Web Site Takes a Happy Approach to News. This is the kind of thing (the site could easily be renamed PutYourHeadInTheSand.com) that makes me ashamed to be a human being. But here it is: HappyNews.com. Be sure to check out the hard-hitting "Secret Santa exchanges made easier" expose!

Big Brother Is Watching You! A secret military database on war protests, labed as "suspicious activities." Newsfilter.

Meet the World: A Brazilian artist plays around with a few of the world's flags.

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

Sydney Is Burning? Race riots in Australia. Holy crap. Newsfilterish, but we've lots of Australian monkeys who may be able to put this in context.

Grenada - rescued from rape and slavery

Black Ink Monday "Black Ink Monday, a non-violent protest by the Association of American Editorial Cartoonists (AAEC), is a response to the Tribune Company's recent elimination of editorial cartooning positions at several of its newspapers, as well as a commentary on newspapers everywhere who have lost sight of the value of having a staff editorial cartoonist."

Copulating Deaf Couple Unaware of Own Volume "It sounded as if they were bludgeoning a cow. There would be a low moan, like a ‘moo,’ and then a ‘bang’ and a higher-pitched ‘moo.’ It was like ‘MOO…BANG…MOOO!’"

Red v. blue in the neighborhood Growing up with all these Crips and Bloods and V13 here in Los Angeles, I don't care how badly they fry Williams just after midnight tonight.

"Ice is Nature's way of saying 'get involved'." Last Saturday, at the Rheostatics' 5th annual Winter Nationals at the Horseshoe, some clips were played from funnyguys Truthhorse, whom I had never seen. Maybe it was the beer, maybe it was the company, but we all seemed to love the videos of people getting hurt. more inside

Skills And Knowledge - I've got skills. They're multiplying. But I'm not losing control because one of my skills is controlling multiplying skills. Which is handy. EXAMPLE: I can do something with my tongue that drives women absolutely wild!!!! By expelling air over its surface and carefully shaping the contours of my mouth I can form the words "Get in the kitchen and do the washing up."

Award-winning George What was the best FPP of 2005? How about this - the poster who receives most nominations in this thread by the end of the year will be awarded the coveted... more inside

Instant diabetes. Cutest. Things. Ever.