Bendy keyboard. If you like your instruments flexible you may well like the Hand Roll Piano. It's a battery operated roll-up keyboard with 100 sounds and a built in speaker. Crazy music fun Japanese style! [via]

Ghost stories Ghost stories haunt the moonlit backroads of the American South. Their roots in Southern culture and folklore are deep. more inside

Six-wheeled Supercar "4 steering front wheels permit to increase braking, comfort and directional stability." Plus, it looks like something out of the Thunderbirds.

How do we clean our skulls? Kinda squeamy - but then again, the one and only time the sentence "A gorilla skull halfway bugged" will be used in all of human history.

Rummy, Bush and Cheney in NYC, awaiting the RNC (9.3mb QT, Audio NSFW, with mild crotch-grabbing. Super-gratuitous, QT-level use of a Caucasian using the N-word. First FFP. Hope it doesn't offend...)

Anal seepage (ah no).
NSFW (surprise!)

Anne Frank fanfic. Fiction, haiku, poetry, nazis. Submit your own! But be very very quiet...

spreading gangrene from within "Imitate me, midlevel executives, white-collar workers, neo-slaves, the damned of the tertiary sector," Ms. Maier calls in her slim volume, which is quickly becoming a national best seller. She argues that France's ossified corporate culture no longer offers rank-and-file employees the prospect of success, so, "Why not spread gangrene through the system from inside?"

Cancer Stem Cells Hint at Cure.

Age Gauge: People/History - Music - TV - Movies (enter birthday as M/D/YY)

Not a fork! A banana request. Monkeys, the eagle-eyed among you have come note that beeswackybashi has been assembling a rarely-seen literary endeavor under cover of the One True 'Bashi Thread. Such is the genius that I request a new feature. more inside

Curious George: How do you research old news stories? Do any fellow monkeys know of any site that archives or scans 20 or 30 years worth of major national news stories from AP/UPI/Reuters or major newspapers? Yes, I will likely pay a visit my city newspaper, but I'd be happy to pony up a little cash for instant gratification. I see the Houston Chronicle might be one possibility but it only goes back 19 years.

She Lost Her Job She bitches about co-workers on her weblog. She shows her weblog to her employer. She loses her job for her bitching. She whines about having lost her job. more inside

One Got Fat

Spear's Specialty Shoe Company has been a forerunner of manufacturing and style-setting clown shoes worldwide! more inside

SLAM BUSH
Spit something hot kid! Good idea; wish the guy in the video could rap. How would YOUR one minute of battle go? (Bees, I'm lookin at YOU...) more inside

This site is a priceless resource for all interested in the semiotics of fried chicken sales. And in the study of manky take-aways riddled with salmonella and rat faeces.

The Politics of Burning Man. A conversation between Burning Man founder Larry Harvey and John Perry Barlow. [Via WorldChanging.]

Curious George: Hardware Gone Wild I lost the C: drive, it was replaced, now the computer won't recognize the D: drive anymore. Well, sometimes it does. more inside

Yet another goof up by Google. Our favorite search engine company goofs up by not registering Gmail, their much sought-after email service. more inside