Playable Parody of King's Quest - called Peasant's Quest. Your objectives are to dress like a peasant, smell like a peasant, and be on fire like a peasant. Requires FLASH. From the people who brought you Homestar Runner which I despise. Via Nerdfilter

Godchecker.com - do you like gods? So do me! This is a guide to pantheons, mythologicals, deities & religions of the world. Plus, it has an oracle! (guess what I asked it) If you like that, you may also enjoy God of the Month Club. This month's god is Juturna. She got back, yo. Via Cynical-C.

A monowheel is one big wheel with rider and engine (if any) INSIDE its circumference. Seen at the museum of retrotech.

WIGU!
"The Monkey Represents SHARING."

Memeorandum Came upon this site today and found it quite worthy for being my homepage. The Headline News is displayed and directly below is snippets of several blogs accounts of that news. more inside

Eddie van Halen saw this and started spinning ...so they just decided it was time to bury him. Kaki King plays guitar like acid played Syd Barrett.

Rutgers Scientists Take Big Step Towards Stopping HIV Maybe it's too early to say, but this still looks pretty promising.

Worldwide Pants Ok, me an' the woman wanna find a place in the world to go in May, during our brief, mutual abatement from academia. So, we're looking to spend a couple of weeks in someplace cheap and foreign. Little help? more inside

Monkey Mash-up Monday I loved last week's mash-up links, so here we go again. The weird thing about this one isn't that it features Dolly Parton singing Stairway to Heaven. The weird thing is that it's actually really good. And if you can't get enough Stairway, try here, or here or maybe here, the fabulous April Winchell collection.

20 Questions A.I. style. Think of an object, answer the questions posed by the computer and see how long it takes it to identify what you're thinking. (via The Blue)

What's this song? This is pretty cool. I'm surprised how many songs from my "favorite" bands I don't know. *Use the "Create own game in seconds" field on the upper right hand corner, as the default is random.

Behold, the Puppy Purse. It "minimizes the stresses on your body while maximizing your ability to interact with your dog or cat." BUT WAIT! You can also... "wear it like a shoulder bag or fanny pack, carry it like a purse, or use the straps as a leash."

Watch the Monkey DISSOLVE - a QUICKTIME movie of a monkey carcass rotting, er, well, stripped of it's compenent parts, and sort of tumbling away. Don't worry, it's not that horrible. Obviously you will need Quicktime to watch this. Duh. more inside

High Desert Meetup There was some mention earlier of getting a meetup together when I visit Joshua Tree come January [mi] more inside

A2/Detroit MoFi Meetup This Saturday, Dec 18th, starting at 2pm at the Arbor Brewing Company. more inside

Skeletal structures are not the easiest thing to draw. As an art student myself, I've found that drawing the bone structure and THEN the character is much much easier. What is done here is brilliant. more inside

Haugesund to Trondheim, the long way round. Ask Microsoft's Mappoint route-finding service to plan the quickest route from Haugesund, in Norway, to Trondheim, also in Norway, and it suggests a forty-seven-and-a-half hour drive-athon involving a ferry to England, the Channel Tunnel to France, and an overland trek on through Belgium, the Netherlands, Germany, Denmark and Sweden before getting back into Norway. more inside

Guy spazzes out on "The Price is Right" I guess it's a put on, but it's funny nevertheless.

Fatboy Slim in three and a bit minutes performed by kittens! Oh, yes - it's real alright. This is an actual Fatboy Slim video. (for the new single 'The Joker') And it has kittens. And ducks. And trolley cars. But mostly kittens. Oh my gosh, so many kittens. more inside

Scientists claim to have found a way to please everyone in the stem-cell research debate by making embryos that cannot develop into human beings.