Earl M. Washington prints have been showing up at auction houses all over the country. more inside

Light a candle for those you care about. 1,725 candles from 51 countries are now lit. Maybe there are some monkeys who would like to light a cyber candle. more inside

Guided By Voices Live At Coney Island 2001 This an excellent video bootleg (which GBV linked to their site) of Guided By Voices at the Siren Festival in 2001. The videos are MPEGs and linked to the webpage I linked. more inside

Subversive coss stitch

Feeling the Sunday morning fool? It could be worse. You could be a student of Harvard

curious george. life of the party Is your pet begining to get more social action than you are? Is it becoming a scenster as you slowly patter down the ladder of insignificance? more inside

A Little Perspective on $191 billion for Bush - One dollar is roughly 6 inches long, and 2.5 inches wide. It's about as thick as a regular piece of paper. Now imagine a stack of dollars 500 feet long, 100 feet tall, and 125 feet wide.

They bought my name for the movies! Steve Zissou's alter ego might be a deep water explorer, but most of the time, you can find the real guy in Queens. [via] more inside

Curious George: Everyone else is doing it, so why can't we? Is anyone else up for "The Best of Mofi"? more inside

Be sure to vote! Our ol' Monkeyfilter is on the ballot in the category for Best Online Community. Get your vote in... the polls close on Sunday, December 12!

Amorous George How do you react when you're in some degree of love? I mean besides the standard lust. more inside

It's Just a Plant: a children's story of marijuana When little Jackie finds her parents smoking weed, she begins her adventure of discovery and learning...

Followup, George: I got my cats today! more inside

Curious George: Tax writeoff?? It seems like every month I hear someone use that timeless phrase, "Yeah, I guess I'll buy it. I'll just write it off on my taxes." I have a question about this. more inside

Leonard Nimoy Music Video The video is in quicktime.

Google Suggest Beta This is just too cool not to post. Start typing a search and Google will begin to narrow it down for you, along with telling how many search results it would give. more inside

"There is no doubt about the fact that the disease has been caused by a case of poisoning by dioxin," Following on from this post, it turns out that Victor Yushchenko was poisoned before Ukraine's general election. Check out the BBC's before and after photographs, and timeline, as the Chestnut Revolution continues. Of course, we'll need a theme tune (mp3), and shadowy help from the US. This, my monkey chums, is a proper election.

Tim Burton's Charlie & the Chocolate Factory - teaser - Our first look, I guess. I don't see how anybody could do better than Gene Wilder's manic, slightly disturbing performance as Wonka, but Burton certainly has the sensibilities to do more justice to the story. I suppose one can't have the best of both worlds. But this actually looks.. intriguing. Via Boing Boing more inside

Vodka Pipeline running from Belarussia to Lithuania uncovered. The thin three kilometere long plastic pipe, buried a few centimeters underground, ran under several roads, along a riverbed and ended next to the home of a Lithuanian citizen.

Museum of Soviet Synths. Some of these are pretty innovative like the "synth squeezebox" but I think most of these are just knock-offs of US synths. via nerdfilter