The Art and Subversion of Ron English. Ron has been a major player in the New York and worldwide "lowbrow" scene for more than a decade now. His paintings have become his mainstay, but he still makes time to promote a little "parity in advertising". See also his book and documentary. more inside

Mom, Dad, there's a wonderful mammal I want you to meet. Um, woman marries dolphin.

Curious George: Teaching English Overseas: Any monkeys have experience teaching English overseas? more inside

retrievr Draw a picture, and it will find flickr photos that look similar. this just ate hours of my day.

Retouching a magazine cover. [Flash] An explanation of photography retouching produced for the Swedish Ministry of Health and Social Affairs. more inside

Curious George: How long does exposed 35mm film last? A few weeks ago, when clearing out my late father's stuff, I found a metal 35mm film canister. This has a screw cap labelled 'ILFORD Refill - open in darkroom'. I opened it (nothing to lose) and found what appears to be an exposed roll of 35mm film in it's cartridge. I assume it's exposed, because it doesn't have a 'tail' of film hanging out. The film itself is labelled 'ADOX KB 17 PANCHRO 17/10deg DIN, 32 ASA, 28deg SCH.' with a big '20' and 'made in Germany'. I suspect it dates from the early 1960's. What do photograpic MoFites suggest? Is it worth taking it to be developed? Would it be perished and unusable? I know nothing of these (and many other) things.

Time for the nominations for the 2006 Bloogie Awards Anyone you care to nominate?

Tolkien Norse Rip-Off Purity Petition or T.N.R.O.P.P. First is for the states that is the fan of Tolkien who is for the writes of manys and longs as are good of stories which is for the nice and excitings of reads! BUT is the very annoys that is ripping off or as is called STEALING lots or more of Norse legends for is writing. Is the the very angry of the makes of THE DWARF when is readings of the sames in two books.

How to Hunt Deer with a 12 pound Howitzer Cannon

Mercedes Benz back on top!!! (pdf). After a disappointing third place showing in 2004, MB is back again. Thanks to being mentioned 100 times in the lyrics of the top 20 songs in the Billboard chart. more inside

My Outsourced Life. A.J. Jacobs of Esquire outsources increasingly personal tasks to India. more inside

Pupils Being Given 'Patriotism' Tests in Washington State Schools Wow. There's nothing Naziesque about this. "Pay no attention to the man behind the curtain" --Oz.

Save our souls [Flash] [via] more inside

<b>Curious George: Where to buy a monitor?</b> I'm in the market for a 23" CRT computer monitor. Does anyone know a good site for stuff like that? Ideally, I'd like to avoid sales tax and shipping fees.

Windows WMF vulnerability patch is up. It's not official, but it could be a week or more before MS gets its collective thumb out of its collective ass and fixes the problem. Meantime, the consensus seems 100%: this patch is good, it is reversible, and it is necessary. more inside

Voted off the Linguistic Island Okay, the Rose Parade is a day late, the bowl games drag on through Wednesday, but one New Year's tradition is right on time. It's Lake Superior State University's Annual List of Banished Words... more inside

The last Morpheus by Michael Zulli.

Curious George: Song pairs. The link below (We Will Rock You) got me wondering. Which songs are usually played in pairs? The only ones I can think of are We Will Rock You/Champions (Queen) and Tainted Love/Where Did Our Love Go (Soft Cell). There's gotta be others. Google isn't helping on this one.

A google video. This made me smile. I thought other monkeys may get a smile from this video also.

Eating Dust .. .. and another year closer to days of throwing old boots (from one's wheelchair) at those disgustingly cheerful (sans hangovers) young whipper-snappers!