Bushisms In all fairness to the Scrub, he is not nearly as bad as Dan Quayle. That man could sap the brain power right out of a room.

Interesting and fun coincidences

See the sun as it appears in ultraviolet images from the SOHO satellite. Pretty! Requires flash.

Got a hankering for monkey items? Find them at Monkey Goods, "A Real Monkey Business" with tons o' monkey stuff! Perhaps all us MoFites should get the plush monkey slippers!

1890s Break Dancing From America's Story, a site by the Library of Congress which has some great content (so long as you don't mind being talked down to slightly).

They Know Not What They Do MetaFilter has an interesting thread that discusses this article titled "They Know Not What They Do: The Passion as Roman Sacrifice". Somewhere in the thread, someone calls for comments from someone with a background in religious studies. more inside

Curious George: City Monkey - Country Monkey. What criteria do people around where you live use to determine if you are in/from the city or the country? more inside

Did dishes cause the fall of the Roman Empire? Throughout history, people have been affected not only by what they eat, but what they eat from. While Romans and Beethoven may have been affected by lead poisoning from their dishes, some claim colloidal silver, which causes argyria in large quantities, saved the aristocracy when bubonic plague hit Europe. With all the problems even from more recent times, you'd think we'd have learned our lesson. Unfortunately, even today, we still need to worry about both our food and the plates we put it on.

Shocked The online games and 'fun stuff' website Shockwave.com asked back in 1999 "South Park" creators Matt Stone and Trey Parker to make something for their site. No limits. So they made Princess an X-rated cartoon. Princess was a bit too extreme for Shockwave.com. Well, actually very much so. So it was never available online. Until now. Here is a short documentary about the process of making Princess. And here you can find the first two episodes of Princess. Very much NSFW.

March Madness NCAA Tournament Brackets are out. March is my favorite month for competition

The definitive source for Visual, Concrete + Sound Poetry. Ubuweb, explore and stuff.

Metafilter posts are dropping, being the lowest since August 2001. Nevertheless, Matt is still sanguine. And to be fair, they were down for a sizeable portion last month. Do blogs experience "life cycles" of birth, youth, maturity and death, as Oswald Spengler said of cultures? More importantly, is Monkeyfilter just a simian knockoff, or heir apparent? Just askin'.

Sound Numbers via BIRIV, natch.

Blue Wizard Is About To Die. The first collection of poetry about video games ever published, Blue Wizard Is About To Die takes its readers on a psychotic and hilarious tour through the arcade and console games of the Eighties (and beyond). Three poems are available on line: Mario in Exile, Joust, and Dragon's Lair. more inside

Curious, George: This post on MeFi, and the erm - spirited - discussion of spirits that seems to be beginning left me wondering what the monkeys out here go for on a night out, or, for that matter on a night in. more inside

Ben Affleck In Rolling Stone Affleck says he doesn't know why their union caused such a hostile reaction. "Hopefully I can get far enough away from it in time to be able to get a better sense of it," he says, although he suspects the hostility "had something to do with race and class. That pushed a button. This is a country that flew into a gigantic uproar about Janet Jackson's breast. There's still a heavy-duty puritan influence going on, and we still hold ourselves to a pretty chaste ideal, which includes, buried within it, the tradition of people being with people like them. We were thought of as two different kinds of people, not just racially but culturally." Perhaps that's why the tabloids have gone easier on Lopez dating singer Marc Anthony. Affleck lights another of his menthol Marlboro Lights. "Basically, it just came down to, 'Wow, I never thought those two would get together.'"

Coming to a sex club near you! Here's your chance get to know Bessy better without risking an embarrassing trial: the Bovine Rectal Palpation Simulator Project.

Visit the zoo to see some wonderfull creatures like this Caracalgirl. Or, you could write to Adobe and demand they start vetting people before they use Photoshop.

A Setback for the Autonomous Killer Robots. For complete details, check out the official DARPA Grand Challenge website. If I had to root for a self-directed murderous robot machine, I'd cheer for the NaviGATOR, from my hometown of Gainesville, Florida. ("I used to pass that autonomous mechanical death system every day on my way to class!")

Matt Sesow, one-armed artist extraordinaire.