at reducing smoking related deaths, which are listed as the number two highest preventable killer, just behind hypertension. [more inside]
Aggravated George: Biopython I need to install BioPython on my powerbook, OS 10.3.8 for use with MacPython. I've read the installation instructions but I'm still just getting use to macs and have no idea where to find directories etc. HELP! I'll send my famous banana walnut chocolate chip cookies to the first person whose advice leads to a successful installation!
Volvos meet the future With interesting models like this new T6 Roadster... [more inside]
Great Weekend Timewaster
The instructions are in Japanese, but the game is pretty simple. [direct link to Flash file]
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February 26, 2005
Salacious George What should a modest fellow as myself wear or do at a nasty party? [more inside]
New Yorker satire by Ian Frazier. Biting and funny take on Jerry Falwell's autobiography.
They've caught the BTK serial killer in Kansas. The BTK Strangler started killing people in Kansas in 1975. They caught him today. [more inside]
Curious George: Mac Audio I want to make .wavs of my Mac voices saying different things. How do I do this? [more inside]
Action: A renegade cop teams up with an alcoholic ex-CIA agent to commit the perfect crime. In the process they accidentally kill a nun. By the end of the movie they have sex with 342 bad guys and end up winning the admiration of their universe, living happily ever after.
Think Waterworld meets Pulp Fiction.
A Lawsuit
Has been filed against the president of the Gorilla Foundation alleging that she demanded the female workers to show their breasts to Koko.
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As the British army dismisses three soldiers for their part in the abuse scandal at Camp Breadbasket, the LRB looks back at an earlier shameful period in military history, the Kenya Emergency (or Mau Mau rebellion) of 1952.
"i couldn't think of anything. sorry."
Metaphysik: Ball Revamped II. Flash, via ABS. Addictive! [more inside]
Arthur Rackham's illustrations to Alice in Wonderland [more inside]
Hotel ........(flash) via Burp
Jaxckson Being sued by family of woman who died after being displaced by Jackson's admission to hospital for flu symptoms [more inside]
February 25, 2005
Real men are Brawny men
-- Brawny has a homo-erotic ad campaign that is as creepy as it is brilliant. I especially enjoyed the "Innocent Escapes" which are best described by friend:
“Don’t you feel like he is going to turn on you at any moment and kill you and keep your corpse in a shrine in the woods?”
I'm going to go buy some paper towels now.
Adware and Privacy together at last. An attorney and former Claria executive (you remeber Gator right?) is now on an executive pannel on privacy for the White House. [more inside]
Happy Monkey:
I haven't been here in a LOOONG while.
so I just wanted to say: HAPPY FRIDAY! ooooh oohh aaah ahhh.
k bye
X-ray Porn/Art (NSFW!) A sampling of Wim Delvoye's images. While explicit, I think that they're interesting both as erotica and as art. They also certainly give a better understanding of where the soft tissue ends in the skull, for those of you who have to do anatomy drawings out there. [more inside]
video from the LA meetup I thought that this deserved a front page post.
A Snig a day! "When single-celled organisms were first treading their way through the primordial soup, snigs were swimming laps in it." [more inside]
Musical Signs . windows media
gnomz ! now in English. Create your own mini-cartoon, share them with the world or send them by email. [more inside]
The Guard Dog One of five Oscar-nominated short films available to watch today on Salon (you know the drill...)
The Sarah Foster Sweater Collection for GI Joe and his friends
Jeff Gannon comes out swinging.
Mr. Gannon I have one question for you. Is this a "come-on?"
And geez, did this slimebucket have to steal Hunter S. Thompson's words? Sorry to stink up the joint, but this (and this) made my hair stand on end.
Don't Cook This Dog. The strange and really heavy land of missionary pots, sad irons, and flop griddles. Obscure and beautiful cast iron cookware.
Was the U.S. really founded as a "Christian nation"? Our nation was founded not on Christian principles but on Enlightenment ones. God only entered the picture as a very minor player, and Jesus Christ was conspicuously absent. . . . Though for public consumption the Founding Fathers identified themselves as Christians, they were, at least by today's standards, remarkably honest about their misgivings when it came to theological doctrine, and religion in general came very low on the list of their concerns and priorities--always excepting, that is, their determination to keep the new nation free from bondage to its rule.
London Meetup: Redux The Great God Marduk, God of Spring, Guardian of the Law, and slayer of Tiamat, has risen. [more inside]
Banana Bunker! A new and improved variant on the infamous Banana Gaurd. Because who needs a gaurd, when you can have a bunker? (Via Gizmodo) [more inside]
Curious George Do you get ill playing FPS games on Xbox? [more inside]
Curious George: GAMESWAP
Alright, we already have music swapping in place, but what about a little something for those of us who like-a da video games?
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Santacon
Because it's STILL snowing in NYC.
Missile Defence - thanks but no thanks Seems like Canadian Prime Minister Paul Martin's been flaunting some massive cojones lately. Now it's rumoured he'll have the audacity to change his mind on a hot-button campaign issue and tell Bush off on his missile defence plan that costs a lot, makes the global political climate worse, and just plain doesn't work. With any luck, anyway.
February 24, 2005
"I am writing this letter
(you may need to adjust your browser's text size) in protest of the perverse travesty I have suffered at the hands of Mr. Bradley in the form of the horribly unjust "F" grade he has given me for last semester in his complete fraud of a class, World History 101."
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Curious George: How to find a lost sister. I can't find my sister, who was last heard from in Mississippi (where, presumably, she lives) a month & a half ago. My dad and I are seriously considering putting out a missing persons report if we don't hear from her by Saturday. I'm trying to find her before that happens, but my google-fu is failing me, and since I only have a few names and no phone numbers, google's all I've got. [more inside]
"Lejo's simple but unique puppets consist of nothing more than his bare hands and a pair of wooden eyes."
For fans of The Muppets and Señor Wences.
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American Marine Killed in Iraq [more inside]
Edgar Governo, Historian of Things That Never Were A collection of links to hundreds of timelines for fictional worlds (TV shows, movies, books, and comics both popular and obscure). Very comprehensive.
Take a look at mulla chicks VSFW (very safe for work). Satisfaction guaranteed. [more inside]
The Saga of Lt. Ilario Pantano An American Soldier who has be charged with premeditated murder for an incident that happened more than a year ago. An incident in which he was cleared for by his battlefield commanders. Is this Justice? Or is the government using him to try and placate critics of the war?
The Secret Gospel of Mark? For all of your Indiana Jones/Umberto Eco conspiracy theory needs. [more inside]
Gifts for: a sick bastard, a vain bastard, a baby bastard, your bastard ex. Who says Design is Dead? [more inside]
Curious George: Office Politics for Dummies You get a new job, and make your first mistake in the office. It's difficult to assess if it was a major mistake or not, because instead of rationally discussing it with you, your new boss sends you a very nasty email, and copies 2 higher-ups on it. What do you do? [more inside]
Meet Python Pete
and his incredibly large constrictor. "He's another tool in our toolbox."
Completely SFW.
How much do the good people of Island Records despise their cash cows and themselves? [more inside]
Hunter S. Thompson's ashes to be shot out of a cannon
If the Thompson job were his, Williams said, he would probably blast the ashes from a 12-inch-diameter mortar 800 feet into the sky. Then a second, window-rattling blast would scatter them amid a blossom of color 600 feet across.
"If you were going to light up a flash-bomb worthy of Hunter S. Thompson, you'd want to make it an earth-shaker," Williams said.
Einstein@Home Einstein@home is a program that uses your computer's idle time to search for spinning neutron stars (also called pulsars) using data from the LIGO and GEO gravitational wave detectors. [more inside]
300 Love Letters I'm writing three hundred love letters and sending them to strangers. The letters are going to be glued to the outside of the envelopes, so that the mailman, and presumably whoever the recipient lives with, will be able to see and read them. The letters aren't to the strangers, they're to people I know. Everybody I wrote a letter to has his or her own color [1] [2] [3]
Common errors in English. Can never remember whether it's imply or infer? Love to be a nit-picking pedant? Then this is the site for you. Detailed explanations of common mistakes people make when dealing with the English Language.
Oldskool new school [more inside]
February 23, 2005
/lazy This cartoon sums it up best. Now you can order pizza while playing Everquest II. [more inside]
A Flash animation sketching the female body from the skeleton out. (Might be NSFW if you consider a few seconds of drawn female nudity to be so.)
Last moments
of Tsnuami victims caught by camera. A local (Vancouver, Canada) couple went missing during the tragedy and were later found dead. Recently, the memory card from their wrecked digital camera was found by a relief worker, from Seattle. The card contains pictures of the last moments before the tsnuami hit Thailand. If there is a sliver lining in this story, it's that their sons know they were together at the end.
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New iPods! you will get your credit card...you will spend your money...Steve Jobs is your lord and master...
The Financial Cost of the Iraq War Curious George - what does 200 BILLION dollars buy in a war? [more inside]
Fifty Word Fiction. Prose fiction's answer to haiku, perhaps. Stories told in fifty words. The ADHD version of nanowrimojoflobloho. Now, ladies and gentlemonkeys, get to work. Tell me a story. [more inside]
The Day After Tomorrow. Exactly how do John & Terry afford that $600K mortgage, SUV, big-screen TV, and pool on a modest salary? And how do they weather a hypothetical domino effect where the U.S., plagued by consumer credit and offshoring of jobs, soars into economic ruin? [more inside]
The forgettable and occasionally regrettable.
Ever wanted to know where the substitute republican elector from Maine in 1840 was buried? Of course you did!!!
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Calling creative minds!
Boss turns 40 tomorrow, and admin asked me to create a list of "appointments" that she could post to his electronic calendar. I need some creative ideas to add to my short list... note, boss has good sense of humor (not easily offended), but he *is* the fella who pays us.
Monkeys?
callalillie is collecting cast off cat whiskers
Sometimes, dear internet, you make a request that defies any real explanation. This is because we all contain an inner freak, and some of us are just larger vessels that others.
Note that she wants only whiskers that your cats are through with. No plucking!
Guesses? Art? Fetish? Vodoo to turn her into the Queen Of All Cats?
Walking with beauty
(Native American artifacts). Then, a look through "Beauty and the Beast" tales from this collection.
And another kind of "Beauty and the Beast", in the form of fractal art.
Go whale hunting. Inland. Do you have strange childhood memories of seeing a blue whale up close, but have never actually been to sea? [more inside]
Curious George: Mail theft Curious George: Any Monkey postal workers? Question about mail theft...
Was there a 13th amendment to the U.S. Constitution that was ratified but ignored? According to some right-wing conspiracy theorists, yes. This amendment, they say, makes it illegal for lawyers to serve in public office. More here and here. [more inside]
i want to take a magic marker to the sky and color it blue again.
February 22, 2005
Ape-related comic book covers Shamelessly kiped from MeFi for your amusement.
MonkeyGifts - March swap. Opt-in for March gift swapping has begun. If you'd like to sign up, now's the time! (You can also sign up for the community but not swap this month - monthly swaps are only opt-in as you feel like it.) Here's all the community info if you're interested in joining us.
Curious George: Time Travel If you could travel any"where" in time, to what time period would you travel, and why? [more inside]
Flashblock allows you to avoid irritating, flash content in Firefox and Mozilla. It prevents flash content from loading, replacing it with a play icon - to see the content, merely click on it. Eat my *ss, drudgereport.
A Riddle: What do the Earth, Saturn, Jupiter, Io, Uranus, and Neptune have that the moon, Venus and Mercury don't?
Curious George: Landline ahoy! Hey monkeys. I'm moving to a new place and pondering dumping the landline totally. Anybody out there landline-free? Pros and cons? The only service we really need at home is high-speed Internet; is that more expensive without regular phone service?
Eat plutonium death, disgusting alien scum! Read the first ever appearance of D.R. & Quinch in 200AD, courtesy of the BBC. One of Alan Moore's quirkier creations. [more inside]
Figures of Speech. An interesting look at the various literary tools employed by writers and examples of their use. This is a useful resource for students of literature or simply those who enjoy reading and writing.
Curious George: Which new language
would you most like to learn if given the chance? Why?
... sort of follow-up to this and this.
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22 beautiful things, selected by this guy from this place.
Sing for your supper.
(or in this case breakfast). Here's a TV commercial (MP2) that just started running in Canada this month, for a Yogurt drink called Yop. It's fun, so start the week off right!
courtesy Screenhead via LF
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Doodlebug
(flash)
Draw Draw Draw
February 21, 2005
Bush smokes bush!
(The monkeys are slipping?) First Bill Cosby is accused of sexual assualt, and now George Bush is a coke head? Where are all the role models gone?
Next thing you know the rumors of Bush having KKK ties will be found to be true. People where are the family values!?
The 'Posture Photos' The questions about nudity and our attitude to the naked body on the Lolo thread reminded me of this: freshman students, both male and female, were being photographed nude by university authorities during the 40-60's. Supposedly a voluntary practice for some anthropological project, most weren't consulted, and they accepted it as a normal procedure. But ever since, the value of the project has been questioned. While some of the institutions take it lightly nowadays, it was quite an strange event. A few pictures can be seen here, with the needles quite visible (900K Acrobat PDF) [more inside]
Hand painted Russian film posters (for non-Russian films)
Bleeding Edge gothic dolls. "We, the Begoths, are the purveyors of medieval delights, the esoteric eccentrics for a new millenium, as our palate desires the gothic necessities that run as blood through our veins."
Paris got hijacked (hizacked) (NSFW) Paris Hilton had her Sidekick hacked. More interesting than the main link, which is mostly just the photos she had on it, is her address book(SFW). Ever felt like calling Eminem? (Don't bother; his voicemail is already full. Why not try someone less famous? Like Fred Durst. I left a message for him earlier this morning...)
It puts the lotion in the basket. We've all got mad at our parents, but surely this is going a bit far? [via.]
Hunter S. Thompson commits suicide. He stomped on the tarmac. [more inside]
One Year Performance, by Sam Hsieh. (Quicktime movie, slow-loading.) Tehching (Sam) Hsieh made five "One Year Performance" pieces: the Cage Piece, in which he spent a year in a cage; the Time Piece (also see main link), where he punched a clock every hour for one year; the Outdoor Piece, spent entirely outdoors; Art/Life, collaborating with Linda Montano, to whom he was connected by an eight-foot rope; and the fifth, unnamed performance, marked by an absence of art (halfway down). [more inside]
February 20, 2005
Curious George: Curse of Lolo...
I was on Google last night looking for more info on Lolo Ferrari, clicked on a link to a site, saw a split-second glimpe of a plain white background with 30 typed ones in the top left-hand corner, like this;
111111111111111111111111111111
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oh pollux! (flash warning)... magic roundabout, the movie. [more inside]
goodbye cruel world! [more inside]
Patterns! Beautiful patterns! Remember Mac OS 6? Remember making patterns pixel by pixel with your choice of 8 colors? This is sort of like that but way cooler. I was just using some on my webthing and thought I'd share. Also, check these out.
The Somerville Gates You may already know about this gates. But be assured that these works of art are no copies one from the other. They are quite different.. For those of you who will not be able to visit to New York (and live near Somerville), this is your chance... until the cleaning lady comes.
Curious George OK, I really couldn't find this on google. Is it Lindsey Low-hann or Lindsay Low-an? I've heard both on TV.
The Sad Surreal Life and Death of Lolo Ferrari...
NSFW/NUDE PHOTO This started off as sort of a silly post about breast implants, before I realised Lolo had died. The more I dug into it, the stranger and sadder it got.
She must have been very lonely at the end.
bzzzpeek a collection of 'onomatopoeia' from around the world using sound recordings from native speakers imitating the sounds of animals and vehicles.
February 19, 2005
Nothingness: a lifestyle? Musician finds success as a successful bum, and writing about it. (via Lew Rockwell) [more inside]
Pictures of Walls "A gallery of walls with stuff written on".
Ottawa Meetup Pics Here are the Ottawa photos, as promised - only a few, unfortunately. If you follow the tags marked Metafilter, you'll see more photos from the other attendees (including marginally better photos of myself - I love you, tracicle, to put such a crappy one of myself up there in your shoutout!). We had a good turnout, 11 in total, with two dual citizens (myself, bonehead) and one outright Monkey (StoryBored). We missed mare and wished Rorschach had shown up with his mohawk.
The Skyscraper Page. The Petronas Towers, the Chrysler Building, and the Sears Tower are all well known, but have you ever looked at a building and said "What is the name of that?"--even in the city you’ve lived in all your life? SkyscraperPage.com (loads slowly) has a detailed city search of buildings great and small. Also, check out the diagrams of over 2,000 buildings currently under construction. [more inside]
The budget traveller's guide to sleeping in airports Including top tips on the best and worst airports for sleeping in.
Famous Monkeys. Mr Monkey does not make claims that this list is complete, so spare him your righteous outrage if you think of a simian which is not represented here.
Vatican offers exorcism courses. In 1999, the Vatican issued the first new exorcism ritual since 1614, so formal lessons make sense, I guess. I hope the exorcism students aren't paying much for their classes, though, since the rites are available on the Internet. [more inside]
Doukutsu Monogatari - Cave Story (game)
Curious George: What to creationists believe about other scientific findings? [more inside]
The new art club. I predict that the popularity of art clubs will skyrocket. Men visiting these venues will be recognized as art coinnoseurs.
Bugs may be classic, but now he's extreme, too. In an effort to revitalize the classic Looney Tunes characters for a young audience, Warner Brothers' has redesigned Bugs et al as futuristic crimefighters. Not everyone is happy about it, though, and judging by this preview the results may be a mixed bag. (Heavily trafficed Quicktime site.)
Monkeys are good people. I just thought we could all use a little reminding, considering the strife of the past several weeks.
The Smoking Gun has released the grand jury testimony in the Michael Jackson case.
Once again, we're looking down the barrel of a "trial of the century." Why are we so intrigued (even if in a train wreck I-can't-stop-looking sort of way) by celebrity/high profile trials? Why do they get so much media coverage? Why do we care?
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Curious George: Feline Hyperesthesia Syndrome...
I'm wondering if anyone has had any experience with this.
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February 18, 2005
Cocktail Waitresses To Be Fired For Gaining Weight A casino has announced a policy that anyone who increases their weight by more than 7 percent can be fired. [more inside]
Something about Sofie... The dirtiest comments I've ever read !... [more inside]
Reality TV show helping marriages is now casting. Lifetime TV reality show is bringing wedded bliss back to some disillusioned wives in a new series.
The Eggcorn Database Many people who lack a flare for language, when given free reign to write, instead of towing the line, put English through the ringer. In future, don't just grin and bare it; issue a cease and decease! Heave scorn on the abusers! Help preserve the goal standard of written English! [more inside]
Curious George: Sunny and Secluded Camping in US?
I'm thinking of blowing town for a week or two. Looking for warm, beachside camping in a mostly abandoned park (aren't we all?). Any of you sunmonkeys got some advice?
Here's what I've come up with so far.
A flow of water greater than that of all the rivers on earth. Most cultures have stories of the flood. But this flood dwarfs the myths. Waterfalls 3.5 miles wide and 400 ft high were created. Noah was contacted but said "no comment".
The virtual locust effect ...
The linked site used to host downloads of Chris Morris related media files. A natural fpp for any of the filter/link sites you might think.
Unfortunately the result of them being posted on the Blue was that their bandwidth shot up and the site's owners had to take it down until the swarm passed and replace it without the downloads.
This raises a question - should we be aware of the locust affect when we link to a site?
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. if you thought disaster-related kitsch was a relatively recent phenomenon... [more inside]
Vibrate your way to health. "Stronger. Faster. Smarter. Advanced vibration technology. Maximum results in minimum time: The 10-minute success!" (From the "Sometimes These Things Just Write Themselves" File.) Totally SFW; annoying Flash warning.
Jimmy Hats vs. the Clap On Wednesday's Lou Dobbs Tonight, Florida Rep. David Weldon (R) claimed that condoms "can only protect a man about 30 percent of the time and a woman about 60 percent of the time from contracting gonorrhea." Is that true? The studies I found are epidemiological, not clinical, and don't provide any hard numbers. I'd love to call his office and yell at them, but I want to go in well-armed.
"Hey there. I'm Todd. I'm from Corporate McDonald's. We're trying out a new promotion today."
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Folk medicine - UCLA's searchable database. Or you could try one of these. If all else fails, maybe an Anglo-Saxon charm will sort things out.
The police said it was a joy to produce the photographs of Park caught red-handed.
It's a been a couple of days, time for another L.A. meetup. This coming Thursday (February 24) at 7:00pm. The Liquid Kitty in West L.A. 11780 W. Pico Blvd. Giant Robot (no relation to sexyrobot, as far as I know) isn't too far away, if you want to make the most of your trip to the west side. [more inside]
"To those who value the Charter yet oppose the protection of rights for same-sex couples, I ask you:
If a prime minister and a national government are willing to take away the rights of one group, what is to say they will stop at that? If the Charter is not there today to protect the rights of one minority, then how can we as a nation of minorities ever hope, ever believe, ever trust that it will be there to protect us tomorrow?"
- PM Paul Martin, addressing the Canadian Parliament on same sex marriage and the Charter of Rights. via metafilter.
Hardboiled Detective Slang. You'll be spittin like a shamus in no time.
For all John Cleese fans The real Fawlty Towers! You can vacation there!
February 17, 2005
homeland security seizes "harmful art" Last time it was Austrians calling US artists immoral.
The "Worst Bridesmaid's Dress" Competition Video link of the Minnesota History Center's fashion show of some of the worst dresses. I have to think the monkeys here had some worse ones... should we win the Star-Tribune's matching contest? If you don't have a photo, at least tell us about the worst one you've had to wear...
So the NHL season is canceled. Who cares? With video games and other exciting options, that reptile in your brain that wants blood can be sated without watching sports. Whether or not video games lead to violence is a moot point. The question is what giant falls next: The NFL? Why pay players? Who needs the real thing when we got game?
SXSW is coming. Is anyone from here going? If you are, I suggest an Austin meetup for monkeys from scattered parts. [more inside]
Curious George: Dating. Seriously, what's the dating situation like these days? (read on) [more inside]
To Bell the Cat? Curious George for cat owning monkeys - help! Remember the rat? This morning it was a bird, quite alive, pretty large, caught & carried inside somehow in the 10 minutes between my opening the pet door for the day and getting dressed. Has anyone ever put a bell on their cat? Did it work? I'm worried that he might hang himself, and I remember a cat we had when I was a kid who would just lose his collar every day until we gave up. Hints, suggestions, commiserations, thoughts?
Just in case atom bombs fall - a hand book for civilians
Reminder: Ottawa Meetup
Ottawa Meetup: the date is upon us. We meet tomorrow at Pub Italia at 7pm.
Hope some of you Ottawans can make it! And bring implements for shoutouts. Possibly also a banana, so we'll recognize each other. ;)
Built on a Haunted Naive American Burial Ground Ah, noble savage, the Naive American. The term 'Naive American' is widely recognized as meaning a person who is of a tribe or people indigenous to the United States. When Naive American men got together to make peace or conduct their business, they often shared a long-stemmed pipe of tobacco called the calumet, which they believed induced "good thoughts." [more inside]
MoFi has had a tough past few days, even losing several beloved monkeys along the way (we miss you Christophine, Path, Beeswacky, *sigh*). It's time for something fun... something perky, something to improve our lives... it's time for THE CUP-A-CAKE! "This unique container will hold a frosted cupcake in place with protrusions positioned in such a way that the cupcake will not move within the container if bounced, jiggled, or turned upside down."
The guillotine.
Not, in fact, invented by Dr Guillotin: last used in France in the 1970s.
And, er, nothing to do with the previous post. No, indeed.
Princess Michael of Kent Britains most famous Nazi puts her foot in it again. She really should have married Prince Philip. It is time the Commonwealth was disbanded, and its members made republics.
Where do you steal your music? I assuage my guilt by using a credit card and buying music from allofmp3.com which, BTW is a great fucking website if you are comfortable with the Russian Republic's royalty rates. It's still a rip-off if you think the "old laws" apply. I am an anomoly, though: I don't buy new music at all, ever. It will take me another 10 years to "re-buy" all the music I used to have, and I am happy to have the opportunity. Jesus, I just watched the "Live Aid" DVD last night and saw massive gaps in my jukebox. But tell us where you get your tunes and don't worry about it. There is no harm in opening the door, right?
It Could Be Worse Banana Snarfers; Our Pagan Rituals Could Suck... [more inside]
Fuck dem' bitches! This is my first post ever and I am looking cute and feeling cute.
You've never heard of Tchoukball? Wll, neither had I until I visited this site. As a rather active monkey interested in the philosophy and ethics of sport, Tchoukball provides an interesting example of how different starting points can influence the direction of a sport's rules and culture.
Korfball, the world's most popular Dutch-made sport. Probably closest in description to netball or handball, korfball was created so boys and girls could play together "on equal terms". It's catching on around the world (need more words!) and has been a demonstration sport at the Olympics (Okay, in the 1920s, but still). And if you don't want to join a club right now, you can "bet" on tournament winners! [more inside]
How YOU doin'? Missouri #1 State For Getting It On! I, of course, was totally clued in from the get-go. [more inside]
Canterbury's final voyage. The HMNZS Canterbury was built in the Clyde shipyards and launched in 1971. It seems likely to end up as a dive spot, but it's most famous moment was when the Labour Government of 1973 sent it to escort a flotilla of private vessels protesting French nuclear testing in the Pacific, an action which lead to the ending of open-air tests. [more inside]
What have I become? my dearest friend..... I gave up on baseball when those overpayed, primma-donna bench jockeys went on strike years ago, and I think I'll do the same for hockey.
February 16, 2005
Communication, George Without realizing I was being offensive, I accidentally insulted an on-line buddy of mine (who is gay) by calling a member of the opposing team a "fag" for hoarding weapons and hiding. During our subsequent discussion, I noted that he had used the term "raped" (as in: "We sure raped those jerks") to describe a particularly spectacular victory over another team. On-line communication is informal, but are we going too far in speaking without thinking? Or is the non-PC, speak first, think later formula fine for most. [more inside]
Blue America: The land of the easily offended Dennis Prager argues that blue people (i.e., liberal Democrats) are more easily offended than red people (i.e., conservative Republicans), and more readily take umbrage at any comment about women, African Americans, Jews, American Indians, gays, etc. than others. [more inside]
Kodomo no kuni
Children's books in 1920's Japan. A gallery of illustrations and songs.
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Guardian article on Christian Marclay,
avant-garde turntablist, in advance of his upcoming Barbican retrospective.
"You could say that Marclay is obsessed with records.... But it would be more accurate to say he is obsessed with examining the way mass-produced objects act as filters, intercepting the signal as it travels from a source to the organs of sense. 'For me the record is this strange object that has completely transformed the way we think about sound. First of all it turned sound into something material that you can hold in your hand, and it turned it into a commodity you can make money with, which pretty much changes everything.'"
The Craig's List Experiment I guess this is the risk you run when answering anonymous ads. Pretty harsh, though.
In what year was your first name most popular? What percentage of people had it? I just killed an hour playing with this thing.
Godzilla thinks of the children. Photos from a stone-cutting shop in Japan. A bit of fun for a bleak day [via boingboing]. [more inside]
twexus (21743 images)
Care to try your hand at a caption for this picture? As part of our occasional feature "Captioning Mirth and Jocularity", we bring you this gem. Or perhaps a caption would be superfluous.
Geek George: Inkjet printer that doesn't suck. We have to replace our inkjet printer, and it needs to be a dual Win/Mac printer. However I'm kinda lost on how to select a good one (read on)... [more inside]
Curious George: Papa needs a brand new bag Just picked up a new laptop, need a new carrying case to go with it. [more inside]
Curious George, Westminster! Any dog lovers out there watch the Academy Awards of the canine world Monday and Tuesday nights? Sweetie and I flew up to see it in person. Coolest detail: They hawk champagne in the stands! Guys come around yelling, CHAMPAGNE! CHAMPAGNE! and offer up little plastic glassesful. Heh. How very... Westminster.
Camion cartoons a kind of follow-up to the interesting images posted by dj a couple of days ago: letters home (with cartoons) from Kirkland H Day, a member of an American camion unit in 1918. A bit of a contrast with the postcards my own grandad sent home, which generally read: "Hoping this finds you as it leaves me, in the pink". Occasionally (at times of special emotional stress?) he would add "Send fags."
Straight Outta Compton (mp3) by Nina Gordon Just the best gangsta cover I've ever heard. That is all.
They Fight Crime , Arab style. Jalila, Zein, Aya and Rakan are superheroes from the land that invented comics 4000 years ago (well, hieroglyphs, anyway.) (Top link to WashPost, reg. req.) [more inside]
Schmuck Interviews Putz Warning: NSFWIYBUYBHNSOH (Not Safe For Work If Your Boss Understands Yiddish But Has No Sense Of Humor)
Who elected the Pentagon as Mayor of CRAZYTOWN ? NY Times reg req'd, so bugmenot will help. [more inside]
Discover the network. David Horowitz's "Guide to the Political Left. It identifies the individuals and organizations that make up the left and also the institutions that fund and sustain it." [more inside]
Are you a spy?
Poles have been logging on to the internet in record numbers this week after a journalist accidentally posted the names of tens of thousands of Communist-era police informers on a website.
February 15, 2005
Who's old now?
With 40 year-old hipsters kickin' it with tha kiddies, is anybody old? Will age still matter in ten years?
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ChoicePoint:
Criminals posing as legitimate businesses have accessed critical personal data stored by ChoicePoint Inc., a firm that maintains databases of background information on virtually every U.S. citizen.
ChoicePoint warns more than 30,000 they may be at risk.
Oopsie!
Oh, and ChoicePoint was also the company that was paid $4 mil. in a no-bid contract from Florida's Katherine Harris to draw up felon rolls before the 2000 election. Discussed here.
The ALLERCA Foundation "is dedicated to preserving endangered animal species through the use of current and future genetic technologies" such as DNA banking... but there seems to be a profit-driven angle involving hypo-allergenic kitties as well. Veterinarians will have to pony up $1,000 per year to be licensed to "OK" the cats after they're shipped by Allerca. [more inside]
acid trip Gumby cartoons ---made by the art collective PaperRad in Providence, RI.
Gregory Jacobsen NIGHTMARE FUNTIME ART!
Bosch crossed with dripping cotton candy served on a radiantly broiled hank.
odd paintings!
Captain Underpants Create your own comic
100 Movies that deserve more love. [more inside]
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1,000,000 (DRM-Free) Songs In Your Pocket A theoretical look at how one might use Winamp to fill 252 CD's via Napster's 14 day trial period. Via Boing Boing [more inside]
The naughtiest (and possibly NSFW-est) games of all time. [more inside]
Tassili N'Ajjer, a plateau in the Sahara, has thousands of curious rock paintings. More pictures here and here. Also a video. (Not worth it if you're on dial-up). Some of the pictures, it is argued, are evidence of a prehistoric psychoactive mushroom cult. Tassili is on the World Heritage List, but in spite of their isolation the paintings are becoming increasingly subject to vandalism and theft.
Pro-ana girls attack Museum of Hoaxes A forum post about whether a pro-anorexia websites are real attracts pro-ana kids to the fascinating Museum of Hoaxes, spawning six pages of uninformed debate, eating disorders, cutters crying for help, tirades on American cuisine, bad spelling, unpredictable capitalization, and at least one reference to Nazism. A fascinating glimpse into the very strange world of pro-ana subculture (some images NSFW). [more inside]
Write A Caption For This Picture
The Toymaker has some nifty, simple paper projects to print and assemble, like otters with wardrobe and dancing skeletons. Like the ghoulish? Maybe you could use a coffin box or perhaps a medieval helmet. For those with clear eyesight and a steady hand, try constructing New York landmarks like the Chrysler Building and the Brooklyn Bridge. Take your pick. [more inside]
But, Duuuuude, it's ORGANIC! Mendocino County, CA takes the lead in protecting its citizens.
February 14, 2005
The "Jeff Gannon" story exploded on the blogosphere today.
Link possibly NSFW, some links on page definitely NSFW. For those not in the know, see this earlier post. A man calling himself Jeff Gannon was asking softball questions at a Presidential press conference (full press conference here.) and at White House daily briefings for some time.
Turns out the guy was (and perhaps still is) a male prostitute.
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Prepare to meet your mouthless masters. I always knew that harmless, cute icon was a front for some sinister activity... seriously, how long until we get to witness some fake UFO trailing a N*ke banner? (SFW image; some comments and the rest of the site very much NSFW)
Breathe deeply. Go to the Happy Place. Visualize Dick.
"Positive imagery around negative situations and
circumstances, or people you love, can create miraculous results."
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Patent attempted for human and ape lab chimera A New York scientist's seven-year effort to win a patent on a laboratory-conceived creature that is part human and part animal ended in failure Friday, closing a historic and somewhat ghoulish chapter in American intellectual-property law.
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Curious George: The Obligatory Valentine's Thread
General Zod is not amused. Perhaps you expounded here or needed some backstory to truly appreciate this greeting card holiday. Discussion, stories, . . probably some liqour, a few hormone-overclocked simians, etc. inside . . .
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Hieronymus Bosch's The Action Figures of Earthly Delights
Eerie and informative colour photos of WWI
I have come across only a few colour images of WWI (sic). These images used the autochrome method. Developed by the Lumiere brothers, autochroming was the only industrial colour photography method available until 1935, when it was largely replaced by the system developed by Kodak.
These pictures can completely change one's perception of the War. They are far different to the monochrome images of the trenches and the wounded that I am most familiar with.
Curious George: Medication Alternatives I'm looking for some info on dietary or other useful alternatives to taking medicaiton for depression and anxiety. [more inside]
Thomas Friedman & the Chocolate Factory
The realities on the war on terrorism and the war in Iraq (two separate issues in my view) are much different than how these serious issues play in Thomas Friedman's mind. I often feel I have stepped into Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory everytime I read the latest opus by the neocon Times columnist.
Friedman has a brainstorm on how the reward money for Osama bin Laden and Abu Musab al-Zarqawi should be used instead. Hey kids, let's throw an essay writing contest.
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February 13, 2005
The top ten reasons I hate lesbian porn. Come on, girls.
Curious George: What did you do today? Seeing as we're 22 hours into the calendar day and there have only been five posts, I couldn't help wondering where the monkeys are. Where were youse guys today? [more inside]
A brief history of timelines expressed as a timeline. Next stop: a chronology of postings about the timeline of timelines.
On the morality of pr0n. NSFW, essay with nekkid girls in the sidebar. [more inside]
Grise Fiord. At latitude 76ºN, Grise Fiord is the most northerly town in North America: You'd have to walk 320 miles north from Barrow to get this close to the North Pole. This neat photo collection gives you a picturesque glimpse of what life is like in Grise Fiord, along with info about the Inuit culture.
Make a font out of your own handwriting! If you decide to download your handiwork, it'll run you $9. I'm still working on mine- just goes to show how hard it is to make readable, balanced typography.
February 12, 2005
The human freakshow! Here is some utter hilarity, for the monkeys. The old time freak show has been resurected for your pleasure!
Mama, What's a Mashee?
Mashees. . . downtown Asheville is full of them. Here's a place to meet some of our finest. Be sure to check this out for sheer weirdness. (warning: video, immediate noise)
disclaimer: Not a self link; I don't know exactly who puts this site together offhand but I am pretty sure I've gotten drunk with them a couple times.
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Military.com , a Monster.com site, is the largest online military destination, offering free resources to serve, connect, and inform the 30 million Americans with military affinity, including active duty, reservists, guard members, retirees, veterans, family members, defense workers and those considering military careers. [more inside]
My Secret Life The sex diary (in 11 volumes) of Walter, whose real identity remains uncertain. (This is uncensored Victorian porn. NSFW.)
Wreck homes like Angelina! Flash, language probably NSFW, hi-larity.
Take a Virtual Skate down the World's Longest Skating Rink. Click on "Virtual Tour" on the left to skate really fast down the 7.8 km of the Rideau Canal, here in my hometown of Ottawa in the Great White North. If you've never skated or want to improve your skills check out the Recreational Skating FAQ . And of course you can work on the mysterious, the unfathomable and totally cool hockey stop.
Brown Bunny Sex Scene Quictime video. NSFW
The Money Shot: an online series. (NSFW site and episodes): "A dark comedy about the business side of the porn business". Old - I first watched these in 2001 - but amusing enough to share on a lazy Saturday. The creators released seven episodes in one year but, sadly, nothing since. Each is around 10 minutes long. Here's the first episode at iFilm (they have all of them, just follow the links in the synopses).
Linux Virgin Not all of it is up yet, but it's pretty funny. Geeks on Valentine's Day? (Not Safe For Work, but who's at work on Saturday? Not your boss! Download away!)
temporary anesthetics (comic strips)
A Quiz with no Right or Wrong Answer For those of you who don't want to click on the link, there's: [more inside]
Curious Blog Photo Questioning George:
My wife has recently started using blogger. She was using Flikr! to upload photos in order to have a url to link to for embedded images. However, she did not realize that Flikr! has a limited number of free monthly uploads. Can you reccomend a similar service that allows unlimited free uploads?
(both she and I are relatively new to the blogging world and might be missing something obvious here, so please point that out if that is the case.)
Curious, George: I'm trying to find some books that I read as a child so that I might give them to my (new) neice. However, I only have some vague recollections of a few of them. [more inside]
February 11, 2005
Here Comes Da Judge! Oklahoma courts are pumped full of hot, sweet justice.
There are only ten Rorschach inkblots. After repeated letters from dozens of outraged psychologists and psychiatrists claiming that this page "violates the copyright on the Rorschach Test", we feel compelled to post this notice: The information presented here, including the outlines of the Rorschach inkblots, is not in violation of copyright law. Please don't waste your time writing us to complain or threatening to "turn us into the publisher".
Greg Dulli On Morning Becomes Eclectic
Real player video and it's not on the link. On the webpage.
For you monkey that remember Greg Dulli during his pretty boy days in the Afghan Whigs. Well, he's fat now.
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I linked to this story yeterday, but now there's more to tell. It seems that Wal-mart isn't really wanted in Quebec, which makes me happy. Death threats aren't really my thing, but bomb threats to Wal-mart stores do make me smile. [more inside]
OBEY Donuts
The donut represents the letter "O" in obey. Let them know every time they have a donut, they are reminded to OBEY!
That and all sorts of other fun Bible recipe ideas.
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Name Voyager cool java applet that takes an input name and shows it's popularity over time. via memepool
Arthur Miller RIP
Valentine's Day Sucks!
Ah Valentine's Day! Otherwise known as "The End of The World Day" if you're single. This ghastly Hallmark Holiday is named after a martyred Roman who was beaten to death for not renouncing his Christianity. What a glorious history!
Fortunately we've found a more palpable figurehead in a fat naked baby with a crossbow...
We have scientifically documented that being in the presence of the energy of a Painting That Heals is what actually alters & heals the viewer's physical & energetic body. Paintings That Heal are created to address individual and environmental healing needs.
Help, Too Much iPod or Not Enough? Technologically stunted individual needs help deciding between mini iPod v. regular (+) [more inside]
Tracy Emin's Everyone Harry Potter Has Every Snogged With [more inside]
"A guy named Arkhipov saved the world."
Everyone knows that the Cuban missile crisis brought the world to the brink of nuclear war. But in an underreported story from 2002, it was revealed just how close: one word.
The Village Voice's annual Pazz & Jop music meta-poll, including Christgau's Dean's List.
Child labour.
The Chittagong and Alang shipbreaking yards are where most of the world's commercial shipping go to die.
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February 10, 2005
Ôwych! Wales actually beats another country at rugby. And in other news...
A follow-up to this previous thread on MeFi . For those who believe in Karma Id have to say its coming back around with a vengeance. [more inside]
Help I've been playing with the Donnie Darko website for a few days and I can't figure it out...yes I know I'm a moron. [more inside]
Please don't kill me for this I just thought this was too funny... (I was searching google for something completely unrelated when I saw these results...) [more inside]
National Security Archive (George Washington University). A fascinating and newsworthy vault of declassified U.S. government documents covering key items of policy and defense. See original papers on Nixon's China visit in 1972, the Iran crisis of 1979, and bickering over the Rwandan genocide. Don't miss the Top Ten oldest FOIA requests to see secrecy in action. Related MoFi FPP: Cryptome/Cartome.
All that jazz: Penn Jillette, of Penn & Teller, and Paul Provenza have a new documentary about comedy that, like most works that explore the extremes, helps define an art. Previously referred to here. (NSFW) [more inside]
Give it Away George! Gmail invites, does anyone still need them? [more inside]
Curious George: Computer Burp Curious George: My computer decided that since I said good things about it, it had to prove me wrong. [more inside]
Sweatin' Monkey: Being the worst creative thinker of gifts out there, I am imploring the ever-brainy simians for some help on a Valentine's Day gift for my sweetie. [more inside]
Creepy head shots.
Wait 15 seconds after the page has loaded...
Via Blork
Engelbert Humperdinck - SuperSpy Well....not really. The NSA apparently does some training, and although they normally use fictional names, this time they decided to use Engelbert Humperdinck's name. Then the speculation began. [more inside]
Curious Charles. Trivia question: What couple was together decades ago, married others, split from their spouses, reunited and are wedding the first week in April? Answer: SideDish and her sweetie (April 9) and Prince Charles and Camilla (April 8)! Interesting coincidence, eh? Anyhoo, all you Brit monkeys, how do you feel about Chuck and Cammy finally making it legal?
Yeknom, Inc. Now hiring. Opposable Thumbs A Plus.
Pants More immoral "morality" from the legislators of the so-called land of the free. [more inside]
Furious George Tries To Get Rid Of Adrenalin
...How do you calm yourself down after something freaks you right out? Hot baths? Warm milk? Pacing and swearing? I just finished writing out yet another witness statement for the cops.
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Guess the Whale from its Song! [requires flash or flashboy]
A Literary Life Born of Brutality. J.T. Leroy has published three books already, and he's just in his mid-20s. According to the New York Times article linked to at the head of this FPP: He has become the de rigueur literary recommendation for a certain set of hipsters — Tom Waits, Bono and Liv Tyler have singled out his writing in interviews — and has been embraced by established writers including Tobias Wolff, Michael Chabon and Mary Gaitskill, and by a cadre of celebrities with, as it happens, their own troubled pasts, like Courtney Love, Winona Rider, Tatum O'Neal and Billy Corgan. He's been profiled in the Village Voice, writes lyrics for the band Thistle, and just had his book of stories made into a movie by Asia Argento, his friend. [more inside]
Alan Keyes Daughter Comes Out of the Closet Alan Keyes daughter comes out of the closet to speak for Equality Maryland.
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March to Lawyer�s Mall (in front of the State House) for the rally, featuring community leaders, Judy Shepard, and Maya Marcel Keyes, the self-described queer activist who is also daughter of ultra-conservative Alan Keyes, whose recent campaign for senator from Illinois included his calling Mary Cheney a �hedonist.� Maya group up in Montgomery County and will certainly have some interesting things to say about living with someone who is so outspoken in his opposition to gay rights.
A Day In the Life of Miss McDonald. [more inside]
Is William Rehnquist Deep Throat? OK, so there could be a million posts guessing who Deep Throat is. Here's a recent thread suggesting it was George Bush (the father). Recent revelations that Deep Throat is gravely ill make the Bush connection seem unlikely (unless he's sick and we don't know). [more inside]
Bird Type Specimens. The Zoological Museum Amsterdam has put up 3D images of part of their extensive stuffed bird collection. Pigeon, owl, finch, bird of paradise...but alas, no chicken.
February 09, 2005
Wireless George My wireless network is on the fritz and I can't figure it out. Help! [more inside]
Wal-whiners
: Walmart takes their ball and goes home.
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The Boston Globe
is the first major media outlet to pick up on the story of Jeff Gannon, "reporter" for Talon News, and an approved member of the White House press corps.
Mr. Gannon is, in fact, a Republican Party shill and Press Secretary Scott McLellan's go-to guy for softball questions when the press conferences aren't going their way.
Ongoing MetaFilter discussion here.
White Power? I guess not. As discussed previously, Panzerfaust Records was responsible for Project Schoolyard, which distributed white power music to kids in an effort to foster hate.
R.I.P. Jimmy Smith
- News is just breaking that the king of the Hammond B3 passed away in his sleep yesterday.
We're one genius less today.
Holy Monkey: So today religion is wild and lose at monkeyfilter...coincidentally, today is Ash Wednesday...did any monkeys get their ash cross yet? I'm guessing yes, but, do international monkeys do it the same way? is it OK to say happy "ash wednesday!"...hmm...banana
Playful Chocolate -- a female Viagra? Just the thought of popping an exquisite chocolate into your mouth and letting its flavor melt into a warm, sensual liquid is enough to trigger feelings of pleasureable anticipation. (Don't worry, SFW.)
Curious frustrated George
My 7 year old nephew is driving my crazy trying to save my soul. Help.
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496 titles (75,365 pages) The collection is of international significance for researchers who study historical, cultural, social, and literary aspects of children's literature. More than half of the volumes collected here are unique among collections of children's literature elsewhere, whether in paper, microform, or digital format.
Curious George: Book Promo - How valuable is a mint promotional copy of a book? [more inside]
What's the best free thing you've ever scored? Love and lunch excluded. I found an insanely beautiful inlaid wooden dining table with a single drawer beneath running the whole length and accessible from two sides, apparently hand-made (metal not used in construction, all pegs and dovetails), with three different woods used to create the inlays. [more inside]
The Depression Era Cultural Landscape: UVA has put an incredible museum of 1930's culture online. They have comics: including Krazy Kat, SuperMan and Buck Rogers; radio broadcasts: including Jack Benny, and The Lone Ranger; and film clips: including Duck Soup, The Thin Man, and Citizen Kane plus documentaries of the era.
Curious George: Mardi Gras fun/Lent sacrifice? Did any monkeys get to do anything fun for Mardi Gras? (Like have a yummy king cake or any more adult oriented fun?) Do any monkeys give up something for Lent? [more inside]
White (Trash) House Menu Via Rox Populi: I'm sure many monkeys already know about White House chef Walter Scheib III being fired by Laura Bush. I don't think many people are aware of the menu he was forced to make during the inauguration. [more inside]
A chance to name a monkey (posted here for obvious reasons). I'd like to hear your suggestions for a species name (no bid required).
February 08, 2005
Curious, Sellout II Not trying to steal shiny's thunder, but her post really got me thinking... Considering that one spends the vast majority of their lives at work or sleeping, what did you want to be way back when, before your first job? [more inside]
Curious, Sellout? In your career, did you choose to work for love or money? [more inside]
The 100-year CD-ROM is a myth, according to a UK Independent expose last year [original source (subscription)]. A Dutch computer magazine found that CD-R dyes faded in as little as two years. Now what? Shall we start digging the floppy discs out of the attic?
Dumbass George: I'm a senior in high school and a matriculate at Tufts University for the 2005-06 school year. My grades since my acceptance have taken a nose dive, however, and I'm nearly failing calculus. Does the university have the right to withdraw my acceptance if I academically nosedive in the remainder of my senior year? Anyone have success/nightmare stories on the subject with regards to this school or others?
Google has released maps.google.com beta. [more inside]
I'm Knot, But My Friend Is. Knot that there's anything wrong with that...
Brown is the new White Snooker player Jimmy White has changed his name by deed poll to Jimmy Brown. All in the name of HP Sauce... [more inside]
Pancake racing is upon us again. The official Olney site. [more inside]
Size matters.
Really.
Handicapped Wrestling
The Japanese company Dog Legs organizes these matches. At the events, they have handicapped vs. handicapped, handicapped vs. non-handicapped, and handicapped vs. artificially handicapped.
First link has many images, so it might load slow. Second link might not be that useful to many, since its with japanese text and without pictures.
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A useful site if you're going to Japan. Business etiquette for foreigners (ie., non-Japanese). [more inside]
My soul feels so violated
The link actually reveals nothing about the topic of this post. I was just subjected to a dreamy JC Penny's commercial; A gorgeous couple sharing a beautiful, glorious day, love in the air... Bliss everywhere...
All set to a bastardization of the immutable 80's classic "99 red balloons". You remember, the cold war angst, stirred red-hot by the then provocative mini-series "The Day After"? Annihilation of the planet was always just moments away? Yes, reduced to a kitschy consumer-centric jingle...
Sort of like adapting Iron Maiden's "Run to the Hills" to advertise a weekend mountain getaway.
The zeitgeist of my generation has been rendered trite and meaningless in the blink of an eye.
Curious, George: Greek Names What are some examples of names from Greek/Roman mythology in advertising? [more inside]
Remember those awesome shortlived shows from the '70s?
Monkeys scream with fear. No kidding. Who'd thought it would have to go to court to prove it. [more inside]
How to Make an Internet Cartoon. [Flash] It is now another necessary step that you add text in the middle of the animation that is too long and impossible to read in the first action of the cartoon. Via ABS.
February 07, 2005
Howard Dean runs the Democrats Now. Running unopposed, Dean is expected to be elected as the head of the DNC on Feb. 12th. Yeeeaarrrrghhhh!! [more inside]
The Big Picture (pdf) on National Missile Defense. In the next few months the Canadian Government will have to decide whether they want to support the U.S. National Missile Defense System. So it would be nice to know if it's doomed to fail? or if it's a flawed scheme that can be fixed with some tweaking?. Either way anti-missile technologies have a troubled track record.
Cinematic George - Favorite Under-Rated Movies
I know that there have been posts about our favorite films, but since I have been renting a bunch of DVDs of films that I should have seen, but haven't yet from my local video hut, I was wondering if you monkeys have films that you enjoyed, but were underappreciated by the great unwashed.
They don't have to be highbrow, just something that you liked and most others didn't, including "guilty pleasures".
A puzzling timewaster - find the text in the images and move through the stages. The first stage or two are easy, but then things start getting tough.
New improvements in augmented reality make it possible to overlay computer-generated images onto your real-world view in realtime. Combine that with some smart tiles that add mobility and some hyper-realistic headphones and you got yourself some sweet virtual reality. Just keep it away from the robots.
MonkeyNewsNetwork
In San Francisco, the local zoo is now featuring a cuckolded gorilla named Oscar, who is still a virgin at 23, apparently because he is too nice. (... or maybe because "He's very interested in human males."
Meanwhile, in India, a "serious monkey menace" is terrorizing the city of Delhi-- not only the residents but the government ministries as well. Unfortunately, the plan to send the rhesus monkeys to the state of Madhya Pradesh has hit a roadblock- the local authorities are refusing to accept them. Lack of money and the fear of chaos have hobbled the plan.
Finally, today is the last day of the Year of the Monkey. Tomorrow begins the year of the Rooster. Apparently, that means no more wild-goose chases.
Monkeys pay for sex
I was so astonished by this article. It suddenly enlightened me to a magnitude of human behaviour, including my own.
*blushes*
The Princess Registry. Know a princessly person? Now you can make her official.
Missed it by that much. The imminent iceberg collision that wasn't.
A followup to an earlier post.
Looks like the Drygalski Ice Tongue is safe for now and it's business as usual at McMurdo.
An interview with Einstein [Windows Media]
Visualizing Music and Total Immersion Video: Two ways in which virtual reality is making a real world comeback. [more inside]
Soldiers This is what American fighters are really like. Spare me all the chest thumping they carry on with. The reality is that they stand around thinking they are playing a video game until somebody gets hurt. And then they go home crying like babies. [more inside]
The Fireman: In lieu of today's paul bashing, i give you his LSD psuedonym. (via my Mom) [more inside]
"After raiding a few Army camps, two communist guerrillas hid in a forest gorge and fell in love." Resulting in the first gay marriage between communist rebels in the Philippines. (An oddly cute love story a week before Valentine's.)
"NNDB is an intelligence aggregator that tracks the activities of people we have determined to be noteworthy, both living and dead.
Superficially, it seems much like a "Who's Who" where a noted person's curriculum vitae is available[...]
[...]But it mostly exists to document the connections between people, many of which are not always obvious."
It'll be interesting to see how this thing fleshes itself out.
And a heav-diddly-eaven-o to you! [more inside]
Under Germany's welfare reforms, any woman under 55 who has been out of work for more than a year can be forced to take an available job – including in the sex industry – or lose her unemployment benefit.[more inside]
For this man, ignorance could be bliss... or at least worth $90,000.
A Florida man is suing Bank of America for $90k because of a wire-transfer from his account that he never authorized. The transaction was made through BofA's online banking portal, and it seems that the plantiff is claming that a computer virus allowed someone to remotely administrate his machine.
His reason for litigation? BofA was negligent and failed to protect him from known risks with online banking. His suit includes "breach of contract, negligence, breach of fiduciary duty, fraud and deceit, and intentional misrepresentation".
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Double Package Post: Maria McKee & Alcohol Enema Two Monkey posts for the price of one. [more inside]
The SuperBowl Thread Best halftime show ever? Most disappointing SuperBowl commercials EVAR? Oh... and a pretty dang good game. Your comments? [more inside]
great guitar curious george,was wondering was that jeff beck playing guitar for paul during halftime?
The way we used to cook.
A huge pdf collection of cookbooks from the turn of the century and a collection of antique cooking tools
from MSU. It includes one from Fanny Farmer,
a book about Chinese and Japanese cooking from 1914,
the Manual for Army Cooks
circa 1896, and E.E. Kellog’s "Science in The Kitchen"
(remember The Road to Wellville
movie?).
Curious George - Help with Excel. I'm trying to create hyperlinks in my Excel spreadsheet and am getting errors. [more inside]
February 06, 2005
My addicted son. A father's story in the NY Times Magazine about dealing with his son's crystal methamphetamine addiction. [more inside]
New York Street Chalk Artists.
Someday a real rain will come and wash all this art off the streets.
Body Worlds
is unlike any exhibition that has ever come before. It explores bodily performance at a depth never before possible on such a comprehensive scale. Thanks to the breakthrough process of plastination, more than 200 real human specimens are displayed to reveal an extraordinary new look inside the human body.
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2 days 17 hours until Ellen Macarthur breaks the solo round-the-world non-stop multihull sailing record. A national hero in the UK, worshipped in France, she's gone 26,933 miles as I type this. Here's the live data from the boat. Go! Go!
DO YOU LOVE COSTCO AS MUCH AS I DO? Ok Monkies, Your task is this: Find the most amusing, interesting, or bizarre internet personals you can. And then post them in here. [more inside]
Meet Pando.
Older than a sequoia or bristlecone pine, it’s not just the oldest, but the largest.
Pando -- which means "I spread" in Latin -- is the perfect name for a stand of quaking aspen -- nominated a few ago as Earth's most massive living individual.
In the Wasatch Mountains of Utah, Pando weighs about six million kilograms, or 13 million pounds. It, or should I say he, has upwards of 47,000 stems -- that's 47,000 of what you and I might mistakenly perceive as separate aspen trees making up the Fishlake National Forest.
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Prince Harry Speaks "Since all of that fuss regarding my wearing a swastika armband at a recent costume affair, I�ve decided to keep this sensitivity journal, charting my increasing awareness of the feelings of others, especially those of different races, religions, and smells."
A new documentary premering on Monday on The Sundance Channel explores the theory that AIDS was a byproduct of the 1950's mass polio innoculations, which were supposedly contaminated by viruses which came from African chimpanzees. This theory first appeared in 1992 in The Lancet and Rolling Stone, of all places, and was later fleshed out in a 1999 book. [more inside]
The 2 headed dog! [more inside]
Dolphin's making vortex rings of air for fun. Young dolphins Tinkerbell and Maui make rings of vortex air that hover in the water. They play with them, get excited about them, and one has taught the other how to do it. See additional photos here. It is truly quite amazing. The 'rings of air' look like silver and due to the vortex do NOT rise to the surface.
Degrassi + Kevin Smith = Messed Pants.
If you live in Canada, you're smack dab in the middle of a three-parter of Canada's highest rated television series, Degrassi: the Next Generation, which features Kevin Smith, Jason Mewes, and even Alanis Morissette, who have all captured our hearts as the stars of Clerks and its many award winning sequels.
In the three-part story arc, Jay and Silent Bob are introduced to the series as directors looking for locations to shoot their new film, called Jay and Silent Bob Go Canadian, Eh? and they get into wacky hijinks with the characters of the middle school drama series. Rumor has it Smith has wild fat man sex with Caitlyn Ryan from Degrassi High. More info at Kevin Smith's website. Shit, this is awesome.
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February 05, 2005
The V-Chip Do any parents actually use it? There was such a big deal about it when it was implimented and the TV ratings boxes still appear, so because I'm not a parent and don't know any parents of young kids I'm curious if this feature is actually used by anyone or was it just another moral panic?
Super Fantabulous MoFi Meetup Deluxe The impossible meetup to end all meetups! Come one, come all! [more inside]
Just nabbed this from Big Blue. What do rugger, bridges, and camels have in common? They're all part of a collection of old Christchurch photographs. Memorised the collection? Try the quiz!
Curious George and the Man in the White Coat.
Curious George was never curious again.
[Flash, large]
Have you ever found yourself in a situation wishing that you were sweet like Uncle Jesse? Maybe your wife is giving you lip, or perhaps you've had your manhood challenged by your childhood friend Scott Baio. It could be just that you want to learn cool facts about a great TV character, or that you want to teach kung fu to a monkey. To find the answers to these questions, simply look deep within yourself and ask: What Would Uncle Jesse Do?
OrganicHTML is a very cool flash site that takes a URL and spits out a cool flash generated plant. I cant figure out what it is grabbing to form the plant but it seems to be some combination of files and directory structure I think. Any other insights would be appreciated as I can find no information written about how it works.
eBay: Advertise on my colon!!!! "You've seen ads on foreheads, arms, bikini bottoms, and pregnant bellies -- here's a chance to put advertising where it truly belongs. At 36 years old, my colon is healthy, robust, and ready to bear your message! Though invisible to the average eye, my colon will be viewed by an affluent audience of medical professionals"
The Japanese government is publishing a manual encouraging Japanese to return to using "polite" forms of expression. [Telegraph article.] For background, here's the Wikipedia article on polite forms in Japanese.
Furious George: Spastic Computer Fan. My Mac G4 is driving me nuts. [more inside]
Hel-loooooooooooo.
Lionel Richie bad 80s music video goodness, via Stereogum. Direct link to the music video. Warning: Hel-loooooooooooong download time/Quicktime.
Link to the hilarious Starburst commercial spoof, u:ad@ad.com/p:adage1
February 04, 2005
Curious, Nostril
...I demand your return! Seriously dude, you're as rare and adored as cat milk, and we miss your gruff fantastical-ness.
Hear our cries! Our teeth are worn from gnashing, our stash of ashes low from our wailing annointments...and the garments...Jesus Christ in a bread basket, I have never seen such rending!
Pretty please?
Thhe Cuddly Menace Pink Zogg will supervise population cleansing. [more inside]
Curious George: Email Glurge How do you deal with office email glurge? You know, the crappy emails that same coworker seems to send every day, usually with pink backgrounds, dancing animals, or multitudes of angels. Do you enjoy it? Do you ignore it? Do you get the IT Department to tell them to quit? [more inside]
MOFI CROSSOVER
"This is the thread where we change the word 'money' in a song lyric to 'monkey'"
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Boozy: The Life, Death, and Subsequent Vilification of Le Corbusier and, More Importantly, Robert Moses. "This February, Les Freres Corbusier finally puts the punk rock back into urban planning: Amidst a blaze of streaming media, ridiculous choreography, and dozens of live fornicating rabbits, a desperate battle is waged over the creation of New York's bridges, highways, and public housing." [more inside]
Moist Bread Ok so I recently started baking stuff, including bread. But bread, as it turns out, is really hard to make right. I keep making really dry bread. I've tried a variety of recipies, both bread machine and hand-made. I cover the dough with a damp towel when it's rising. The ingredients always include something that should make the bread moist- the last loaf I made included an entire stick of butter, and it was the driest yet! Could any culinarily-talented monkeys help? (Any other helpful suggestions/tips/lessons learned on the topic of baking bread would also be appreciated.)
Montana Family Coalition
objects to a bill that would make strangling a felony in cases of domestic abuse. The homosexuals have gone too far in hiding their agenda this time!
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Good bye Ossie. Distinguished writer, actor, director Ossie Davis has died at 87. [more inside]
The Guardian has a nice tribute to Bob Marley Sound, Flash who would have been sixty this month had he lived. The legacy Real media of the first Third World superstar lives on.
Asian Tattoo Artist Inks Revenge "Using a tattoo gun fashioned out of a sharpened paper clip, dental floss, and a ballpoint pen taped to a plastic spork, the disgruntled prisoner has drawn Black Panther Party symbols on white supremacists...."
Lovely parting gifts: For ladies, there's the Separation and Divorce Ring ("This glitter will take you thru the day ... and quietly, your smile will be the new beginning"). For gents, it's the Silver Bullet ("Say no to marriage. Say no to commitment. Say yes to the Silver Bullet").
SFC Paul Smith: Medal of Honor The St Petersburg Times has an excellent interactive section in tribute to Medal of Honor winner Sgt. Paul Smith.
Curious George: Good auto repair site? Is there a good in-depth auto repair site online? I have the obligatory Haynes manual, but it only gives a sketchy picture of the process without describing the big picture. Most websites I've found are like "how to change the oil", or deal with intricately specific & obscure problems. I want something that teaches me everything I need to know about a job, with good techniques, concepts, and advice. [more inside]
Domina mea exstat a tergo! A Latin translation of Sir Mix-A-Lot's hit Baby Got Back. Find the rest of the song translated elsewhere on LiveJournal. Classics scholars can also find a Greek translation here (although that page looks a little broken).
Normally, I don't like this sort of thing but it's fairly well done.
Google Print is in beta.
Daedilus Georgius Nonne linguam latinam amatis? Censetisne simiae et simii websiteam latinam bonnam?
The Watergate Papers Go Public In 2003, Woodward and Bernstein sold the notes they took during Watergate (the scandal that eventually forced President Nixon to resign, for non US monkeys)to the University of Texas. Now, the University is making some of the papers available to the public, starting Friday. You can view the papers at the University or online. [more inside]
February 03, 2005
Hopkin Explained. The resolution of the missing frog story. The news is pretty old, but I didn't see it mentioned in the original link, and a search didn't bring it up. The details are probably not what you'd expect.
Right Wing Ralphie! Sick of all those mamby-pamby, Homosexual Agenda-pushing, Traditional Family-destroying, depraved cartoon characters like SpongeBob (gay ambassador) SquarePants and Buster (the lesbian-loving) Rabbit? Then Right Wing Ralphie is for you!
Curious George wants a ‘nana. What did you eat as a child that you never eat now? MI [more inside]
Who's Who of classic game programmers
Subway Match The World's Best Website For Subway Riders, a forum where anyone can meet anyone else via the subway.
Jerry Springer - The Opera What an absolute load of crap! Best of the web? Well, if it saves us the ticket money, it's worth looking at.
Time for a singalong! Please, try to keep up.
Form help? C'mon monkeys...
Ack. I need some help with forms. or resources. or a drug dealer.
I need to make a form that returns info to an access db. I'm obviously too goddamn stupid to figure this out. Any good resources you monkey's use?
Women will get sterile just looking at you. Star Wars fans, cameras, and a desire to shoot fish in barrels.
F*ck Gramaglia Up. Documentary? Mockumentary? Regardless, while this short film may be difficult to watch (due to the psychological manipulation it depicts), you'll likely be unable to stop watching it. You may even find yourself laughing at it -- and if you do, you'll probably feel guilty about it.
Logos Galore, all in vector format. Seems to be quite a handful of logos here. Hope the copyright-infringement is enjoyable. Too bad they're not in one gigantor zip file...
Dreams of Space: These books outlined the future the children of the baby boom would grow up in, the world of space. The illustrations in these books show facts (as they were known) mixed in with the fantasy of space flight and led many of the readers of these books to "dream of space"
State of the Union Address Ok, fine, USA Filter. I admit it, but OMG no one else will do it: The State of the Union Address and Democratic response were on damn near every TV station tonight in the US, and I'm sure on quite a few non-US TVs as well. Discuss. Ponder. Whatever. Let's get it on!
Record rainfall creates chaos in Melbourne (bugmenot will help) In the period between 7pm 01/02/2005 and 7am 03/02/2005, 125mm of rain was dumped on metropolitan Melbourne - more in some areas. This has caused flooding and general chaos. [more inside]
Zork! The original text adventure. A MUD of one. Notice the "download" buttons at the bottom of the page.
Curious, George: Memory Troubles Not quite the same as previously discussed. I've been repeatedly told that I should write memoirs of some sort, but I can't seem to remember, well, most of my life. [more inside] [more inside]
February 02, 2005
You call this Ok, Al? Track listings for "Everything's Ok", Al Green's newest album, are all silly and I like that. They include: "Daphnis Et Chloe: Part I: The Young Girls Attract Daphnis's Attention And Surround Him With Their..." and "The Old Shepherd Lammon Explains That, If Pan Has Saved Chloe, It Is...". Click now, before they fix it.
Litterbox — Live Performance! (Flash) Amazing concert video of Litterbox performing their chart-topping hit "Hiss of Death" (complete with jumbotron and wall of sound). Could this be the biggest thing since "Cat Scratch Fever"?
I accept your nomination Senator Orrin Hatch, among others, is leading the campaign to amend the US constitution to allow me to become president of the United States. Of course, I'd have to at least visit, first, perhaps even settle. [more inside]
Doogle Google, Irish style. [more inside]
College columnist hides unethical message in column about ethics (first letter of each paragraph)
Lusty robots?
"Robots will have their own personalities and emotions..."
We. Are. Doomed.
Curious George: I want a TiVo! I know the basics - can anyone recommend the best type of TiVo and acccompanying DVD-R to have? What questions I should ask when I go shopping around? Month-to-month or lifetime subscription? Are they going out of business? Assume I'm a guy who watches a few shows regularly, loves movies, and is sick of seeing my river of full-package cable content flow by unexamined.
For the synth fetishists amongst us: self described 'dancer and electronic musician' Çikira is really, really into synths. like, a lot. Her site (admittedly a little crufty on the HTML front) is chock full of studio-pr0n. Hurrah! [more inside]
Curious, George: Ottawa Meetup! An Ottawa meetup is finally being planned! Along with MeFites, we're planning on Friday the 18th at Pub Italia. If that's no good, we can discuss alternatives [inside].
February 01, 2005
Everything you need to know about your airplane seat.
Curious, George: DVD to Powerpoint I need to import a video clip from a DVD into a PowerPoint presentation. I used Mac the Ripper to rip the DVD, but now I just have a copy of a DVD on my desktop. Any ideas how I can convert it to a useable file format?
Abstinence-only programs like those promoted by the Bush administration don't seem to be working on teenagers in the president's home state, according to a state-sponsored study by Texas A&M University researchers.[more inside]
An entry in Prince Harry's "Sensitivity For Others" journal...with a little help from "The New Yorker"
On Americans
"...To prove our kinship, I wore a great mound of padding and spoke very loudly. I immediately experienced a true bond with Yanks everywhere; I felt that we shared so much more than merely the gleeful bombardment of Muslim lands. I practiced yodelling Hi!, Howdy!, and Does that come in extra large?, all phrases useful at both shops and bistros."
ha ha ha
Cool wheelchairs! You gotta love any company that would name one of its chairs Spazz... or, um, maybe not. Are any monkeys out there wheelchair junkies? Whaddya think of these designs?
Curious George: Superbowl Sunday? First trip to NYC, arriving on Saturday night and wanting to dive headlong into US culture (jetlag permitting). [more inside]
Graffiti creator (Flash)
Monkeys pay to see female monkey bottoms My favorite quote: The scientists actually had to pay these guys, in the form of extra juice, to get them to look at images of lower-ranking monkeys.
Ask a Nineteenth-Century Whaling Expert. The academic bloggers at Crooked Timber explode the liberal myths that support the whaling ban and solve perplexing relationship issues along the way.
Curious George: Bored kitty. My sweet, sweet kitty is very, very bored [MI-aow].
Curious George: Chicago Jeweler? Know a good Chicago-area (accessible on public transport) jeweler? [more inside]
Make Mine Shoebox a video to be shown at various Hallmark coorprate meetings and events. (Quicktime) [more inside]
Medical George: Underweight How many here are underweight? What are your strategies and experiences in dealing with the condition? Please share your favorite resources! Websites, books, diets/supplements, clothing stores, etc. [more inside]
CBS News: Men Are Scum A report on tonight's CBS Evening News discussed progress toward a male birth-control pill which involves studying algae. The female reporter compared men to pond scum, and included women saying they didn't trust men to actually take such a pill. [more inside]
