MonkeyGifts - March swap. Opt-in for March gift swapping has begun. If you'd like to sign up, now's the time! (You can also sign up for the community but not swap this month - monthly swaps are only opt-in as you feel like it.) Here's all the community info if you're interested in joining us.

Curious George: Time Travel If you could travel any"where" in time, to what time period would you travel, and why? more inside

Flashblock allows you to avoid irritating, flash content in Firefox and Mozilla. It prevents flash content from loading, replacing it with a play icon - to see the content, merely click on it. Eat my *ss, drudgereport.

A Riddle: What do the Earth, Saturn, Jupiter, Io, Uranus, and Neptune have that the moon, Venus and Mercury don't?

Curious George: Landline ahoy! Hey monkeys. I'm moving to a new place and pondering dumping the landline totally. Anybody out there landline-free? Pros and cons? The only service we really need at home is high-speed Internet; is that more expensive without regular phone service?

Eat plutonium death, disgusting alien scum! Read the first ever appearance of D.R. & Quinch in 200AD, courtesy of the BBC. One of Alan Moore's quirkier creations. more inside

Figures of Speech. An interesting look at the various literary tools employed by writers and examples of their use. This is a useful resource for students of literature or simply those who enjoy reading and writing.

Curious George: Which new language would you most like to learn if given the chance? Why? ... sort of follow-up to this and this. more inside

22 beautiful things, selected by this guy from this place.

Sing for your supper. (or in this case breakfast). Here's a TV commercial (MP2) that just started running in Canada this month, for a Yogurt drink called Yop. It's fun, so start the week off right! courtesy Screenhead via LF more inside

Doodlebug (flash) Draw Draw Draw

Bush smokes bush! (The monkeys are slipping?) First Bill Cosby is accused of sexual assualt, and now George Bush is a coke head? Where are all the role models gone? Next thing you know the rumors of Bush having KKK ties will be found to be true. People where are the family values!?