Music at Aurgasm, and here, at The Hype Machine, and here, at kexp.com, and here, at e-mule. more inside

CONFIDENTIAL - DO NOT DISTRIBUTE Good for a brief chuckle. (Or corporate espionage.) via bb.

Curious George: Serif font. Is there a serif font that doesn't look as boring as Zurich? I'm doing parts of the back cover of a short-run nonfiction book in Zurich Condensed and it's coming across as really bland.

Toronto's Free Wi-Fi Toronto Hydro rolled out the city's free Wi-Fi - or wireless Internet access - Wednesday morning. The service will be free for six months - and will allow people wireless access to the World Wide Web throughout the downtown rather than solely at pre-existing Wi-Fi hotspots, generally cafes and restaurants.

Curious, George: What is in a name? DJ who? more inside

Femtroopers! Hot Dang!

My House is Worthless Hi, all. Two sites, and I'm too distraught to link: zillow.com and patrick.net. According to their reports, my house has just tanked in value. more inside

Playstation 3 in PAL regions delayed. On top of that, Sony is reducing their expected units produced to only half of their originaly intended numbers for North America and Japan. more inside

Curious George: Defining Extingencies Can anybody define extingencies or extingency for me? Or tell me if they are even real words? more inside

What's it all about? From throat to colon.

Valerie Plame Was In Charge of "Finding" WMDs In Iraq. The Bush administration didn't get the lies they wanted, so they ruined her career because they could. Booorrriiiing. Also includes crass, evil, crooked, self-defeating and possibly treasonous. YMMV. more inside

Verbs Intellectual Property Microsoft owns doing words. Do you have your licence to speak? (Via Slashdot.) more inside

25% of Russians have rumpty pumpty while driving. Amongst other things. (SFW)

It's a boy.... Princess Kiko of the Japanese Royal household gave birth by Caesarean section this morning. It is likely that he will be named as the heir to the Chrysanthemum Throne. But the debate continues... more inside

Toronto Meetup!! Bump the Toronto Meetup this weekend. More inside-->

Everyday. (youtube-video with sound) more inside

Celebrity worship. Is it programmed into your DNA? Is it addictive? Is it good for you -- especially if you're a teen? Is it a savage new religion? What's the psychology behind it? Is it a screwing up the academic world? Does it signify cultural decline and confusion?

A hundred dead elephants were recently spotted by Mike Fay on an aerial survey just outside the borders of Zakouma National Park in southeastern Chad. Fueled in part by an upswing in ivory demand from China and the crisis in nearby Dafur. See also, homunculus' fine post. more inside

Banksy does Paris... He's at it again. Previously mentioned here, here, and here, his latest project has been to abduct, remix (m4a audio) and reissue (embedded YT video) Paris Hilton's new CD. (Some images/content may be NSFW).

School Superintendent appears semi-nude in calendar, said to be in bad form. ""It was done to raise some money, and he was asked to do it," Irlbeck said. "We have told him as a board that he needs to do things in the community." Oh, the jokes, they write themselves. [via obscurestore]