A very compelling shower scene - yes, it's an advertisement, but such a seductively beautiful bit of video. Directed by Bruno Aveillan of Short-Films, as Anne at Ample Sanity informs us. Possibly nsfw if rippling six-packs, glistening pecs and steamy titanium offend.

Monkey Love. I've been absent for awhile, but I saw this and thought of you, MonkeyFilter. Happy Valentine's Day

Fast Food: Ads vs. Reality This a lot like my self-image vs. what I actually see in the mirror in the morning.

A look into Cookie Monster's mind Cookie Monster interviewed on NPR, including a variation of Proust's famous questionnaire. (via MetaChat)

Mathematically Challenged George . Fellow simians, I need at least twenty monkeys to answer a simple survey question to complete the take-home part of my math exam. After I correlate your answers, I'll post a copy of the lovely three color Venn diagram I intend to draw to illustrate this information. As an additional incentive, I will also post my exam grade when completed. Please, Monkeys, can you hope me? more inside

Sleeveface! 1. Take a record sleeve 2. Put it where your face is (youtube) 3. Take a picture and upload it to the intarwebs 4. !!!!

Man destroys Stradivarius in a fit of slapstick.

"Do you want our Chinese women? We can give you ten million." What a cheeky old crackpot the late Chairman was. "Mao continued, 'By doing so we can let them flood your country with disaster and therefore impair your interests. In our country we have too many women, and they have a way of doing things.They give birth to children and our children are too many.'"

A 1913 article about the brand spanking new and shiny Panama Canal. Currently the canal is being widened, because the Panamax supertankers, built especially to maximise tonnage while using the Panama Canal, just aren't big enough any more. The expansion will double the canal's capacity, which is currently 14,000 vessels annually.

Where can Miggi get some monkey underpants? Proper monkey ones with a hole for his tail, but nice and snug all the same?

How To Make a Real-Looking Ghost

Top 10 Strangest Things in Space

Debunking Latest Anti-Pot Quack Science - 'Marijuana Makes Your Teeth Fall Out' and other nonsense.

The Squidbrains at Squdoo steal MonkeyFilter's identity and MetaFilter's content... "HEY MONKEYBRAIN" is a place to make arguments. Mmmm-kay... Explanation attempted here. Still, Monty Python did it better.

John McCain: Yes We Can! [Via]

Pieter Hugo takes passport-style photos of South Africans whether black, white or albino. More of his work is available on his own website. I love his "The Hyena & Other Men" series.

Roy Scheider dead at 75. Jaws, French Connection, Naked Lunch, 2010, Klute, Marathon Man...

$0.00 Airbrush = Metacafe Flash video

Anal Sex Fatwa ~~ "Allah will not look at a man who has anal sex with his wife." more inside

Discovery backs theory oil not 'fossil fuel' - A study published in Science Magazine presents new evidence supporting the abiotic theory for the origin of oil, which asserts oil is a natural product that the Earth generates naturally. more inside