Links posted in April 2007
April 30, 2007
Anonymous, George: How Do I Tell Him I'm a Damn Dirty Ape? So, after years of posting to MonkeyFilter, I think I want to tell my husband about this place. [more inside]
The Case of the D.C. Madam
Newsfilter: An attorney for Deborah Jeane Palfrey, the alleged "D.C. Madam," rejected accusations Monday that releasing a list of phone numbers used to dial Palfrey's high-end escort service amounted to blackmail.
The "sexual albeit legal" practices of the "erotic fantasy service" in Washington D.C. has wags squawking over the potential names dropped in the 46 pounds of documentation released to ABC news.
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72% of Americans don't know plastic comes from petroleum. My father once pointed out that the root word of "ignorant" is "ignore." Yeeaaah...
Entertainment giant Sony launches the highly anticipated 'God of War II' game with the apparent slaughter of a goat?
Electronics giant Sony has sparked a major row over animal cruelty and the ethics of the computer industry by using a freshly slaughtered goat to promote a violent video game.
The corpse of the decapitated animal was the centerpiece of a party to celebrate the launch of the God Of War II game for the company’s PlayStation game consoles.
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Gah! Husband keeps sending me creepy films today. [more inside]
The artwork of Jacek Yerka. I'd really like to visit some of these places one day. [more inside]
April 29, 2007
Curious George: Motorcycle Helmets Hey motor monkeys, I got a question. I just got a bike, and a shiny new helmet. It's a Fulmer modular flip-face. I couldn't find anything online about weather they offer as good of protection in a crash as a standard full face. Anyone here know? Any opinions in general?
You kids get outta my airplane! Schnell! Airbus A380 evacuation - 873 people in 77 seconds (YouTube). Worth watching for the music and crazy Germans alone.
Images from the Museo de las Momias in Guanajuato. Rather disturbing images. Some backstory. Some more backstory. More (equally disturbing) images here and here. [more inside]
April 28, 2007
Crime Boss Crime comic books from the 40s and 50s
April 27, 2007
Password: MONKEY We're number six!!!!
Exquisite sea slugs - such variety! [more inside]
the french hate themselves even more than we do ...I knew it.
I am 8-Bit (2007) 80s video game inspired art
Jersey wants a national anthem and has launched a competition to find one. Besides the theme tune from Bergerac, the main serious contenders are Ma Normandie(mp3) and Hedley Le Maistre's Jersey, mon vie. [more inside]
Eli Lilly And Company Introduces Reconcile(TM) For Separation Anxiety In Dogs.
Come, the croaking raven doth bellow for revenge.
William Shakespeare
Clever Ravens - Masters of Deceit
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April 26, 2007
The Sea Organ - a coastal installation at Zadar, Croatia, designed by architect Nikola Bašić. It plays strangely beautiful music with the aid of the Mediterranean Ocean, wind, some polyethylene tubes and a resonating chamber. Sample.
Work in literature. "Joshua Ferris, author of an acclaimed debut about office life, goes in search of the workaday world in American literature." From the U.K. Guardian. If you're gonna turn off your TV this week, you'll likely be reading more than normal. Might as well read the literature Ferris looks at, like Bartleby the Scrivener (setting: 19th century Wall Street), Kafka's The Metamorphosis, The Great Gatsby, Sinclair Lewis's Babbitt, Richard Yates's Revolutionary Road, and George Saunders's Pastoralia.
Fun at Home with Salt Water Aquariums. Fun, fun, fun 'till a 6-foot nocturnal worm starts eating your coral.
Remember kids - dogs go "bark", sheep go "baaa" [more inside]
"We are not starting a party because we have an ideology...a vision for a better Bhutan. We are starting a party because the king has ordered us." Democracy is coming to Bhutan by royal fiat.
TV Turnoff
Week!
Previously! Also! And here!
A week to turn off your TV (and computer?) in order to better understand what role TV plays in our daily lives.
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No seat on the Tube? Then these are the boots for you.
April 25, 2007
Jesus.is.a.Zombie.and.he'll.EAT.your.brains...
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Catapult Boy Learns The Hard Way
THIS
IS A SHOUTING THREAD!
BUT I'M NOT EXACTLY SURE WHY! UNLESS IT'S A CAPS LOCK THING!
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"The Dwarf Carried Other Worlds Too!" Today scientists from Geneva discovered the first Earth-like habitable planet just 20.5 light-years away in the constellation Libra. Larger, denser and most important: orbiting around a dwarf...
"For several years I haven't had a hair on my head, but since I started drinking my urine it's started growing again - it's extraordinary." Sadly, however, urine drinking in Cameroon could soon get you jail time. [more inside]
Fascist America, in 10 easy steps. By Naomi Wolf. Because it's been too long since we've enjoyed a good old skool "Bush sucks" thread. The intrepid H-Dawg posted this link here, but it seemed FPP-worthy.
April 24, 2007
Number systems of major languages and minor dialects [more inside]
"An amazing collection of postcards from the dawn of the twentieth century that depict what life would be like in the year 2000" This collection of German postcards were originally give-aways in Hildebrands chocolates in 1900 -- they depict the world as it would be in 2000. Included are a water-unicycle, slidewalks, locomotives pulling houses, personal airplanes, weather control systems, amphibious railways, police X-rays for seeing through walls, and, of course, zeppelins. Beautiful artwork, too [more inside]
David Halberstam 1934 - 2007 David Halberstam [wikipedia] was an American journalist and author . He wrote about sports and politics [nytimes]. He had some masterfull things to say about the role of journalists and how they may not be living up to that now. He died [nytimes] yesterday at the age of 74. [more inside]
Laminated Bananas Really. Watch where you step. [more inside]
Man leaves unusual tip in London restaurant.
the worlds most fantastic Praying Mantis photo This will make you smile, and perhaps dance! [more inside]
Curious George: Save Darfur?
Hi monkey's, long time no see.
I am considering making a donation to the group "Save Darfur," but I'm not sure if I should. I have heard mixed messages of this group and I'm not sure what is true and what is hype.
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April 23, 2007
MoFi Nashvegas Meetup? Any Nashville monkeys out there? [more inside]
Some researchers in England got a grant to put a typewriter into a habitat of six macacques at the Devon Zoo for a month and monitored the results.
I'm sure you're familiar with the old saw "put a thousand monkeys in a room with a typewriter and eventually come up with Shakespeare." It's basically the working model for hiring screenwriters in Hollywood (which explains how ABC came up with that Geico Caveman show idea)
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Tony Judt on the French presidential election. [more inside]
Sheryl Crow Sez: "Limit Your Loo Paper!" which brings us to today's Curious George: The Environment: What are your suggestions for helping the planet? [more inside]
Former Russian President Boris Yeltsin Passes Away at 76
Happy (belated) Birthday, Iggy!
"Thriller," performed by LEGOs. [youtube] Further LEGO music video goodness: short versions of those awesome OK GO videos.
Rewarding mass homicide. Lionel Shriver makes the case in this thought provoking op-ed piece (WaPo-registration possibly required) that we reward mass murderers with our round-the-clock, wall-to-wall coverage of the horrific aftermath to the carnage. In related news, Newt Gingrich blames liberalism. for the shootings. [more inside]
April 22, 2007
Oldest living chimp turns 75 [more inside]
Sale of the century! Goatse.cx is for sale. The bidding is lively. [more inside]
April 21, 2007
The Naval Safety Center's Photo of the Week is a neat bit of whimsy on a military website.
Halo/Metroid Movie Mashup [more inside]
Happy Birthday Rome! Rome is a beautiful city which was raised by wolves. Ancient Romans used vomitoriums and spoke Latin. So what now? Not much has changed, but the clothing is nicer and they all have Vespas. Rome was born on the Aries/Taurus cusp, which means he was bold and strong, a natural leader who enjoyed the sweet life. How very true! [more inside]
April 20, 2007
Curious George: How do you get rid of 20 years of dog/cat urine? [more inside]
Super Monkey Collider Loses Funding Congress voted Monday to cut federal funding for the superconducting monkey collider, a controversial experiment which has cost taxpayers an estimated $7.6 billion a year since its creation in 1983.
Mor Bloons!!
It's Flash. It's Friday. It's Fun.
Why be productive?
Righteous blog post about the sorry state of health insurance in the U.S. "They're in business to take your money then deny your claims."
I'll see your ass in Court. The defendant said his neighbour's ass was loud. That his ass smelled. So, the neighbour hauled his ass into Court, showed his ass to everyone, and proved to the jury that his 300lb ass was indeed well-groomed and under control. [more inside]
April 19, 2007
On Elliott Gould. Born Elliott Goldstein, raised in Bensonhurst (which "was to stand-up comedy as the Mississippi Delta was to country blues"), married to Barbra Streisand (who called him the "American Belmondo"), part of the 60s/70s Hollywood "Jew Wave," Gould made perhaps his most lasting mark in Robert Altman's The Long Goodbye. (No, he didn't die. Does someone have to be dead to be worth talking about?)
Amazing cakes from Russia. Every bit of them is edible, too. Happy drooly Friday!
Scientist says cremation should meet a timely death. Says cremation is environmentally damaging. Suggests being buried in a cardboard box under a tree. Plant you now-dig you later.
April 18, 2007
LolCatBuilder For those who love I Can Has Cheezburger (previously), but haven't yet acquired Photoshop. [via hajen]
Are upcoming U.S. postal rate hikes fair? The new rates, which go into effect on July 15, were developed with no public involvement or congressional oversight, and the increased costs could damage hundreds, even thousands, of smaller publications, forcing many to the brink of bankruptcy. This includes virtually every political journal in the nation. (Shockingly, the new plan was drafted by Time Warner, the largest magazine publisher in the nation. All evidence available, as Robert McChesney explains in an editorial on CommonDreams, suggests the bureaucrats responsible have never considered the implications of their draconian reforms for small and independent publishers.)
Shirker! I love how he's going to work on his own garden instead. Bless.
The Power of the Penis
*Bam!* straight outta the blue, it's a thread about a public access show which has been posted to YouTube and thusly transcribed in-thread.
That's all, but it's enough.
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Little Public Plaques: who knows where they'll turn up?
April 17, 2007
U.S. evangelicals aim to influence European law
Spectacular Times "Larry Law's renowned series of situationist booklets. Probably the easiest to understand introduction to Situationist thought around." [more inside]
Roy Zimmerman YouTubey, satirical-singing goodness, including Dick Cheney, Ted Haggard is Completely Intellectual, and Jerry Falwell's God.
April 16, 2007
A dog and a monkey: BFF. Let the healing light of whimsy shine, even for a second, on a day wrought with horror. (Flash video.)
20 Killed at Virginia Tech Campus Today just got a bit worse. [more inside]
Binoculars
don't always give you the range to look into other people's homes, and you can only visit so many open houses. But NormalRoom.com lets you fulfill your room porn fantasies.
Yes the searching sucks, and hints at more than it offers, but whatcha going to do?
Just like real porn, or so I've heard.
via DT
Clean City - No Outdoor Advertising
Imagine a modern metropolis with no outdoor advertising: no billboards, no flashing neon signs, no electronic panels with messages crawling along the bottom.
Come the new year, this city of 11 million, overwhelmed by what the authorities call visual pollution, plans to press the "delete all" button and offer its residents unimpeded views of their surroundings.
Oh yeah, and the advertisers are angry about it.
Waah.
via boinkboink
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April 15, 2007
The Encyclopedia Titanica has everything you ever wanted to know about the Titanic, including passenger lists with biographies, articles, and archive film footage. Go on, indulge your morbid curiosity.
Free Mumia? On May 17, the 3rd Circuit Court of Appeals will hear oral arguments in the case of internationally renowned black death-row journalist Mumia Abu-Jamal. It will then decide to either grant a new trial, affirm the life sentence, or re-instate the death sentence. Although Mumia's death sentence was overturned in 2001 he remains on death row.
April 14, 2007
Jason kills 160!!! All 160 victims of Jason Voorhees danger youtube
April 13, 2007
Mike Tyson goes Bollywood! No, really.
Boomshine
Friday Flash Fun - click them dots t'blowed 'em up good! (flash, sound)
via Stupid MetaGarbagefilter
Happy Friday the 13th!
Are you superstitious about it? How do you celebrate it? Here in Southern Ontario, tens of thousands of bikers will converge on the tiny Lake Erie beach town of Port Dover, as they do every Friday the 13th, for a traditional day of hard partying that seems to grow bigger every time.
The party may be over in 22 years, however, as Friday April 13, 2029 may be the last...ever.
The two Sumatran orangutans at Zoo Atlanta are playing computer games The orangutans use a touch screen built into a tree-like structure that blend in with their zoo habitat. Visitors watch from a video monitor in front of the exhibit.
Nice Ass! "Why I own donkeys." [more inside]
April 12, 2007
The new U.S. e-passport will incorporate updated security features and a new design. This design will reflect the varied landscapes of our country and each page will include a quote reflecting the hope and success that is the United States of America. C'mon, you know you've got it in you. [more inside]
My First Conk -- Malcolm X describes how to straighten out your nappy-headed fro.
MilitaryVideos.net
The AC-130 gunship video "Do not engage the mosque".
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If I am elected, they will be terrified!... I myself will be terrified. Toyama Koichi's campaign speech for Governor of Tokyo(utube from the blue). More info on the illustrious candidate here.
Jennifer Maestre pencil sculptures via [more inside]
And now, a moment of levity for those of us bummed out about Vonnegut. No, there's nothing funny about it. Now stop laughing.
Birds of War. An exhibition to mark the fourth anniversary of the Iraq invasion. Also, a photo essay (flash, sound) on Iraq four years on.
Kurt Vonnegut: 1922-2007 [more inside]
See the cat? See the cradle? Vonnegut has passed from this earth. [more inside]
Living in Three Centuries A short photo essay related to age... if you ever wake up feeling a bit old, you'll have a new perspective after viewing Mark Story's photography.
Nickelback Recycles
Why write new songs when you can just keep re-releasing the same one?
WARNING: Flash and audio (kind of the point of the post, but just sayin'...) via.
April 11, 2007
Project Linus makes security blankets for kids who are "seriously ill, traumatized, or otherwise in need". Security blankets are a good thing. [more inside]
Wardrobe_Remix flickr group. Real people wearing real clothes. Mostly for the ladies.
Blogs: 'stale and claustrophic'
... sexist and insulting as well ...
so say Jimmy Wales and Tim O'Reilly ...
Discuss:
The Snowsuit Effort documents Detroit's homeless. A condensed flash gallery is here.
Swap Meat - Coudal Partners (excellent site) is holding a swap meat. Send em stuff you make/design and they'll send you something back of equal value. They've gotten some interesting submissions so far. Deadline is May 1st.
April 10, 2007
411, now brought to you by Google Call 'em for free directory information (USA only, currently). You can even have the listing texted to your mobile phone when you're done.
The Dry Valleys of Antarctica
Amazing pictures of some places you didn't know existed.*
The terrain looks like something not of this Earth; the valley floor occasionally contains a perennially frozen lake with ice several meters thick. Under the ice, in the extremely salty water live mysterious simple organisms, a subject of on-going research.
Indulge in a little armchair touring and see fantastic minimalistic landscapes of rock and ice!
*Offer does not apply if you knew this place existed
Whistle Tips - Get yours today (youtube)
10 Things your Restaurant won't tell you.
How can you tell a good special from a bad one? Watch out for "an expensive item used in a way that's minimizing its flavor," Zagor says, such as a lamb chop that's been cut, braised and put into a dish where it's a supporting player. Pastas, stews and soups containing expensive meats are also suspect.
Also don't go out on Mondays.
Still-unexplained tiles may or may not have an important message. These are nothing new but apparently are still appearing with some regularity. At any rate, Pennsylvania certainly has its share. [more inside]
No Statue for You Samantha won't show Serbia her boobs, so now they won't raise a statue in her honour.
Fags eat poop?
The still living Fred Phelps, meets the rather lovely Brit Louis Theroux.
pt1/7 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S2fUyJQgRuM
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April 09, 2007
60 years ago, Jackie Robinson broke baseball's color barrier. He was Hank Aaron's hero. What would he have thought about today's game? Why is Garret Anderson of the Anaheim Angels refusing to join others in baseball in honoring Robinson?
Outlaws and Highwaymen Nice set of quotes and texts about English robbers, designed to accompany a book but much more than just puff.
Curious George -
One of my favorite bookmarks is the Chicago police prostitution patron arrest photos - I usually check it once a week. The mugshots crack me up.
Last week I look at the site...What... Hey! I know that guy!... Yep, one of the guys busted for solicitation.... I know him. The thing is... he's a regular customer of mine. Once a week he stops by the shop and buys some antiques.
I have yet to see him since I found his pic on the site. The question is... Do I say anything to him about it? He just called me and said he's coming in this wednesday. I'm know going to have a hard time keeping a straight face when he walks in the door.
Girl, You'll Be A Woman, Soon
Scans from a 1950's(?) era book on how and why to be a woman. Written by a man, of course. A doctor.
via MetaGirlyfilter
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Violinist Joshua Bell gives a free concert, playing some of the most exquisite music created by man, and is rewarded with thunderous...apathy. This is just sad. [more inside]
Breeder believes big bunnies boiled for Birthday bash
A collection of Gasoline Alley's Autumn Walks. I guess it Sunday funnies Sunday.
Cartoonist Johnny Hart died on Saturday, at home, at his storyboard.
Best known for B.C., he was also co-creator of Wizard of Id.
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April 08, 2007
Go for a ride on the Real Estate Roller Coaster. A century of inflation-adjusted U.S. real-estate prices presented as a real life roller coaster ride. ... wherein you will discover, there is something decidedly odd about the last few years....
Your favorite film? I'm looking for awesome films that I may not have seen before. I've seen the tired old AFI Top 100, and IMDB favorites are probably a bit too mainstream. What do you say? What are some of your personal favorites? New ones, oldies, indies, whatever are fine it's all good as long as it's English or English-subtitled.
Chuck Shepherd has just published his News of The Weird weekly column Number One Thousand. That is almost 20 years of weirdness! [more inside]
Polish witch hunt. "Under the law, which was passed last October and entered into force on 15 March this year, 700,000 Poles are required to confess any collaboration with the communists between 1945 and 1989. All senior civil servants, university professors, lawyers, headmasters and journalists born before 1972 must now confess their past sins by 15 May."
April 07, 2007
Joshua Bell as street musician. The Washington Post sets up a social experiment whereby the famous virtuoso performs anonymously for spare change at a DC metro stop. What happens? Tune in for the exciting conclusion! [more inside]
Peter Bagge tells us about bums.
Spenser and the Tradition : English Poetry 1579-1830 (via).A bloody enormous database of poetry and criticism charting the influence of Edmund Spenser on the English poetic tradition. [more inside]
The Outsider Diaries. Piers Morgan is the former editor of the UK's Daily Mirror, sacked for publishing fake photos of Iraqis being abused by British troops. Some might know him as the America's Got Talent judge that made a twelve year old boy cry. [more inside]
MONKEYS!! We have monkeys. We have bananas. We have ten minutes to waste.
April 06, 2007
Curious George: les ordibqteurs portqvles eb Frqbxe (French laptops) [more inside]
Miami sex offenders living under bridge. "They've often said that some of the laws will force people to live under a bridge," said Charles Onley, a research associate at the federally funded Center for Sex Offender Management. "This is probably the first story that I've seen that confirms that."
I hurt myself today... It's not easy being green. Also, audio.
Alan Moore on pornography
Just to recap, then, sexually progressive cultures gave us mathematics, literature, philosophy, civilization and the rest, while sexually restrictive cultures gave us the Dark Ages and the Holocaust.
(via monkeyfilter...)
Thank ' Eas'r Bunny! Bawk! Bawk! Yeah, I know, a stupid one-link YouTube post. To an old commercial, even. You may fiah when ready.
"Wake me up at" stickers. Although considered by many a breach of etiquette (via), help is at hand for those who fall asleep on the tube. [more inside]
April 05, 2007
The MLK Jr. you don't see on TV.
It's become a TV ritual: Every year on April 4, as Americans commemorate Martin Luther King's death, we get perfunctory network news reports about "the slain civil rights leader." The remarkable thing about these reviews of King's life is that several years - his last years - are totally missing, as if flushed down a memory hole.
Hedonic Adaptation says that we are made happy by getting stuff and then we "go back" to regular old whatever. (See Hedonic treadmill) So if we know what happiness is (let's just say it's 'a joyful, contented life'), then how do we stay happy? Y'know who might know? the Amish. [more inside]
Twenty-four hours a day, seven days a week, the chimneys pump out a toxic cocktail of pollutants... Welcome to Norilsk: Home to the world's biggest nickel and palladium producer, and producer of one seventh of all the factory pollution in Russia. [more inside]
April 04, 2007
Curious George: Person Search Have any of you used any online people search services? [more inside]
If We Taught English the Way We Teach Mathematics... Excuse me, but I think that foreign-language teaching often takes the form described. [more inside]
Bloons! We haven't had a game here for a while. This even has a monkey in it. And what's better, it's made in New Zealand! Fifty levels of balloon popping fun. (Flash) [more inside]
Left Behind? Not this book series. Before the first installment in Tim LaHaye's and Jerry B. Jenkins' modern-day stories based on the Book of Revelation appeared in 1995, Christian fiction was typically tucked away in Christian bookstores. Now, 43 million books later, the Left Behind titles have paved the way for these books and others like them to be sold in chain outlets, discount stores and big box retailers.
Curious George - Best iTunes Companion Programs?
I am specifically looking for a os x program than will let me edit my playlists with more ease that with iTunes (global edits, etc.) but was also wondering if anybody has any neat suggestions to make our iTunes and iPod lives any easier. I did a search on mofi and it appears that this topic hasn't been covered here, but if I missed anything, my appy-polo-logies.
Any cool iPod/iTunes helper/companion program suggestions?
And since this question is posed for all of the monkeys out there, you might as well list both mac as well as windows options.
This article which briefly analyzes the concept of Nirvana from a psych standpoint, is a fascinating read. [more inside]
The atheist's nightmare: the banana
The archive of golden age romance comics
Free Land for the Taking ... in Anderson, Alaska. An interesting plan to increase economic development, devised by the local high school students (all 16 of 'em).
April 03, 2007
No bananas within 100 mile radius! [more inside]
OMFG... "I snorted my father."
Swedish couple fights to name their daughter "Metallica".
"It suits her," Karolina Tomaro, 27, said Tuesday of the name. "She's decisive and she knows what she wants."
"Louie Louie" Turns 50
The gold standard of garage rock has a storied and illustrious past, but can you sing all the words?
thanks to j-walkblog for the inspiration
"You are who you pretend to be." Or, the gentle art of selling yourself. A nice, gratifyingly short article from the Guardian on self-invention and the process of becoming who you wish you were.
iGod repenting made easy
iGod repenting made easy
April 02, 2007
Health Newsfilter: Universal Blood
Newly discovered enzymes may potentially enable blood from groups A, B and AB to be converted into group O negative, which can be safely transplanted into any patient.
The method may enable manufacture of universal red cells, which would substantially reduce pressure on the blood supply.
Curious, George: Your favorite media player sucks.
Okay, so I got a problem. Windows Media Player is creating folders on my USB drive.
"What's this," you gasp? "Yes," I reply!
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Zooming down into the mandelbrot set forever and ever (youtube video)
April 01, 2007
Deep fried goldfish. Never before have our little fishy friends been so grateful for the powers of convection.
Trailer Club 70. Trailers of strange films from the seventies and beyond
Gay man in 'bashing the bishop" suit The Bishop of Hereford is being taken to an industrial tribunal by a man who claims he was refused a job as a youth worker because he is gay.
Curious George: Are there any graphically creative folks out there in the monkeynet who know where online I can find a font that looks like a wood carving? Hm?
