AIDS in India: South Asia's smoldering threat. First of a Five-Part Series.

Flash Fiction Each story, whether traditional or experimental, proves that a tale told quickly offers pleasure long past its telling. This is serious fiction that's fun to read. more inside

The number one hit for a Google Image Search for the word "monkey" is...

A Wordwork in Progress: Here's a sample from The Oxford English Dictionary in Limerick Form, more inside

I created my own reality by walking out of the theater I was roped in by my girlfriend into going to this dreck with her mom. We (my g-friend and I) walked out about an hour into it. What a load of pseudo scientific new age jargon. more inside

Ben Samuels Classic Golden Age Comic Book Cover Gallery

No matter who won, there would be a party somewhere in Toronto Congratulations to Greece, and party on, Danforth!

Star-Spangled Drinking Song. Did you know the melody of the US national anthem comes from an old booze tune?

Star Trek Star diagnosed with Alzheimer's disease - 84 year old James Doohan, legendary actor who portrayed Scotty on the original Star Trek, and a World War II veteran, has been diagnosed with Alzheimer's disease. All of our old icons, the most recogniseable marks on our psychological landscape, are slowly fading away.

All Hail Kobayashi, the Hot Dog King! 53½ wieners in 12 minutes... a world record. Let's see Turkmenbashi do something like that! more inside

The Royal We This is old, but interesting:

The mathematics of our ancestry is exceedingly complex, because the number of our ancestors increases exponentially, not linearly. These numbers are manageable in the first few generations—two parents, four grandparents, eight great-grandparents, sixteen great-great-grandparents—but they quickly spiral out of control. Go back forty generations, or about a thousand years, and each of us theoretically has more than a trillion direct ancestors—a figure that far exceeds the total number of human beings who have ever lived.

The journalist speaks to a couple of people who have the answer to the conundrum.

F IREWORKS!! Happy 4th of July Monkeys!

Binaural Beats are pretty cool. Some people are all about them. I can't help but wonder if they could be made to be less benign. Try some here.

Fast Mozilla How to make Mozilla as fast as Opera. more inside

I love you. How to say it in many languages. more inside

Bye Bye Miss American Pie Just thought I'd share one of my favorite songs with my fellow monkeys.

Stripperella - the game! It's like Donkey Kong with breast implants.. [possibly NSFW]

Dog toy or marital aid? Do you use it with your dog or elsewhere? Is this SFW or NSFW? If they're so difficult to distinguish, would it be wrong to use one in place of the other? Would your dog know? Would your lover? Would it be wrong to sell both from the same shops? If it looks like a duck, sounds like a duck, and is owned by Carmen Miranda like a duck, is it a duck, o< quack? more inside

Rules of Civility & Decent Behaviour In Company and Conversation.

Tranquility Base. (15MB Quicktime Movie) Goats, Llamas, Sheep, a dog, and some trance music. Perfect hangover viewing. more inside