Battery-Powered Jesus Rejected! . . as an appropriate toy by the excellent Toys for Tots organization. more inside

Is there a secret meaning to your name? Surnames (last name) can be found there as well. Apparently, my ancestors were not born serfs or slaves. So, what's the secret meaning of your name? more inside

World Usability Day - - That's right monkeys, its time to make use of yourself. . .

New York City has plans to allow people to choose their gender. more inside

OMENTUM URL is to page on Oprah's site which is devoted to the show wherein Dr. Oz says there's an organ inside all of us that plays a key role in making us fat—the omentum. "This organ literally pumps chemicals into your body and it holds the secrets … to los[ing] weight."

Thanks For the Mammaries We all know how scatterbrained breast-feeding mothers can be. Now they don't have to remember which breast their infant suckled at last! more inside

Driver distraction. With a tiger, no less. Tiger pelt rugs! (Not really, but quite lovely.) more inside

Can you teach a gorilla to be a gorilla? This woman is a gorilla mentor in a zoo. But, she doesn't bite toenails.

Visual Recipes - recipes with step-by-step photos, contributed by the site members. (They take requests for specific recipes in their forum, too.)

Pictures from Reuters, some of five hundred on the 'state of the world'. Here's Reuters' 2006 award winners (some overlap).

Christiania , Denmark is an "unparalleled example of human entrepreneurship and innovative spirit." Since it was founded in 1971 it has had controversies, usually involving its liberal attitude to soft drugs, leading to opposition and ultimately, regulation. I saw this on BBC news and wondered if Monkeys had ever heard of it.

An old favorite - mostly because I don't want to work hard to post today.

On terrorism. New York Review of Books piece on teh terra. Good reading. One of the books cited in the piece, on the response of Iraqis to the war in Iraq: "They find the claims that the United States is occupying Iraq to defend New York and deploying an army to import democracy to be so implausible that they do not believe them. Instead, they believe the claims of those who say the US Army is a self-interested army of occupation interested only in dominating the region and exploiting its oil wealth... In effect, they find al-Qaeda's propaganda more credible than ours." more inside

Brain Maps

What? No Mongolian Milk Vodka!? 22 things you can't get in the U.S. Thank God.

BARFWorld. Actually, it probably is what you think. And it includes the BARF Diet!

Hi tech T-shirt really rocks It's called the WIS - the Wearable Instrument Shirt - and it is tipped to make the air guitar as obsolete as the horse and cart.

China sub stalked U.S. fleet - A Chinese submarine stalked a U.S. aircraft carrier battle group in the Pacific last month and surfaced within firing range of its torpedoes and missiles before being detected.