Curious George: Webtrends New to this program and my reports won't run. more inside

Curious George: Organizing my bookmarks. Any good programs (Win) out there that will help me maintain a succinct, nicely-formatted HTML link list with comments? Firefox bookmarks aren't very usable for me. Non-bloatware is a plus.

Clone a new generation of disease free children.

Bad Science. A complete archive of the "serious fuck-off academic ninja" Dr. Ben Goldacre's Bad Science column, which collects the week's best, um, bad science.

Google FEMA - I was reading the story about the denied low wattage radio station in the Astrodome and wondering about the rumors that FEMA has barred the media from photographing the dead. So I Googled up FEMA history and found this and this, and thought I could have more inside

Flying Spaghetti Monster - The Game In this game, you are the FSM and you must convert as many people into Pastafarians as you can before time runs out by deploying your noodly appendage. Watch out for the darkly clad school administrators! Requires FLASH more inside

Curious Fearful George Advice, opinion and calming words of comfort sought in advance of (shudder) my first root canal. more inside

Anarchists' election video outrages Germans The Anarchist Pogo Party of Germany has épateéed les bourgeois with a rather silly election video. more inside

Even white preachaz gotta shout. (link contains streaming video, jesus)

Curious Dashboard: Help create a supermonkey naptime widget. It's a gift for a friend. The strange thing is that she is not even aware of MoFi, the combination of monkey/bananas/pancakes came purely from her own imagination. more inside

Batter 'em Once again with another Carcharodon carcharias attack near Port Lincoln in South Australia, the question has been raised Kill or be killed. Technically the Great White Shark is an endangered species. So a surfer gets bitten. And once again people rush out with their harpoons to catch the shark in question. Do creatures who nibble on humans deserve to be killed? more inside

Violence in New Orleans? A week after the chaos began, how many of those widely reported incidents of child-rape, murder and mayhem have been substantiated? more inside

Curious George: hosting evacuees I'm hosting a couple from New Orleans in my home for an indefinite period of time, starting tonight. Although unable to go back to confirm it right now, from news reports they're sure they've lost everything. Any creative ideas on how to provide a comfortable and welcoming place to stay? more inside

Yahoo! Grasses! Chinese! Writer! Watch those Flickr comments, peeps...

Joss Whedon on How He Wouldn't Have Made "X-Men 3" The "Buffy" creator talks about his near-miss as an X-director as well as his new flick "Serenity."

Curious George - Who's on dial-up? I'm just sort of..."curious" about how many mofites are still on dial up. This thread got me thinking. So, r-u dial up or broadband my monkeys?

Austin Meetup : MoFites Unite! The Fall Meetup is in two weeks (Sept. 20 - 8pm@The Dog and Duck). Prepare to be there ... Bring friends! Bring family! Hell, bring MeFites! The more the merrier! Those LA Monkeys are only up on us by about 15-20 meetups so we gotta work fast! more inside

Dodging a Bullet On Sunday's Meet the Press, Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff said "I remember on Tuesday morning picking up newspapers and I saw headlines, 'New Orleans Dodged The Bullet.'" In a press conference today, "The headline, of course, in most of the papers on Tuesday--'New Orleans Dodged a Bullet,' or words to that effect." None of these papers have that headline. Does the government rely only on the Grenada, Mississippi Daily Star for its information?

Watch it shred A movie gallery of actual shredding; from the ordinary but tough, to the surprising.

Sayonara, Little Buddy Gilligan has just left the building.