Curious George: Papa needs a brand new bag Just picked up a new laptop, need a new carrying case to go with it. more inside

Curious George, Westminster! Any dog lovers out there watch the Academy Awards of the canine world Monday and Tuesday nights? Sweetie and I flew up to see it in person. Coolest detail: They hawk champagne in the stands! Guys come around yelling, CHAMPAGNE! CHAMPAGNE! and offer up little plastic glassesful. Heh. How very... Westminster.

Camion cartoons a kind of follow-up to the interesting images posted by dj a couple of days ago: letters home (with cartoons) from Kirkland H Day, a member of an American camion unit in 1918. A bit of a contrast with the postcards my own grandad sent home, which generally read: "Hoping this finds you as it leaves me, in the pink". Occasionally (at times of special emotional stress?) he would add "Send fags."

Straight Outta Compton (mp3) by Nina Gordon Just the best gangsta cover I've ever heard. That is all.

They Fight Crime , Arab style. Jalila, Zein, Aya and Rakan are superheroes from the land that invented comics 4000 years ago (well, hieroglyphs, anyway.) (Top link to WashPost, reg. req.) more inside

Schmuck Interviews Putz Warning: NSFWIYBUYBHNSOH (Not Safe For Work If Your Boss Understands Yiddish But Has No Sense Of Humor)

Who elected the Pentagon as Mayor of CRAZYTOWN ? NY Times reg req'd, so bugmenot will help. more inside

Discover the network. David Horowitz's "Guide to the Political Left. It identifies the individuals and organizations that make up the left and also the institutions that fund and sustain it." more inside

Are you a spy? Poles have been logging on to the internet in record numbers this week after a journalist accidentally posted the names of tens of thousands of Communist-era police informers on a website.

Who's old now? With 40 year-old hipsters kickin' it with tha kiddies, is anybody old? Will age still matter in ten years? more inside

ChoicePoint: Criminals posing as legitimate businesses have accessed critical personal data stored by ChoicePoint Inc., a firm that maintains databases of background information on virtually every U.S. citizen. ChoicePoint warns more than 30,000 they may be at risk. Oopsie! Oh, and ChoicePoint was also the company that was paid $4 mil. in a no-bid contract from Florida's Katherine Harris to draw up felon rolls before the 2000 election. Discussed here.

The ALLERCA Foundation "is dedicated to preserving endangered animal species through the use of current and future genetic technologies" such as DNA banking... but there seems to be a profit-driven angle involving hypo-allergenic kitties as well. Veterinarians will have to pony up $1,000 per year to be licensed to "OK" the cats after they're shipped by Allerca. more inside

acid trip Gumby cartoons ---made by the art collective PaperRad in Providence, RI.

Gregory Jacobsen NIGHTMARE FUNTIME ART! Bosch crossed with dripping cotton candy served on a radiantly broiled hank. odd paintings!

Captain Underpants Create your own comic

100 Movies that deserve more love. more inside

1,000,000 (DRM-Free) Songs In Your Pocket A theoretical look at how one might use Winamp to fill 252 CD's via Napster's 14 day trial period. Via Boing Boing more inside

The naughtiest (and possibly NSFW-est) games of all time. more inside

Tassili N'Ajjer, a plateau in the Sahara, has thousands of curious rock paintings. More pictures here and here. Also a video. (Not worth it if you're on dial-up). Some of the pictures, it is argued, are evidence of a prehistoric psychoactive mushroom cult. Tassili is on the World Heritage List, but in spite of their isolation the paintings are becoming increasingly subject to vandalism and theft.

Pro-ana girls attack Museum of Hoaxes A forum post about whether a pro-anorexia websites are real attracts pro-ana kids to the fascinating Museum of Hoaxes, spawning six pages of uninformed debate, eating disorders, cutters crying for help, tirades on American cuisine, bad spelling, unpredictable capitalization, and at least one reference to Nazism. A fascinating glimpse into the very strange world of pro-ana subculture (some images NSFW). more inside