Curious George: Office Politics for Dummies You get a new job, and make your first mistake in the office. It's difficult to assess if it was a major mistake or not, because instead of rationally discussing it with you, your new boss sends you a very nasty email, and copies 2 higher-ups on it. What do you do? more inside

Collecting

Meet Python Pete and his incredibly large constrictor. "He's another tool in our toolbox." Completely SFW.

How much do the good people of Island Records despise their cash cows and themselves? more inside

Hunter S. Thompson's ashes to be shot out of a cannon If the Thompson job were his, Williams said, he would probably blast the ashes from a 12-inch-diameter mortar 800 feet into the sky. Then a second, window-rattling blast would scatter them amid a blossom of color 600 feet across. "If you were going to light up a flash-bomb worthy of Hunter S. Thompson, you'd want to make it an earth-shaker," Williams said.

Einstein@Home Einstein@home is a program that uses your computer's idle time to search for spinning neutron stars (also called pulsars) using data from the LIGO and GEO gravitational wave detectors. more inside

300 Love Letters I'm writing three hundred love letters and sending them to strangers. The letters are going to be glued to the outside of the envelopes, so that the mailman, and presumably whoever the recipient lives with, will be able to see and read them. The letters aren't to the strangers, they're to people I know. Everybody I wrote a letter to has his or her own color [1] [2] [3]

Common errors in English. Can never remember whether it's imply or infer? Love to be a nit-picking pedant? Then this is the site for you. Detailed explanations of common mistakes people make when dealing with the English Language.

Oldskool new school more inside

/lazy This cartoon sums it up best. Now you can order pizza while playing Everquest II. more inside

A Flash animation sketching the female body from the skeleton out. (Might be NSFW if you consider a few seconds of drawn female nudity to be so.)

Last moments of Tsnuami victims caught by camera. A local (Vancouver, Canada) couple went missing during the tragedy and were later found dead. Recently, the memory card from their wrecked digital camera was found by a relief worker, from Seattle. The card contains pictures of the last moments before the tsnuami hit Thailand. If there is a sliver lining in this story, it's that their sons know they were together at the end. more inside

New iPods! you will get your credit card...you will spend your money...Steve Jobs is your lord and master...

California Croonin'

The Financial Cost of the Iraq War Curious George - what does 200 BILLION dollars buy in a war? more inside

Fifty Word Fiction. Prose fiction's answer to haiku, perhaps. Stories told in fifty words. The ADHD version of nanowrimojoflobloho. Now, ladies and gentlemonkeys, get to work. Tell me a story. more inside

That ball was out!

The Day After Tomorrow. Exactly how do John & Terry afford that $600K mortgage, SUV, big-screen TV, and pool on a modest salary? And how do they weather a hypothetical domino effect where the U.S., plagued by consumer credit and offshoring of jobs, soars into economic ruin? more inside

The forgettable and occasionally regrettable. Ever wanted to know where the substitute republican elector from Maine in 1840 was buried? Of course you did!!! more inside

Calling creative minds! Boss turns 40 tomorrow, and admin asked me to create a list of "appointments" that she could post to his electronic calendar. I need some creative ideas to add to my short list... note, boss has good sense of humor (not easily offended), but he *is* the fella who pays us. Monkeys?