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

Motorcycles and mountains. Twisty mountain roads, motorcycles, and lots of pretty pictures. Bad web design, but nice pictures and stories

Cyrano de Bergerac was real, but not as Rostand depicted him. For one, his nose wasn't that big. He was a successful writer. His most prominent work is now published under the title 'Other Worlds', a collection of stories describing his fictional journeys to the Moon and Sun. Cyrano thus rests alongside such minds as Kepler and Jules Verne in the genre of Science Fiction. But Cyrano as a gay anti-Catholic sci-fi writer with the pox? more inside

Capn Jack Sparrow, Coffee Pirate (YouTube, but worth it)

Capt. Sensible So I got a bad nosebleed tonight, which somehow reminded me of being a punk rocker, which somehow reminded me of the Damned, who I saw in some condemned rathole of a club in Southern California around 1980. Captain Sensible had fun insulting American bands until a boy I was in love with shouted out, "Oh, yeah? MC5!" Whereupon the Captain turned around and said, "Yeah, all right." I liked the Captain for that, and kept up with him. more inside

Curious George: My (Not-So-Golden) Arches The saga begins: I decided recently (like last week) to take part in a women-only duathlon -- 3.5km run, 10km bike, 1.5km run. However, a couple of days after making the decision I sprained my ankle. The duathlon is next month. more inside