Walter Newton's comics and illustrations are worth a peek. more inside

WELCOME TO THE MONKEYHOUSE: NYC MONKEY SUPERBOWL PARTY!
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Parking Artist is another gallery of bad parking skills. (In German, but no matter) See also the gallery index and Artist of the Month.

Ground level election news from the people of Iraq more inside

American Journeys contains more than 18,000 pages of eyewitness accounts of North American exploration, from the sagas of Vikings in Canada in AD1000 to the diaries of mountain men in the Rockies 800 years later.

Symphonic House

Futurotica: Bored art student modifies everyday appliances in order to [Amplify] the ubiquitous and untapped mastarbatory fantasies found in everyday, off the shelf domestic items, as forms of technology that our bodies can relate to and interact with in unusual ways.

2004: The year in photographs as captured through the lenses of US Army photographers.

Regicide. On this day in 1649, the death warrant of Charles Stuart, King of England, Scotland and Ireland was served on a scaffold hastily erected in Whitehall. The event shook Europe and had profound constituional implications that were crucial in defining the polity of successive governments throughout the English-speaking world. For some Charles was to become a martyr, others have remembered the event with less reverence.

Trivial George Monkeys...if you've always thought you could pwn Alex Trabeck, now's your chance: Jeopardy! is taking names for contestant searches in Chicago, Houston, Madison, New York, Phoenix, Tampa, and Toronto. (Posted 'cos I always forget to see if I can sign up, so I would have appreciated a heads-up in years past...)

Surf Movie Posters

Former Minister HIV positive Chris Smith, the UK's Secretary of State for Culture from 1997 to 2001, and the country's first openly gay minister, tells the Sunday Times today that he has been HIV+ for seventeen years. It seems a very welcome openness, but how will it go down? What if it was a ex/minister from your country? Is it time for positive status to be, forgive me, rebranded?

Darwin@Home Planetwide effort to create life within networked digital ecosystems. [Via the ever awesome Reality Carnival]

Paul Newman For Senate In 2006 According to Atrios, Newman is gunning for Joe Lieberman's seat. I say good. I am not a Lieberman fan. more inside

Man peed way out of avalanche. "It was hard and now my kidneys and liver hurt." That's awfully articulate for someone who just drank 30 liters of beer.

The Abston Church of Christ is like none other. Here be proof that cats like Jesus.

It's everywhere, it's everywhere

How a bill becomes a law

#mofirc weekend party! Old-school IRC chat action. more inside

Science alert! Do your part in a scientific experiment that harnesses the power of hundreds of thousands of Internet-connected computers in the search for giant ape-like creatures. It’s yeti@home!