On NSA Spying: A Letter to Congress Fifteen constitutional scholars and former government officials express their concerns regarding the administration's warrantless electronic surveillance program. Be warned, this is a long article. (Short version: they're against it.)

Get a monkey a day from the Daily Monkey! -- Via more inside

Chewbacca's got a blog. Is there anyone left who doesn't have a blog? I bet even your cat has a blog.

Got your suit on? don't tell me everyone here is ignoring our national holiday....

Control your banana habit with Virtual Hypnotist. Free and open source! Via FmH more inside

Does my ass look fat in these pants?

Oscar Nominations are out. Of course, they're teh suck. Feel free to discuss/criticize, in a spoiler-rich environment. more inside

As mothninja says Have at it.

The 30 Most Spoken Languages in the World I guess it shouldn't be surprising that Spanish is now the second-most common and English is down to third. Should it?

Part two of the idiotic videos feature on monkeyfilter - 8bithuffers-ns.avi. The best combination of amatuerism, inventiveness, being in the midwest, and having a true comic gift. And Ray Parker (composer of the theme from Ghostbusters).