What Can You Say About Art Covered Manhole Covers?

Carpet Sans Ecocide. The world's largest commercial carpet manufacturer in the world, Interface, has dedicated itself to finding sustainable ways of doing business. The results so far are encouraging. more inside

Holistic Hooping.

Meet Spud and his vegetably-challenged pals more inside

Tourist George - Opinions on Luggage Hi all. This is kind of a boring topic, but I am shopping for a couple of high quality pieces of luggage and thought that you monkeys, being the intelligent primates that you are, would have real world experience with the aforementioned gear. more inside

talk about taint: those in between places brought to you by the nonist and look, they've got brains and art *sigh*

Jazz Guitar Primer

Curious George: Help me find these songs... This has been bugging me for a while, and I just can't find the answer... more inside

Fifty Writing Tools If you are a writer, or an aspiring writer, you might benefit from some of these tips. Although sometimes geared towards journalism only, most are generic enough for everyone. I'm hoping they will help me.

Curious George: Learning Vacations Any monkeys been on any learning vacations? Like this one for book-lovers or this for gourmet cooks and um, even something for those who are into moose photography or ukeleles . How about picking one randomly from this 100 page (PDF) catalog at Chautauqua, the grand-daddy of summer course madness. more inside

Resources for the budding Mycophagist/logist. Also don't miss Tom Volk's Fungi! Well, probably not his own. Um.

Prelude to Journey to the Center of the Earth. Next month, Japanese scientists plan to start drilling 4.3 miles (7 km) under the ocean floor to reach the Earth's mantle. The effort, as part of an international drilling research program, hopes to not only recover core samples but also to find exotic bacteria. The project promises to overshadow Mohole, a similar effort that consumed $36 million in the early 1960s and fell far short of expectations.

The History behind Billy Joel's "We didn't start the Fire" - finally, we can all know what "British Politician Sex" means, whether we want to or not. more inside

http://www.epicurious.com/recipes/recipe_views/views/101577 The perfect thing for a summer evening, when you don't want to heat up the kitchen! The first one and this one use the traditional chick-peas and lemon juice; the third one uses black beans and lime juice. They're all divine.

Pinatas! Is it wrong to love pinatas as a "grown-up?" Some silliness for the weekend. more inside

Flaming Fire Illustrated Bible Our goal is to illustrate the entire bible verse-by-verse one illustration per verse. We plan to enlist artists and illustrators from all over the world— including you! View it your way.

What Does the Fungus Know That You Don't? An experiment.

Europe's oldest civilisation discovered: "a network of dozens of temples, 2,000 years older than Stonehenge and the Pyramids" spread across sites in what are now Germany, Austria and Slovakia.

Fractals. Also, a 3d fractal generator more inside

My Space Journal of a 16 Year Old Gay Kid. He came out to his parents. They being a certain kind of evangelical christians, sent him to a treatment facility, he posted the rules before he went.