Curious George: the longest video? Today is MTV's 25th birthday and they're celebrating by showing the new The Streets video, which, at 20 minutes, apparently is the longest ever. But is it? more inside

Battle of Panjawai. A Canadian soldier in Afghanistan describes the 3-day mission that lasted 14 days. (Annotated version here.)

Tourb.us: Find Local, Live Music "Ever find out the day after one of your favorite bands played a show you didn't know about? We've had that happen too often and we hate it. Now you can find out ahead of time so you'll be laughing at your friends when they find out the show is sold out." more inside

MEAT CAKE more inside

Polish Movie Posters

A Primeval Tide of Toxins "Runoff from modern life is feeding an explosion of primitive organisms. This 'rise of slime' is killing larger species and sickening people." A long article from the LA Times. more inside

Liar, Liar, Pants on Fire After claiming that he is naturally a testosterone bomb, and winning the support of Lance Armstrong, it turns out that Floyd Landis's urine contained synthetic testosterone. Also, Justin Gatlin's a cheat. more inside

The Art of the Shiv

Remember the Falling Sand game that all the cool kids were playing last year? Well, now there's a new version. (java) more inside

Regency illustrations A large collection illustrating life during the Regency period in Britain, Europe and the New World. more inside

A Tank of Gas, a World of Trouble. "Pulitzer-winning correspondent Paul Salopek traced gas pumped at a suburban Chicago station to the fuel’s sources around the globe. In doing so, he reveals how our oil addiction binds us to some of the most hostile corners of the planet—and to a petroleum economy edging toward crisis."

Curious George and his Fantasy Football. Sister Renault has to join the office fantasy football league. She needs a name for her team. I told her we could help. more inside

Too stupid to boil an egg? Well now the egg will tell you when it's done. FFS!

Curious Birthday George New page on the wiki. If you want your Birthday listed then please post a comment here or - even more radical - do it yourself on the wiki! more inside

Tamara Drewe by Posy Simmonds is a graphic novel being serialised in The Guardian. Episodes one to eighty-something are currently available. Tamara Drewe is inspired by Thomas Hardy's Far from the Madding Crowd. Simmonds's previous graphic novel, Gemma Bovery, was similarly inspired by 19th century literature - some French book about some chick by someone called Flambé, or something.

Don't date him Girl "i do not want man soiled by white round eye english woman or by soul sister like happen to Kim Jong Il." Nor do we, by &deity;

May alter sex? Is this bloke an idiot or what?

The Book of All Enormous Things is a free, illustrated, ongoing, online novel. The author's art is also worth a look. more inside

Suburban Nightmare Long Island set the tone for the nightmare that suburbia was to become. more inside

(Not so) live from New York, it's Saturday Night! I found this SNL transcripts database during a web search on "Ken Burns' haircut". I thought that you hard core SNL fans might be interested.