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Fruit Flies. Fight Club. Two great tastes... you know the rest.

Former Sen. Gary Hart says he, too, warned Rice about an imminent terror attack on two occasions before 9/11.

How's Robert Pollard's Drinking? Guided By Voices lead singer Robert Pollard has been ripped by the music press in recent years for his excessive onstage drinking? more inside

The Man of Steel loves a good musical. Select "Uniform" to view. Apologies for the Amex plug, but this was just too much Superman-y goodness not to share.

MeFI selectively open

Breedster. A cross between Friendster, tamagoitchi and an ant colony A new game by Dutch game maker drunkmenworkhere, known for his zero-content games and experiments just presented his latest game: Breedster. Here you have to keep your avatar alive by eating and defecating, and create new offspring by fornicating with others. But you have limited amounts of energy so you have to keep coming back to do those things. It can be quite an experience if somebody has fornicated with you when you were asleep. It sometimes feels like a virtual rape. So this game is a social experiment as well. Breedster is, just like Orkut, by invitation only but I've been a heavy breeder during the last days and have quite a few eggs to spare. So send me an email with subject "Breedster" (to keep my filters happy) if you want to take a look and I'll sign you up.

Native American Trickster Tales In the Native American oral tradition, the vulgar but sacred Trickster assumes many forms. He can be Old-Man Coyote among the Crow tribes, Raven in northwestern Indian lore, or, more generically, "The Tricky One" (such as Wakdjunkaga among the Winnebago or Manabozho among the Menomini), to mention just a few of his manifestations.

MS Paint vs Classic Album covers. Possibly the greatest I Love Music thread ever.

Russian Prison Tattoos. "It is not known when tattooing first became a common practice in Russian prisons and Stalinist Gulags. Soviet researchers first discovered and studied this underground activity in the 1920s; photographs of prisoners from that period suggest an already elaborate and highly developed subculture. More than simple decoration, the images symbolically proclaim the wearer's background and rank within the complex social system of the jailed." Via Geisha Asobi. more inside

In the spirit of the day. Top 100 April Fool's Day Hoaxes of All Time

Curious George: The MonkeyFilter Themesong With all the talk of a CD swap, the DIY portion of my monkey brain got to thinking about the possiblity of MoFiers who dabble in music collaborating to make - The MonkeyFilter Themesong. Is there any kind of interest? more inside

idn fi dwid (upside down) Some Friday 4/1 fun. I wanted to post a meme about Republicanism Shown to be Genetic. But then I found out my true pimp name. Then I thought - why not mix the two together?? Monkeys and Gentlefriends, I give you: the Pimpublican Genetic Thread! more inside

Worst Luck Ever [via Macphisto]

Swiss National Exhibition Bern 1914. A virtual museum.

Draw Your Boss: The horrors of ms paint and a passive-aggressive hatred of your supervisor.

Night Sky Murals is a process applied to a room of your choice that creates a permanent, realistic, astronomically accurate simulation of a starry night sky in a darkened room. You get to choose the day and time represented.

A Not-entirely Depressing Iraq Story I'm not saying this little tale of a Baghdad gym owner who adores the current governor of California doesn't have disturbing details, but overall, it ain't as grotesquely disturbin' as most of the news we've been getting this week.

Owners DO resemble their dogs!

How India is saving capitalism. "For one Silicon Valley company, hiring Indian programmers wasn't about greed, it was about survival. A special report from Chennai, globalization's ground zero." more inside