Bud Plant Illustrated Books Focusing on illustrative, cartooning, comic, reference and how-to art books from the 1880's to the 1990's. more inside

Cryptome welcomes documents for publication that are prohibited by governments worldwide, in particular material on freedom of expression, privacy, cryptology, dual-use technologies, national security, intelligence, and secret governance -- open, secret and classified documents -- but not limited to those. Cartome is a companion site to Cryptome. It is an archive of spatial and geographic documents on privacy, cryptography, dual-use technologies, national security and intelligence -- communicated by imagery systems: cartography, photography, photogrammetry, steganography, climatography, seismography, geography, camouflage, maps, images, drawings, charts, diagrams, imagery intelligence (IMINT) and their reverse-panopticon and counter-deception potential. more inside

Words fail me. SaveMartha.com has purchased the rights to tattoo the phrase “Save Martha! Sign the petition to pardon Martha Stewart! SaveMartha.com” on the right arm of Long Island, NY pool-cleaner Joe Tamargo. Discuss.

Monkeyfilter nominated for Best Community Weblog

Monkey, Ninja, Pirate, Alien: The role playing game. (To be filed under WTF)

Project Implicit - It seems biases are more prevalent inside us than we imagine, and these tests seem to indicate that they might not be going away any time soon. Related link: WaPo article (very long!) about the phenomenon, the tests, and what it all means. Via The Smoking Room

Curious George Responding Style When you respond to a post or comment made by someone, I am curious as to if you respond to what that person is saying at the moment, or if you respond to them as a collection of past posts that makes up an online persona?

Australians. Can't take 'em anywhere - Look at this photo closely.

Andy Goldsworthy makes art from nature.

Funny Flaps (flash). Also, Willy Wonky.

Make an mp3 player out of a tin of mints. Also check out this post pointing to more resources on building your own mp3 player. via EmptyFree.com

The lucky virgin hammer The excellent flash seizure, the spinning zodiac hands, the iron rabbit frenzy, and the monkey king's turtle slash. All these and more from the Verbal Kung-Fu Generator. more inside

Honey Amber Rose "It is our Mission to Reinvent the Image of Beer and fund the wonderful cause of Womens Entrepreneurial Dreams."

The Scandal of the Evangelical Conscience. An in depth analysis on the failure of Evangelical Christians to live up to their religion. On everything from charitable giving, sexual relations, divorce, extramarital sex, pornography, racism and materialism, both the standard Christian and the Evangelical Christian differ very little from the "unsaved". From Christianity Today found via Linkfilter. more inside

The Raiding the 20th Century Expansion! Last year, DJ Food/Strictly Kev released the awesome Raiding the 20th Century mashup (previously discussed here). A year later, he has released an expanded version. Collaborating with Paul Morely, author of the book Words and Music, the goal was to "make the definitive document on cut up music." Seems to me they succeeded. more inside

Carbon monoxide poisioning I need some advice and assistance. While in my basement this evening, I discovered a ventilation pipe coming out of my heater was completely disconnected. I called both the landlord and the gas company and they both came and BOTH stated that it was carbon monoxide coming into our basement. more inside

Flash: Prince of Persia. I haven't played much of it yet, but it looks like UbiSoft has made the entire classic game available online in Flash format. Praise be to Jordan Mechner!

Cake decorating of yesteryear

Stuporous George can't remember... I seem to have a memory problem more often then I used to - but I don't really have anything to compare it to, so this is where monkeys come in... more inside

Cryptome Eyeball Series - pictures of hypocrisy & reality. Be warned, although most of these look benign, I cannot say that some of them might not be graphic. However, I can say that this next selection IS graphic, so don't look at it at all if you are squeamish: The Face of War, pix taken in order to identify the dead of Fallujah in November 2004. Be warned, these corpses would make Romero gag, but we must see what war will wreak. More: Dahr Jamail on Devastated Iraq. The Tsunami of Iraq. To defeat war, we must see the evil that it has wrought. To fight evil, we must know the face of evil. more inside