Curious George: WiFi software. I have a Linksys WiFi card on my Win 2K laptop. Since I installed drivers only, I seem to have no way of seeing what networks are out there. What "front end" software should I try? I heard Boingo was popular a couple of years ago, but it now looks like an interface for the "Boingo network".

A radio station has sold the naming rights to its newsroom, sparking some concern that advertisers had crossed a line and could influence news coverage. Hilarious? Moot? Pathetic? When is it all too clear that corporations control what you know about current events? more inside

Amazing Jugs! No, not porn star prosthetics nor Parton's protruberances, but glass jars and jugs as containers for impossible installations of head-scratching art. And you thought building a ship in one of these suckers was tough. [stolen shamelessly from msnbc's "clicked"] more inside

Draw a house, ignore the bad personality test. Flash-based sketch-a-house. Add it to MonkeyFilter Avenue or create your own neighbourhood.

Wondering how the other half lives? You had no choice in your circumcision, but now you can have your own artificial retractable foreskin! Just in time for Christmas, makes great stocking stuffer. Linked page is SFW, but enter the site at your own peril.

Barbra Streisand cancels her subscription to the L.A. Times due to the paper's firing of liberal columnist Robert Scheer. Laugh all you want, but Babs is probably onto something when she posits that Scheer's dismissal is "part of a larger trend toward the corporatization of our media." Indeed, the New Yorker recently published an article detailing the gutting of the L.A. Times by the suits at Chicago's Tribune Co., which owns the Times. more inside

Heres a stupid Christmas link for you Just a fun little video clip for the Christmas season, fans of Trans-Siberian Orchestra will esp. like it. Yes, I'm in finals week...

Talk to Strangers! [AIM gimmick via mefi projects] more inside