Blame Canada?

The Boat Lullabies. Featuring the Square America series.

The fabled Northwest Passage, first navigated in 1906 by Roald Admundsun after many failed expeditions, is set to become navigable year round if current warming trends persist.

Psychopathic Coworkers. No, really. According to Prof. Emeritus Robert Hare, low-level psychopaths who are not inclined towards criminal activity may in fact be the crazy manager/coworkers that have inspired so many miserable hours.

Censored Japan A-bomb stories published after 60 years and here they are. Sorry for two posts in one day, but THIS is significant!

I Love the British Let's hear it for a level playing field for potatoes!

OK, OK, I know we've had "cat and dog fashion" sites before. But this one is just so... well, so very... um... sort of ... well, you gotta see it to know what I mean.

"is this where baby taxi-cabs come from?"

Curious George: Building a Search Engine I need to build a Search Engine more inside

GoDaddy Loves Torture. Bob Parsons, founder of GoDaddy (the domain registrar and hosting company) came out in favor of torture on his blog today. more inside

World of monkey. I have a distinct feeling that this must be a double, if not triple, but I can't find a previous reference.

Beck is a scientologist! Sorry if this is old news, but I was in shock when I found out. more inside

File magazine - unconventional photography.

He's more chemical than vegetable now. One of the better Star Wars parodies floating around, slicky produced (oh, I'm so sorry for that).

Curious Empire-building George I'm thinking of setting something up whereby women interested in escorting and who want to know more about it can come to a seminar lead by moi...I figure I have enough material for 2 hours with room for lots of Q&A about T&A. Do you think it'd fly? Are women curious enough? How much should I charge? What you think, sexy curious monkeys? I'm jusy a-tossin' those irons in the fire...

Grateful George: Thank You! A big thanks to all you Monkeys who helped me a few weeks ago with a cat problem. more inside

The Unauthorized Chronology of the DC Universe is the single most astonishing work of comics storyline history I've found online. It begins 19 billion years B.C.E. and continues on through to the End of Time, where Superman traps Doomsday temporarily (Ha!) and time loops around to its beginning (Cop-out! Give me 'splosions!). In between is more than you ever wanted to know about the DC Comics Superhero pantheon. more inside

Romanian nun crucified. "God has performed a miracle for her, finally Irina is delivered from evil," AFP quoted the priest as saying. "I don't understand why journalists are making such a fuss about this."

Moon Illusions are coming to a sky near you this week. Look Up!

China ruins best chance of beating bird flu epidemic. A Vietnamese doctor who treated bird flu patients has contracted the disease himself. New fears that H5N1 is now entering the final (Phase 6) stage (efficient human-to-human transmission) to become a global pandemic. Warnings grow DIRE . . . and the beat goes on.