Meet Thumbelina, the world's smallest horse

15 more minutes for the Beamer family. For those of you who missed Larry King Live on the nights of September 12, 13, 14, 15, 2001 through a week ago last Wednesday, Todd Beamer, all evidence would show, was a hero who helped down Flight 93 instead of letting the jet crash into Dick Cheney. Oh...wait... No, no, hero he is. But now, his dad is reminding us all of the undeniable link between the hijackers of that flight and the war in Iraq. Stand and salute, you patriot, you. GooTube Video, stolen from MeFi

Curious Bread Making George Hey you monkeys, do any of you have a breadmaker? Does it make good bread? Real GOOOOOOOD bread. I love fresh baked bread and I've been getting mine from the local superstore baker. But I can't help but wonder are those breadmakers worth it? Does breadmaker bread beat the baker's bread? Or is it just another kitchen gizmo that'll gather dust in a couple of months?

Curious George: ISO SFU Looking for the Six Feet Under theme ringtone. more inside

Happy Birthday Thelonious Monk Happy Birthday to a jazz legend, a musical genius, and all around hep cat. Listen to some tunes, watch Straight, No Chaser and appreciate the momentary dancing note that was Thelonious Monk. As usual, via the Blue(s) more inside

Live vicariously in the now, Canada. What's in a month?

What's my name SIR! A U.S. Marine Sergeant is auctioning off naming rights for himself, to help orphans. Oddly, GoldenPalace.com not yet on list.

Curious George: What happens in this poem? Literary minded monkeys, help me interpret the text of a French song I'm performing at the end of October. On one level it's kind of obvious, but I've got a lot of unanswered questions. Come inside, read the thing and help me out, won't you? more inside

Old Superstitions more inside

... Just Us, We Caught The Bus: "None suspect that idealistic committed little folk-singer Bob Dylan is in fact the amazing Zimmerman -- faster than a proxy ballot, more powerful than an ulterior motive, and able to buy tall buildings with a single bond!" [More inside] more inside

A nifty little site on writing and typography. (Via Metachat.)

Planet enters 'ecological debt' [newsfilterish] The demands of humanity upon the planet have finally reached the tipping point in our headlong race to kill the planet before we kill eachother.

Poohsticks As a fan of A.A. Milne's Pooh books I thought I would share my 2 year old daughter and I's favorite game. A wonderful way to spend a Sunday afternoon. more inside

Children's Letters To God "Dear God, I am Amareican, what are you?" "Dear God, I think the stapler is one of your greatest invention" "Dear God, if you let the dinasor not exstinct we would not have a country. You didthe right thing." via more inside

Ka-boom more inside

Youtube analysis of David Bowie's teeth. And another sexy youtube link with one of his best early songs. more inside

Unlocking the Mysteries of Svchost.exe If you are using Windows XP, Svchost.exe launches at startup and usually runs several instances of itself, which you can see by accessing task manager (by pressing Ctrl+Alt+Del). What is it? What is it doing? Do you need it running? Here is some information on it.

Journey to a Black Hole

The Pinky Show explains the war in Vietnam for the young & the young at heart. WARNING: This page contains an embedded Quicktime 7 movie approx. 42 megs in size, but I guarantee that it is worth it & you will enjoy watching it since it is an interesting history lesson explained by two cartoon cats with ky00t voices. Unless such things do not interest you. In which case.. why are you here? more inside

Don't criticize Dick or you will be arrested by the Gestapo SS Secret Service.