The Cult of Wendell. Grab your jogging suits and Nikes everyone! The Cult is Now Open for your dining and dancing pleasure! more inside

Courtney Love In the Slate Amanda Fortini examines Courtney Love's extreme bavior and music. She believes to two are intertwined. more inside

Stuck in traffic? For US monkeys, the Dept. of Transportation has put together a doozy of a website. State by state highway information, complete with links to construction info, accident reports, and traffic cams. Good lord, the traffic cams. more inside

Tech support haikus - "Last January, the ISP I used to work for gave us an ultimatum-- in order to move customers through the phone que faster, (never mind that the average wait time was over 45 minutes) we were all to limit our after call notes to three lines or less." Can't get to newsgroup alt.binaries.sex.star-trek Sad little monkey. more inside

Viral marketing from mefi OK, This is probably the first time I've ever wanted a mefi account. ahem: "IT PUTS THE LOTION ON ITS SKIN"

Curious George...fingers.... how many of them do you use when you are typing...or, should i say, keyboarding? more inside

Dear General Kimmett, more inside

How Google plan to take over the world... in a nice way Jason Kottke predicts what Google are up to next - little less than worldwide domination. They have the perfect place to store this map (one of the world's largest computers that's all but incapable of crashing). And they are clever at reading this map. Google knows what people write about, what they search for, what they shop for, they know who wants to advertise and how effective those advertisements are, and they're about to know how we communicate with friends and loved ones. What can they do with all that? Just about anything that collection of Ph.Ds can dream up. A bit more information about Google's computing power, and the possibility that it holds.

The Periodic Table of Haiku presents a Haiku and sometimes a bit of trivia for every element on the table. Tangentially, since when have we been up to element 118?

The Covers Project. Welcome to The Covers Project. We're building a database of cover songs (songs performed by an artist other than the original performer) with the intention of creating cover "chains." A cover chain is a set of songs in which each song is a cover of a song by the band who covered the preceding song. more inside

Oz Bosses Goal--Entice You With Old Sol! I'm back, But a bit rusty. I'll get better! Promise!

Inspired by this post: The Megapenny Project "Since the first penny was minted in 1787, until present-day, over 300 billion pennies have been minted in the United States." So what exactly does that mean? An excellent way to conceptualize the unconceivable.

Charting meme spreadage, pass it on. I initially submitted this page's URL only to kottke.org. Since then, I have simply sat back and watched my hit counter logs to see who has come to this site and when... there will be an analysis of this data, in combination with related data as is seen fit. Could be worth keeping an eye on. [Via waxy.]

Space Mushrooms [Flash.]

"I got the hottest flow to hit the street since lava." Soundcircuit's Lyric Gallery features some of hip hop's best punchlines and braggadocio, from Big L and Tupac to Chino XL and KRS One. For some of the worst, check out the Wack Watch Hall of Fame. (NSFW language)

Bonobo Sex and Society. The species is best characterized as female-centered and egalitarian and as one that substitutes sex for aggression. This is an article from a 1995 Scientific American. Learn from the mighty bonobo!