"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

Prostitution

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.

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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". more inside

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

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. more inside

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. more inside

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.