Adventure Time - a charming childrens cartoon (youtube)

Monkey Salon Saw this, thought of you guys. Some neat stuff in the galleries, though for some reason my links keep getting munged in preview, so I'll let you find them yourselves.

Curious George: rebound or real? How can you tell if your shiny new relationship is everything you think it is? more inside

Curious George: Charging for freelance writing? I do occasional work as a music critic and interviewer for a few street press mags and papers in Australia. I've been asked to put together a company profile for some small time promoters, but I'm not sure how much I should be charging. I've written a press release for them in the past and woefully underquoted them ($30AUD) for the amount of time and headache it took. They ended up giving me $30 plus tickets to a concert, and bus fare for myself and my partner to attend. All up that would have cost them about $230-250. Can anyone offer some practical advice on what a standard charge would be in this situation? My friend has suggested charging them $300 but this sounds a bit pushy to me. Also, it's my first post, eek.

Trainwrecks Wrecked That cute little cesspool of gossip and mockery trainwrecks.net has apparently shut itself down at the behest of its ISP after considerable harassment by members of rival site Heaven Nose (nsfw text). But Heaven Nose claims they started the war against Trainwrecks just for fun. Oh, Internet drama... a force whose power is eclipsed only by its uncontrollability.

Matt Damon to be the next Kirk? Damon may be slated to play the young Captain Kirk in the upcoming "prequel". more inside

Another Sad Day in Iraq 85 More dead. Students most of them. I am speechless. When will it stop?

Dangerously addictive flash game. Tower Defense.
Some strategic advice courtesy of mefi.

FDLS Here's some news from the Fundamentalist Mormons. And some more. more inside

The Edge project (Flash) of the Zoological Society of London has produced a prioritised list of endangered animals, based on how unusual and how threatened they are. You might want to browse the top 100. I'm afraid I may have nightmares about the Malagasy Giant Jumping Rat.

Lady bug versus Spider

Happy MLK Day Audio of Martin Luther King speech from 1965 at Temple Israel in Hollywood. Special treat for American monkeys on MLK day (which it still happens to be over here). Enjoy. via Good

*slings girl and runs*

RandomWebsite.Com! How often do you find yourself on the internet looking at the same boring pages? You know there is something out there but you don't know where to look!!

Suck it up! more inside

Manakins are small jungle birds whose males make clicking and humming noises with their wings as part of an elaborate courtship ritual. But it's their smokin' dance moves that really get the ladies.

The UK is 300 years old on 16 January. The signature of the Act of Union was commemorated at the time by the planting of some trees which still survive. Nothing much by way of celebration seems to have been planned this time round, apart from a commemorative £2 coin. The Union may not, in fact, survive much longer, as support for Scottish independence slowly grows.Gordon Brown has been trying to combat the drift towards separation, but a recent poll showed 52% of Scots in favour of independence. 59% of English voters were in favour.

Transforming sewage sludge into Milorganite fertilizer Solar energy would provide nearly all of the electrical power needed to transform sewage sludge into Milorganite fertilizer at the Jones Island wastewater treatment plant, under a proposal by the Milwaukee Metropolitan Sewerage District. The Milorganite plant would become nearly 100% self-sufficient for electrical needs, depending on cloud cover, if the solar panels are installed,

How NSA Access was built into Windows A MS Windows computer's security and encryption software is controlled by a program that has two keys. One is Microsoft's and another for the US National Security Agency. Anyone previously heard of this?

Anti Cancer Drugs to be produced from eggs laid by genetically modified Chickens. more inside