Curious George wants to ask about you and Bob. What's your Bob Dylan story? more inside

Dan’s Auto & Truck Parts - For all your baby otter repairs. Baby otters have a weekend break. With vid.

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Thought Police no longer fiction Google must divulge the viewing habits of every user who has ever watched any video on YouTube, a US court has ruled. Thank goodness I have nothing to worry about- oh, wait!

11 Best Foods You Aren't Eating. Really long NYT article with technical lingo on what foods we should be eating for better health. To save you time, I've condensed the list. Presented without further editorial comment: 1. Motherfuckin' beets. 2. Cabbage. 3. Swiss chard: They protect the Pope and are also green and leafy. 4. Cinnamon: Sometimes spelled cinammon. 5. Pomegranate juice: A type of juice. 6. Dried Plums. The food previously known as pruny prune-faced prune fruit. 7. Pumpkin seeds: These are packed with magnesium. Also available in .44 hollow point. 8. Sardines: Mash them up, use as a spread or as figurines. 9. Turmeric: Sounds like tumor. Don't think about that. 10. Frozen blueberries: a.k.a. "tundra testicles" 11. Canned Pumpkin: i see the big-assed can, but where da seeds at?

In a story tailor-made for Monkeyfilter a 42-year-old chimpanzee, who eats with a knife and fork but also occasionally bites bits off people, has gone missing in a southern California forest after escaping from his cage. The owner is the same guy who was hideously mauled a few years ago while bringing the same Chimp a birthday cake (it wasn't the same ape that attacked him). more inside

Metropolis- Complete at Last- Last Tuesday Paula Félix-Didier traveled on a secret mission to Berlin in order to meet with three film experts and editors from ZEITmagazin. The museum director from Buenos Aires had something special in her luggage: a copy of a long version of Fritz Lang’s Metropolis, including scenes believed lost for almost 80 years.

Bonne fête Québec! At about 11 a.m., July 3rd, 1608, French explorer Samuel de Champlain walked up to Cap Diamant, and founded Québec City, before going on to lose his astrolabe and stuff. more inside

Digging a hole to China? Use the Map Tunneling Tool to figure out where you'd really end up if you dug a hole through the Earth's core. Apparently, I'd come out somewhere off the southwest coast of Australia. Antipodean Monkeys, keep watching the waters!

US President tries to reassure survivors.

Christopher Hitchens learns about waterboarding. (second link, video. Video of Christopher Hitchens being waterboarded.)

How much do you love your local public transportation? Not as much as these kids, I'm betting! This made my day.

The Snooze to Destiny Thread. Here's where we can breathlessly await the big day when The Record falls. It will be so exciting!

The Tunguska Mystery 100 Years Later - something over Tunguska went kablammo in 1908 - nobody knows what or why. Might not have been an asteroid, because there's no meteoritic debris - although some suggest Lake Cheko may be an impact crater. more inside

email recall Curious George more inside

Covering Canada: The best, worst and strangest foreign covers of Canadian songs. Happy Canada Day!

Fish School! My officemate got one of these at a conference last week. The best part of the web site is the video. And they have a live streaming FishCam! more inside

Drug Raid at 4AM! Sorta. (NYT) Unemployed truck driver pretends to be federal agent, attempts to recreate Walking Tall and Beverly Hills Cop. City officials go along with it. more inside

A monumental enema. The bronze syringe bulb, which weighs 800 pounds and is held by three angels, was unveiled at the Mashuk-Akva Term spa, the spa's director said Thursday.

Pippi! . Fun game, cute character.