Mindfulness In Plain English

Frog Hospital Croaks Australia's frog hospital is closing. Possibly the only frog hospital in the world, it played an important role as frogs are indicators of environmental health. Of course, some of those chazzwazzers aren't very welcome in Australia anyway... So we're left wondering: Who Will Run the Frog Hospital now?

Wagner: genius, anti-semite, cross-dresser. A new biography of Richard Wagner by Joachim Köhler paints a picture of a deeply emotionally broken human being, a user, a paranoid; moulded by parental neglect into a romantic with an inability, perhaps, to truly love anyone but himself and his music. Literature. An article from The New Criterion.

Curious George: MusicFilter Looking for music recommendations. I recently got a copy of Dummy by Portishead and really like it... more inside

I don't know who Longmire is, but he's got some amusing romance covers.

How to BBQ a Man [QT, LSFW]. A warm story of summer, friendship, happiness, and cannibalism.

Curious George- Jeep Clicker Can I myself replace the battery in a clicker for a Jeep ? more inside

Dance Monkey Dance A great, wry, flash animation taking a look at human behavior. [via screenhead.com]

Curious George - deals on ibooks? Hola Monos! I've been lugging my G5 desktop and cinema screen monitor every other week into work where I do video graphics for a television show. I NEED to get a laptop and can use all the processing power that I can get for around $1200 bucks more or less which is what I am getting back from my tax return. I've shopped on ebay and am hoping for a deal to come my way, but am also looking for a deal on new machines. Does anyone have any ideas on mac deals? BTW, I am a confirmed mac user so any windows machines are out of the question. Thanks ahead of time for your help. SR

Curious George: RSS on Your Own Site. Is it possible? How do you do it? more inside

Mars Attacks! with some disturbingly gruesome trading cards.

While watching Santa with Muscles, starring Hulk Hogan, I spied this. It is posted, appropriately to the is_it_gay community. And I have to ask, is it?

eat, drink, meet the_bone. This thursday (3/24) around 7ish, we Los Angeles monkeys are having a little potluck dinner thing to bask in the warmth of the_bone's glow. If any other monkeys are interested, e-mail me and I will give you the rest of the details. more inside

art for obsessive compulsives.

For my dead homies Study: Homeless, unemployed favor malt liquor Potent, cheap 0's heavily targeted black, Hispanic youth Updated: 4:14 p.m. ET March 14, 2005 WASHINGTON - Malt liquor, a type of 0's that is higher in alcohol than other brews, is largely a drink of da homeless 'n unemployed, 'n is likely be abused, U.S. researchers reported Monday n' shit. God Bless Tha Shizzolator (Shizzolator previously appeared here) more inside

Now, where did I put the very dirtiest parts of last week's TV? Oh, yeah: at parentstv.org, home to those fundie censorship warriors who crank out carbon-copy complaint letters to the FCC. Why, they'd be sure to wipe out obscenity if they'd start putting together a nightly half-hour highlight reel of all the dirtiest, crudest, nudest stuff on TV. With RSS and Bittorent. (Uh, NSFW, if watching a man cram a woman into his ass on South Park isn't S at your W)

And Fortran Begat IAL. To nerds like me, this poster of programming evolution is quite possibly the most fascinating flowchart ever created. It was inspired by this chart, which was designed by Eric Levenez. And, as if that weren't enough, you can also search a database of nearly 2500 computer languages. 010001100111010101101110! First link requires Adobe Acrobat. more inside

Michael Crichton is a moron - Even if our civilization stops burning fossil fuels immediately, the damage already done will continue to increase global warming for the next 100 years - at least. That's the conclusion of two studies appearing in the latest issue of the journal Science. The sky isn't falling, it's more like a sloooow ascent of the ground. I might move inland.

The truth about those 'Free iPod' offers Of course they're not really free. Duh.

80's music nostalgia wave! Duran Duran's new album was only the beginning. Billy Idol's new CD is upon us, while New Order's new album is almost here too. Mötley Crüe, meanwhile, are working on their new CD, as are Kate Bush and Bruce Springsteen; even Paula Abdul is planning a comeback. If Duran Duran can do it, anyone can! Right? Let's hope so. more inside