Greenpeace prosecuted under 132-year old law. Your meme for today: "sailor mongering".

Just Say No (to Flies) The effects of various drugs on spiders. It may make you rethink drinking the caffeine laden coffee.

Whispering keyboards. No need to get completely paranoid but did you know that eavesdroppers could be reading every word that you type into your computer simply by listening to the sounds of your keystrokes? Every key on your keyboard emits a unique sound and a computer with a microphone and some neural network software could be set up to recognise it and record it with an accuracy of 80%. This issue also applies to keypads on door locks, ATM machines and telephones. more inside

What the hell? Mmmm. Viewpoints. more inside

Tontie will steal your free time, your patience and your soul. So much for Friday productivity.

I guess they're finally getting even with us for that "pee-pee in your Coke" punchline

Customers who bought Owl Puke also bought... One person's list of the weirdest items you can buy from Amazon. While some verge on the mundane, I'm forced to admit that A Lobster, Natural Skunk Scent and Mr Poopy the Octopus are fabulous... more inside

The Shining in 30 Seconds. You've seen The Exorcist in 30 Seconds, performed by bunnies. Well, here's Johnny! Via ABS.

Strong stomach? Then join a surgeon and perform a total knee replacement on a (flash) patient.

To ban or not to ban the cucumber From the land of the free and the home of the brave, of course.

Last July, an 83-year-old grandmother called Loretta Harrison visited her local library in Marion County, Florida. A brightly covered book with a funny title caught her attention. After reading just a few pages, she filed an objection with the library that the book was "to [sic] obsene [sic] for general reading".

Library politics, state politics, sex, scandal, farce. A great read!

Curious George I'm having some problems with customs charges that i don't want to pay. I bought an item on ebay and it had to cross the boarder into Canada. Anyone know any loopholes on how I can get out of this? more inside

"Elves and fairies are usually considered to be part of our folkloric and literary heritage, not creatures we might actually meet. MOYRA DOORLY certainly thought so until, living on a Scottish Island, she had a series of unnerving encounters with the Little People." [Via Disinformation.] more inside

Bad Scrabble: "The following pages are real, unmanipulated examples of Scrabble-tile-chooosing ineptitude, hands so mind-bogglingly unfair in their horribleness that pictures just had to be taken."

Kurt Vonnegut: Cold Turkey Here dude, take a hit of that beautiful sweet rolling cynicism that only the Kurtster can dish. Come for the rant, stay for the song. /Wolof more inside

Weird Animal News Roundup - No monkeys, but news of a man bitten to death by a sexually aroused horse, the sad but inevitable death of the world's fattest raccoon, the cutest vicious guard cat in the UK that ever prompted the Royal Mail to ask its owners to get a proper letter box, and a turkey who tried to kill an SUV. I sense a pattern emerging. more inside

MonkeyView photo server. Just a bunch of other people's photos. Even more fun than random google images, if you're into that sort of thing.

MonkeyView photo server. Just a bunch of other people's photos. Even more fun than random google images, if you're into that sort of thing.

iruses share a common ancestor that existed over 3 billion years ago and may even have even preceded cellular forms of life. Researchers at Montana State University have come to this conclusion after comparing the protein coating of an exotic virus strain, recently isolated from a hot spring at Yellowstone National Park, with a range of vastly different virus types. Unlike most viruses, this new virus doesn't reproduce by infecting living cells but through a chemical reaction and yet it has been found to share a common protein structure with the other viruses. Furthermore, these proteins have shown no significant similarities with the proteins of living cells and this suggests that viruses must have split of from other forms off life very early on. There are even wilder possibilities: that viruses may have preceded cellular life on Earth or even arrived here from outer space.

Murray the Kick Ass Monkey, A little Friday flash fun...monkeyfied! /via milkandcookies.com

Yippee! Through the miracle of the Internet, we can now download the unforgettable, Avant Guarde music of "The Monkees" more inside