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The Alcoholic Monkeys of St. Kitts exhibit "skeedrow behavior." Alex Shoumatoff takes you there.

Rest Stop, Stephen King's latest story, available online. Here too is the transcript of King's National Book Foundation's Distinguished Contribution award acceptance speech. That's more directly related to this ancient thread.

Researchers Discover New Source of Neural Stem Cells. Of special interest to monkey lovers: "the differences we see imply that this region in the human brain doesn't necessarily do the same things as its primate and rodent counterparts." Maybe.

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New Noise. A new fortnightly web based music magazine, currently on its second issue. more inside

Black Hole Sun, Won't You Come... Black hole destroys star The pictures are just illustrations, but fairly cool nonetheless

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You're Totally Soaking In It Most of us who aren't rich have to do some goofy things in order to feed ourselves, provide clothing and shelter to loved ones, and generally sustain live so that we can do the things that we really love (make art, post links, expand minds). Jan Miner, aka Madge the Manicurist, was a serious actress. She figured out how to do what she wanted and still eat three square meals a day. Let's all think back to our own "you're soaking in it" moments, have some lunch, and endeavor to be half as successful and Jan Miner.

Mouse Swallows Frog: Disney Acquires Muppets. And that's not the only Muppet-based news these days: How about a muppet version of Dr. Phil? And on tonight's episode of "Angel", the remorseful vampire is turned into a muppet-esque puppet. And then, there's this photo here (NSFWWSOH - Not Safe For Workplace Without Sense Of Humor)

Torturing Monkeys in the name of Security "When F-Secure's antivirus researcher Katrin Tocheva first spotted the MyDoom virus late in the evening of Jan. 27, she immediately reached out and smacked the monkey that sits near her desk."

Primal Humans Cut Off From Civilization. Father admits to "failures".

Te Whiti and Parihaka. Before Gandhi and Martin Luther King, there was Te Whiti; a spellbinding public speaker who persuaded Taranaki Maori that their best remedy to growing dissatisfaction with the British settlement of New Zealand was not traditional warfare, but non-violent resistence.

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Donald Rumsfeld Fighting Technique I didn't know Rummy was a martial arts master.

The Many Treasures of the Kunsthistorisches Museum Vienna include an extensive gallery of paintings, as well as objects from antiquity, state carriages, and court uniforms. This is a huge website, the cream of which is found under "Collections".

Fresh monkey meat Curious George: We've seen something like a hundred new monkeys sign on this week

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The cheeky monkey in this Japanese nature video is my vote for our new mascot. This goes on for a LONG time. /via birivets who astutely notes, "I wonder what is really going on here - the music and sound effects make it all sound harmless fun, but who can tell."