The Story of Claiborne Ellis, Former Klansman. Claiborne Ellis was the Grand Cyclops of the KKK when he met black activist, Ann Atwater. The best of enemies became the best of friends. (Ellis died early last month, at the age of 78). via Halcyon_Daze at Mefi.

Sober Santa II I try to refrain from single-link posts, but this was just so cute, and made me laugh. Ho ho ho. [via]

itsgettinghotinhere.org This is a blog about the actions of several environmental activist groups coinciding with the UN Conference on Climate Change currently underway. more inside

Curious George: CSS & browsers I'm just starting to work with Cascading Style Sheets and I find (of course) that IE displays everything differently from Firefox. (Haven't even tried Opera yet) What gives? How do webdesigners "fix" something like that? more inside

"Around the world with 80 braincells." "Read Smiffy's postcards as he journeys to the far corners of the world!"

New Mystery Mammal Found. Captured on film in Borneo. It's 'like a large domestic cat with a muscular tail. Me wants! What to call it, though?

Curious George Fellow simians. I tried to search the monkeyfilter for a nice link I saw a while back. The link I woz wanting was to do with searching for US citizens and returning their addresses (useful for this time of year for sending Xmas cards!) Anyway cutting a long story short, putting all sorts of search terms for this, plus searching for my own (meager) posts revelaed NOTHING! All ideas welcome!!!

China's greatest journalist dies NYT link (bugmenot) Liu Binyan "fearless and incorruptible, China's conscience" dies aged 80. more inside

Ricky Gervais podcast Ep. 1. A half-hour of all-new drivel from Ricky Gervais, Stephen Merchant and Karl Pilkington.

He Works Hard For The Money ...There are so many IT-friendly man studs on Monkeyfilter...just call me Big Mama, and I'll hook you boyz up.