Twang the Monkey.

Pro Tossers. Professional Tossing League. [Via some guy's bumper sticker]

Cowcatcher. Invented by Charles Babbage in 1838, the cowcatcher has prevented many derailments and has even helped recovering alcoholics. Although it has been known to catch the occasional guitarist.

The Grey Lodge Occult Review, Issue #11.

Is Robert Smith still the same? Or has he changed? Find out in this thrilling interview! See the messy-haired one speak of Corganesque control-freakiness, eye-glasses, and much more! Yes, I figured it was time to start up some hype for the Cure's new album, which drops on June 22 and was produced by some nu-metal tart named Ross Robinson. more inside

Onomatopoeia, gee it's good to see ya!
The dictionarians at Merriam-Webster have announced their Ten Favorite Words for 2004 more inside

Have you used a Cray today? A Cray Y-MP and Cyber 960 are available for your amusement via telnet, thanks to volunteers of Munich's Association for Historical Computers. Most of their machines run only on Saturday due to the massive power requirements. And hey, if you have any fiber optic cable it sounds like they could use it!

Draft Registration: United States Armed Forces Pursuant to Sub-Section 8, Paragraph C of Executive Branch Classified Directive #13334-P, dated 1 May 2004, the Armed Forces of the United States stand directed by President George W. Bush to accelerate preparations for compulsory induction of the adult non-homosexual population into active combat duty in the War Against Terror.

Catfight 2 Miller makes another tasteless commercial with Pamela Anderson.

B. Kliban : A brief gallery of Kliban's work, arranged by "difficulty." more inside

Slashdot effect: a force for good? On November 8th, 2001, Distributed Proofreaders was slashdotted for the first time, with others over the years (third graph down). OK, so it's bad form to link to a site where they need to sign in, just so they can read a post, but really....everyone should be in distributed proofreading anyway.

His other job is chief lama in Russian republic. Meet Philadelphia-born Erdne Ombadykow, a.k.a. Telo Rinpoche the spiritual leader of Kalmykia, the only predominantly Buddhist region in Europe. more inside

Scrap metal or ICBMs? First off, this is from an admittedly far-right website, The World Tribune, but it brings up an interesting discussion point. What I find odd is that in right's effort to prove their reason for war, (i.e. the existence of weapons of mass destruction) they have exposed a huge flaw in their reasoning and execution of war, namely the distribution and spread of WMDs in the anarchy of post invasion. Like many folks who opposed this war I did not even argue with the assertion that Saddam had WMDs, just that the war and its aftermath would allow for any weapons, should they exist, to fall into the hands of other far more fragmented political groups/terrorist organizations than Bathist Iraq. Looks like this might have been the case.

Amusing place names in the UK. As a follow-up of sorts to this post, find amusing place names in the UK within a 40-mile radius of your home. Close to me include Bottom Flash, Menlove Gardens, Dick Slack and Hole Bottom. PeurileFilter

Make Others Bend To Your Irresistable Will Through Your Awesome Secret Powers!!! My inner eight-year-old Knows This Is True. more inside

Ray Guns II - These Ones Shoot Corks! - Monkeys love Ray Guns. Here are some (rather expensive) ones that look like they're straight out of Ming the Merciless' armory - and they shoot wine corks 100 feet! more inside

I Feel Fine - by an obscure little Liverpudlian group - You should recall the rather excellent recent Monkey post of Melon's Come Together FLASH video. Here's another one, p'raps not quite as impressive but still worth a boogie, of the Fab Four's early hit "I Feel Fine". FLASH, obviously, seen @ & nicked from Bifurcated Rivets

Click here to see the story and photo. Guy cheats on girl. They break up. Guy spreads rumors about girl. Girl obtains highly embarrassing picture of guy and posts it on the web. (Not safe for work)

Bunraku: The Little Story of Two Monkeys
Windows Media Video, probably NSFW. Pretty amazing though.

24 Hour Dot Com Our mission is to build a dotcom in 24 hours. We will then sell the company on eBay and get rich. [via glassdog]