Monkey holiday cheer! "Mr Monkey would like it to be known that certain people prevent him wearing his excellent Christmas hat as often as he would like, and he wishes it could be Christmas every day. Mr Monkey has been listening to supermarket muzak too much." more inside

Pubic Stencils - Yes, I wrote Pubic Stencils. more inside

spamgraffiti. Online installations created from email spam by artist David Chien. Constantly changing as more spam arrives to various email addresses, Chien documents our virtual liter as part of his Virtual Artist Residency with online art journal Glasstire.

Monkeyfilter to be outsourced

Bush Monkey Picture Too good not to post. more inside

The music of pi will convert the first 10,000 digits of pi (3.14159...) into music, based on starting notes of your choosing. From fuyugare's comment here.

The Graphing Calculator Story [It's about a piece of math software but not boring at all]

Relief Riders International "is a humanitarian-based, adventure travel company that organizes horseback journeys through breathtaking areas in developing countries around the world." Or, more precisely, "15 riders will embark on a 15-day journey to 5 remote villages in rural Rajasthan. The caravan will be led by our skilled support team, and will include 8

Wal-Mart: Brand New Laptops less than $500!!! ooooh yeah. Methinks if this actually flies, they will do to computer manufacturers what they did to every other chain retailer. Crush them.

Officious George: Living in a Cube I'm blasting my headphones right now, because my cube neighbor is loudly yammering on and on about Kung Fu on the phone (and I can still hear him). I'm just wondering what's the best way to deal with an über annoying co-worker, (especially one who is sensitive to critcism) without breaking office politics. more inside

Meaningful Post Who makes the meaning, in this poststructural world? Me, the author of the post? Or you, the audience? more inside

Are you into viewing extraterrestial objects? If you are one of the relatively few on this planet that enjoys locating fuzzy patches of light in the night sky, Comet Machholz is just for you. more inside

Bush Monkeys. At long last the MoFi / Presidential connection is recognized.

Christmas Goodies

I want to work for Huh?® - "Our main consulting strategy is to convince clients that we do stuff they can't do themselves, and that we deserve lots of money for it. The best way to do this is to always look good, and always sound like we know something you don't. Because we do. Our CEO is rarely in his office, and all female team members are expected to sleep with him, or at least pretend like they want to. Our designers ride Razor scooters around the office, while wearing mail-bag style backpacks to hold their iPods." Via Bifurcated Rivets

A test for monkeys If you were in the following situation, what would you do, and why? more inside

Bit Torment? So we have all heard about the MPAA's recent offensive that appears to have claimed Suprnova and TorrentBits and many other popular aggregators. Does this mean they have won the War On Torrentism? Mark Pesce doesn't think so. Or rather, he thinks that the MPAA have won this round--not an extraordinary win given the nature of BitTorrent--only to guarantee their complete loss in the future, like with the RIAA. A natural reaction, but how likely is it? more inside

Don't eat it Steve!! -- Steve eats things he shouldn't and blogs about it.

Very rare holiday album. Featuring Axl Rose, Cocteua Twins and Porky Pig. What else belongs on the monkey holiday mix-tape?