2003 | 2004 | 2005 | 2006 | 2007 | 2008 | 2009 | 2010 | 2011 | 2012 | 2013 | 2014 | 2015 | 2016 | 2017 | 2018
Whole year | January | February | March | April | May | June | July | August | September | October | November | December

June 07, 2004

Rick James: Financial Wizard Learn how you can blow "$7,000 a week" on crack cocaine and still be worth $40 million.
Absolutely stunning idea wonderfully executed. TheyWorkForYou is a new blog-like website and search utility that allows people to see every word uttered in England's House of Commons by Members of Parliament going back to 2001. via BoingBoing.
Curious George: Fair Rates for Urban Movers I'm moving from Manhattan to Brooklyn and for the first time in my life have enough stuff to require movers. The company I'm thinking of working with is charging $90/hour for four movers (I'm moving to a 4th floor walkup from an elevator building) with a four-hour minimum. How does this compare to Monkeys' experiences with other moving companies and rates, especially for those who have hired movers in NYC? Is it unreasonable, a deal, or just par for the New York course?
Philip K Dick Interview. Via Warren Ellis's badsignal mailout: "David sez, 'A friend loaned me a bunch of tapes, and one of them turned out to be an audio interview of Philip K. Dick, interviewed in his home. You can hear the television on and his kids playing in the background. Very relaxed and chatty. I transfered it to mp3s. Everything you hear is exactly what was on the tape..." more inside
Hilarious joke but the rest is depressing and sadly coming true. It is well known that when informed of the first plane smashing into the World Trade Centre George Bush said "that's some bad pilot". What is not so well known is that when informed of the second collision he said "Jesus! It's not the same guy again is it?".
Ladies and gentlemen, warm up those arms. Yes, it's time for the second annual national air-guitar championships! Which culminates in the air-guitar world championships in Finland. Novices and wannabes, check this out.
Rhubarbarama! More information and recipes than you can shake a stick of rhubarb at. more inside
Atlantis? Yet another person thinks he's found it.
Mysterious animal appears in North Carolina. If you're from those parts, can you explain what it is?
Clean up those dirty pictures! Need to clean up your digitals and find a home for them? more inside
Curious George: You call THAT fun! What do you do for fun? (Besides peeling bananas and drinking) more inside
Oops. A 35-ton concrete truck drives over an Ohio bridge marked for six tons. Truck is written off, driver makes monkey of self.
Learn (sort of) as you eat Using new technology ingeniously called "Prints", text can be printed directly onto food. Apparently, one of the inaugural uses is printing Junior Trivial Pursuit questions onto Pringles Potato chips (with the answers on the back, presumably). more inside
Mali's people reap no reward from cloned wild-rice gene. "Born a generation ago, partly in California laboratories and farm fields, biotechnology promised a banquet of benefits: It would bring more choice to consumers, pose no environmental threat to organic and conventional farmers, create little or no regulatory burden for government and, most tantalizingly, help feed the world's hungry. So far - like UC Davis' effort to aid Mali - biotechnology has not delivered."