Browzar Surf in complete privacy, thanks to the absence of those really cool "features" that everyone I know turns off anyway. more inside

The Royalist Amusing story about the Queen's cousin and his wife being seated next to the toilets by staff on a cheap easyJet flight from Majorca.

9/11 commemorative coin. Lavishly clad in gleaming silver miraculously recovered from a bank vault found under tons of debris at Ground Zero! May well be among the most historically meaningful collectibles you will ever own!

Airfix kit makers in nosedive after parent company's crash more inside

Drinking juice can help prevent Alzheimer's. So drink yer juiceys monkeys. But also further to the cool, recent discussion on scientific method, this is an example of press coverage of science. How good is it? more inside

Overheard at the beach.

15 Aliens found working for U.S. military contractor in Roswell, NM more inside

Grackles - Common Grackles, Grackle facts, The Great-Tailed Grackle Mysteries, Grackle Whacked, and the Great Grackle Migration. more inside

Strangely compelling ... a guide to the UK's most rubbish motorways ...

Hot Dog Infused Vodka "Over the years, I've tried various sorts of infusions, with vodka and other liquors. Fruit and herb-infused are the best known, and are often wonderful. But what I like is meat. Where's the infusion for people like me? I felt disenfranchised, and alone, especially after some research on the interwebs revealed a real lack of meat-based liqueurs. It would be up to me to blaze the trail." more inside

Thank you choosing HP. US soldier in I-Rak takes his customer services woes out on his HP printer with what looks like an M60. Worth it just to hear what sounds like Dr Zoidberg passing comment at the end. Yes, it's YouTube, and yes, it's taken from here

Mt E'Mei's monkeys are too damned fat. 'E'Mei Mountain monkeys have been busy keeping healthy recently and now many of them have regained nice slim figures with the help of experts.' And they aint the only ones having trouble with their diet. /pats tum more inside

Curious George How does one get banned from slashnet.org when all they have ever done was join #mofirc to chat with monkeys? more inside

I know I need this how about you?

Historic brothel may be demolished, or perhaps restored. That's the dilemma facing heritage officials in Jinggang, Hunan. more inside

Youth Against Sudoku

96 kilobytes WHAT .kkrieger is a free FPS game that, when running, displays graphics like this (running on my own machine) but what is really fancy is that the whole game takes up no more than 98304 bytes of hard disk space. Say hello to procedural generation! more inside

Andrew Lloyd Webber to make "Master and Margarita" into musical.
Disney straight-to-DVD animated feature to follow.

Rumsfeld says Iraq War Critics Are Cowards Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld on Tuesday accused critics of the Bush administration's Iraq and counterterrorism policies of lacking the courage to fight terror. In unusually explicit terms, Rumsfeld portrayed the administration's critics as suffering from "moral and intellectual confusion" about what threatens the nation's security. In other news, reality turns out to be optional. more inside

Free-ish music If you live in the US and Canada, anyway.