Don't you know you're gonna mock the monkey? Weird Al is a personal favorite of mine, and his version of "You're Beautiful" by James Blunt [W: auto-loading audio] was not approved for release by Blunt's label, so Al's letting you have it for free on his site [mp3]. This reminds me of when Coolio [W: auto-loading audio] got his panties in a wad over how Al treated his very profound "Gangsta's Paradise" with a parody of the Amish lifestyle (which is friggin' genius, if you ask me). more inside

Curious George - The Great Dictator? Pugnacious Pundit Bill O'Reilly would fix things in Iraq by reinstating acting like Saddam. Quote: "That's me. President O'Reilly, curfew in Ramadi, 7 o'clock at night. You're on the street, you're dead. I shoot you right between the eyes. OK? That's how I'd run that country -- just like Saddam ran it. Saddam didn't have explosions. He didn't have bombers, did he? Because if you got out of line, you're dead." What would you do if given free reign? (In Iraq or Monkistan?)

Daniel McGowan is one of 14 people apprehended between December and March 2006 as part of Operation Backfire. more inside

Hockey is the greatest sport of all, according to Canada's National Post columnist Andrew Coyne. Better than the top quality football/soccer? Rugby? Aussie Rules? In an era when Celebrity Poker occupies a prime spot on weekend TV programming, and even RPS getting better exposure in the US, is this belief true, misguided, or just wrong? (warnings - it is a National Post article / lots of flash / slow loading / poor layout)

Sums Solve Space-Station Scrape more inside

The Fate of Greenland's Vikings Archaeological excavations of the settlement founded by Erik the Red in the 14th century. Not a happy ending. (Via anastasiav.) more inside

Connie Chung blows up. WTF?! A bit of mid-week wackiness to make you feel well adjusted. [YouTube] more inside

Curious George: Do any other daily comics do this?...Watch their faces. more inside

Big, Bad Bessie with the M-I-L-K Which spells, as you know, WRONG. Quicktime direct link here. more inside

*Which* Ten Commandments? - As the myth relates, Moses smashed the tables of stone, and God said he'd make a new set of tables containing "the words that were on the first" Exodus 34:1. However, the second Ten Commandments in no way resemble the first set. more inside

Bear eats porridge. No news on cross-dressing wolf.

Fliiiiip, Floooop Frank Luntz, author of the "The Environment: A Cleaner Safer, Healthier America" memo that has formed Bush Policy changes his mind. Woopsie. Memo in PDF here :http://www.luntzspeak.com/graphics/LuntzResearch.Memo.pdf more inside

Evangelical evolution. "The mellowing of evangelical Christianity may well be the big American religious story of this decade."

For that special goth in your life: strange doll (the shadow boxes look like something out of Se7en)

Curious George What <i>do</i> I do? Curious George What the heck do I do for a living? more inside

RFX Jr. To Take Another Swat At The Empire Maybe you read the Rolling Stone article that generated 2.5 times as many emails than any other RS story. Now that rascally attorney is taking it a step further. Go RFK! Go! more inside

Curious Musical Monkey Filter Famous Scrawls? more inside

SavetheInternet.com is trying to "preserve Network Neutrality, the First Amendment for the Internet that ensures that the Internet remains open to innovation and progress."

Donald Hall Is the NewUS Poet Laureate via stupid smelly GarbageFilter, but, like, I totally thought of it too eh more inside

John Heartfield's photomontage is on show at the Getty. A prominent Dadaist, he changed his name from Helmut Herzfelde as a protest against German nationalism in WWI, and produced a stream of striking anti-Nazi images. More here and here, and a bio plus quotes here.