Curious George: The Kettle. Do you give? The Salvation Army has begun its annual Christmas kettle fundraising drive across the US. Some gay-rights advocates protest the organization for their refusal to grant benefits to same-sex partners. (Others, with presumably less political motivations, have more direct methods.) more inside

We all need some compensation

Top 1000 OCLC Research has compiled a list of the top 1000 titles owned by member libraries -- the intellectual works that have been judged to be worth owning by the

The Fridge (via here, and previously mentioned here) is an on-line version of Magnetic Letters (without the collaborative interference). What I like about it is the ability to import text from a webpage to create your own word set. Here's what I did with the MonkeyFilter 'Recent Comments' sidebar.

Glencannon A wee smattering of Guy Gilpatric

Curious George's Mom: Do any monkeys have experience with chronic lymphocytic leukemia, also known as CLL? Just found out my mom has it. She's asymptomatic now, it was detected early in a routine blood test. So we're optimistic.

A little alpha male, in-your-face, shamelessly good, toxic marketing. Check this site out. The Flash application is hypnotic, the animation wonderful, and the colors? I want to eat them. Wonder if I can hire these guys to animate my Uncle Leon--he's been dead for years. more inside

I can't stop laughing at this.

The O'Canada Factor Since today Canadians can watch Fox News too. Bill O'Reilly of The O'Reilly Factor, as a special treat to his newly found Canadian audience, devotes his entire show to Canada and even interviews himself. "Here at The Factor, we've talked about boycotting Canada in the past. Think this is an empty threat? Ask France. Face it; Canada is utterly dependent on America for its economic well being. Last time I checked, Americans make 40 million visits to Canada a year. We spend upwards of $10 billion and this doesn't even include all the hidden taxes those communists levy on us as we're leaving their land of igloos and left-wing defeatism." Read the transcript. [registration required. use regfree@fastchevy.com/regfree]

De-romancing the stone. Mark Vadon of Blue Nile wants to turn diamonds into pork bellies. Tiffany's hates him. more inside

Koders - Source Code Search Engine - So instead of posting something about ghosts, weird animals or supernatural dreams, I decided to post this script search engine. I don't use this stuff, but I'm sure some Monkeys do. This could save hours working out problems & be very useful. It allows devs to easily search & browse source code in thousands of projects hosted at hundreds of open source repositories. more inside

Drainspotting

Ripoff Reports. Use a search query for your hometown and see which companies have complaints stacked up against them. Pretty neat consumer advocacy site, especially for those unfortunates who have a pro-biz local BBB that sucks.

True? True !

Bullfrogs ate my Budgie... Earwigs, f'n Zebra mussels, 'new' LadyBugs, those friggin' walking fish from Michigan, and now Giant Killer Bullfrogs ?! When will the UN DO SOMETHING ABOUT THESE ROGUES ?! Commisioner Gordon, get me Paul Martin and Bono on line one!

What's first on my Christmas wish list?

Um...George, XYZ....

<b>Delerious George</b>...songs that make it summer ...making a cd for a bar my friends run. So, I need song titles that make you think it's summer, no matter what's going on outside the window, and your ass make like two two bobcats in a sack. Butt-shaking sunshine music! Yaaaay! Cheese is fine! Dirrrrty's good! So far, from my stash, I got; Elephant Man - "Jook Gal" Crazy Town - "Butterfly" Skee-Lo - "The Burger Song" Len - "Steal My Sunshine" Pittbull with Lil Jon -"Culo" but I want to mix it up a bit, so whatever ass-shake-style, sun-style you got, whatever genre, bring it on...

Curious George: Elections amid Terror I'm curious why the administration is so gung-ho for the Iraq elections amid the increasing (uncontrolled?) terror and war. While here in the U.S., there was talk of delaying the elections at the mere rumor of a terror attack.

Joe Cartoon shows how to spank a monkey I had been a while since I had seen this, so I watched it again and promptly shot Coke through my nose all over my keyboard. If you aren't familiar with Joe Cartoon, you should go check this out, as well as the Gerbil and Supahfly cartoons. I can't get it to link to specific cartoons, so you'll have to select the orange dot marked CARTOONS to get the menu. (Select the dot above SITE MAP to be called out very specifically.) Not remotely safe for work, PETA, those easily offended, with adversion to Flash cartoons, normally hidden body parts, splattered gore, coarse language, or lacking a sophomoric and/or twisted sense of humor.