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.

Space in Motion. Here is a selection of multi-year Hubble snapshots in animated gif form. I particularly like "HH 47".

Curious, George: FTP upload: I want an email attachment to upload to my website. more inside

Christmas Lights. And here's part two. [wmv] more inside

Curious George: share your RPG memories Inspired by this comment by Fes, I'm wondering how many of the Monkeys used to (and perhaps still do) play 'analogue' RPG games (ie, you know, the ones where you'd sit in the same room with the other players)? more inside

As if HDTV isn't enough, NHK is working on an ultra HD video format, with a resolution of 7680 x 4320 pixels, equivalent to 16 HDTVs. Your 100 GB hard drive can hold 4.2 seconds of uncompressed UHDV footage. The first closed-circuit test transmissions took place last month. Check back in 2025 for more news!

A STITCH IN TIME SAVES .. ALPHABET: A toy for the children found in books, blocks, pictures and vermicelli soup. Contains 26 letters and only three syllables.

BANG! Banned Xbox 360 commercial. I think my favorite part is the guy with the cell phone in the car.

Should all men be treated as paedophiles by default? Some airlines appear to think so. more inside

I'll trade you one Bible for three Jenna Jamesons.

Magic: The Assault or: Why I Won't Be Attending the Tournament This Year. more inside

You've always wanted to, and now you can. Write your name in Elvish. more inside

Bomb-sniffing wasps? Researchers have developed a way to quickly train wasps to detect odors. A more crucial development, the Wasp Hound, lets them know when the wasps actually smell something (since it's really hard to tell otherwise).

No Hos this Christmas! No lap sitting or sweet sucking either! more inside

Robert Frisk, veteran mideast correspondant for the BBC, speaks with Toronto's Now Magazine about what's really going on in Iraq. Among other things, he critizes 'hotel journalists' who are credited with first-hand account because they're in Baghdad when a car bomb blows up, though they don't risk stepping out to survey the damage or interview witnesses. more inside

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