Curious George: Firewire problem. What's the deal with a Firewire hard drive that disconnects every few hours? I have to unplug and plug it back in to get it to work again. more inside

Scientists find 'mass dodo grave' Scientists have discovered the "beautifully preserved" bones of about 20 dodos at a dig site in Mauritius. No complete Dodo skeleton has ever been found in Mauritius and no full set of bones currently exists in collections, so this is exciting for researchers and people who like Dodos.

Curious George: the lost art of letter writing In this day and age of ubiquitous email, instant messaging, online forums, and text messaging, do any of the Monkeys write letters anymore? more inside

The Touchtone Genius video [via newgrounds] for the request-a-tune guy's song at songs to wear pants to (also here).

Monsterpiece Theatre! Authorities are investigating allegations that the body of British broadcaster Alistair Cooke — among hundreds of others — was illegally carved up in the back room of a funeral home and sold so its parts could be used in transplants.

A kiss is just a kiss... In the Christmas spirit, A newspaper decided to run a color photo of a woman making out with an orangutan. Reactions were somewhat mixed. more inside

The Top 10 Weirdest Case Mods via everybody today

Curious George: Firefox Window Someone has been monkeying with Firefox at home. Now there is a grey empty 'box' along the bottom of the window. I hates it. more inside

Microsoft Buys Out Opera - could this be true? More clues here?

John Lennon & Bob Dylan share a taxi - out of their heads. -GOOGLE VIDEO- Meanwhile, not very far away, Lenin hails a taxi.

Women aroused watching monkey sex more inside

Google gives a Xmas present to Python lovers Nice Xmas present to computer programmers everywhere: Guido van Rossum, otherwise known as the Benevolent Dictator for Life of Python has been hired by Google (anyone needs a link for it?). Whereas programmers hired by Google get 1 day a week to work on their "pet projects", GvR will apparently work 50% on Python and 100% with Python. more inside

The end of the period. A new contraceptive will soon let women stop menstruating. more inside

The Chappelle Theory My nomination for best conspiracy theory of the year. And I've never even seen Dave's show. Hmmm, maybe time to fire up that BT client.

Reuters 2005 Here (Because the URL is over 140 characters, the "URL" in the post new thread wouldn't take it. Dude, check out Courtney Love! (second from last) shamelessly lifted from Le Bleu

Lawsuit-Filing George Finding an Address more inside

Mail Order Husbands. Stuck for last minute Christmas gifts? Don't know what to get for that spinster aunt? Problem solved!

Happy Palace has left the building

Curious George: Weird Word 2003 Problem Technological monkeys, please help! more inside

Curious George: Domain suggestion service. Are there any good registrars that can make suggestions for available domains? I tried registering (blah)forum.com on Dotster, which is taken, but instead of suggesting (blah)groups.com, (blah)community.com, it keys in on "forum" and suggests nonrelevant nouns like dogforum.com, boogerforum.com, etc. Do any other engines work better?