A Softer World. more inside

Hall of Fame 2004 The best of classical music [via Nomen Luni].

The BrainGate™ Any remember this post from a while back? It seems that a Massachusetts company has just gotten FDA approval for human trials of a neural implant that can act as an interface for a personal computer.

The Monkey's Paw! "He sat alone in the darkness, gazing at the dying fire, and seeing faces in it. The last face was so horrible and so simian that he gazed at it in amazement. It got so vivid that, with a little uneasy laugh, he felt on the table for a glass containing a little water to throw over it. His hand grasped the monkey's paw, and with a little shiver he wiped his hand on his coat and went up to bed." more inside

Very embarrassed by how badly I did on this the first time out, but by the third time I could beat it. And now I know where Montana is.

"Click as fast as you can on the nut icon to make the coconuts fall on the ground." Almost as much fun as flinging poo. Almost.

Plug Pulled on Air America? Already???

Forget Al Queda, I'm more worried about the Australians

LEGO Volvo As a Swede with brotherly love for (almost) all things Danish, how could I possibly not adore a new Volvo made of LEGO? How could you?

Pearl Jam & Nirvana Quiz

New Kids Never Grow Old: M.O.N.K.E.Y. Part VI With the next comment, the MonkeyFilter "Blogstop" exercise will equal the number of comments on MetaFilter's version (although we still have almost 2000 to go to match the original). Monkeys: Start you lexicographies! more inside

A National ID Card Wouldn't Make Us Safer. Bruce Schneier responds to Nicholas Kristof's call for Americans to adopt National ID cards. [Via rebecca's pocket.]

Old Tin Can (.mov) Awesome song, creepy video. I know nothing more about it.

Terragen. An awesome and very easy to use landscape generator. A free piece of software that lets you render almost photo-realistic images in a matter of seconds. Just look at what you can do with it.

Sometimes somebody figures out exactly what the internet is for. I present, for consideration by the academy, Cat Town. Start by meeting the cast. Then watch all the nail-biting episodes!

A different kind of beauty... A 'protest' candidate received strong support from Russian internet voters, before being disqualified from a regional beauty contest. more inside

Dance Dance Karnov. Save the city, Karnov! Dancink like you have never danced before! (via Fazed)

Eighteen ways to die... in Legoland. Films of Lego death, dismemberment, and firey death.

MonkeyFilter: The Tagline I'm not sure why I did it, but I cataloged all of the taglines (that I found--94 of them) in comment threads here at MoFi. I laughed my bum off and I decided to share. Votes for a random tagline generator on the main page?? more inside

Bone up on your biology. An index of Flash/Shockwave interactive biology animations, ranging from genetics to biochemistry to neuroscience. Via Science Magazine's NetWatch.