Monkey escapes zoo, tries to flee on speed boat. more inside

Hello. Hello. How Low. Kurt Cobain Signature Chuck Taylor All-Star Shoes! Wow! Some call it a black spot on whatever. But he always did admire John Lennon. more inside

When Candy Design Goes Wrong - Gummi Lighthouses. I don't need to say anything.

Goodbye Little Russ I liked this man. He is pretty much irreplaceable.

Censorship as Art. BPA (Fat Boy Slim) with David Byrne, performing "Toe Jam." Single YouTube Link.

A piglet on a farm in northern England has conquered its "fear of mud" with a set of miniature gumboots. Pig in boots (video & article). BBC version (with vid). The Mirror is there too. more inside

The Vatican goes Broadway! The Vatican is staging its first ever musical next week, a dramatisation of the life of the Virgin Mary. more inside

Breakfast breads baked for bread baking day. Brioches (what is the plural of brioche anyway?), crumpets, cinnamon rolls - yum. Bookmarked.

Website peddles racially-charged ‘Sock Obama’ toy.

It's some sort of natural disaster epidemic of late. Thinking of any Iowan Monkeys or their relatives. Let's hope this isn't another New Orleans, eh?

On a Monday morning last month highway patrol officers visited 20 classrooms at El Camino High School to announce some horrible news: Several students had been killed in car wrecks over the weekend. But wait...there's more...

Lawson Wood - The Monkey Painter

There's a model shortage in New York. There's a stripper shortage in Toronto. Good-looking immigrants get to jump the queue?

The 7 Deadly Sins. Interpreted as wine glasses. I love pride.

Mom sends kid to school wearing a swastika, now trying to get her kids back. [The mother] says she's not a neo-Nazi, just proud of her northern European heritage.

The Bikini Effect. Your beach wear is making me want Burger King. Trufax.

Sudoku in the court - a trial run. A drug trial has been aborted after three months when the some of the jury admitted to doing Sudoku rather than paying attention. The judge had previously complimented them on their copious notetaking, apparently not noticing that they were writing up and down as well as side to side.

The Directory of Open Access Journals is a portal to 3416 free, full text, peer-reviewed scientific and scholarly journals. Talk about the weather, dig some prehistory, learn why making websites isn't computer science. Learn how to build an aqueduct or a bridge. more inside

Little black notebooks. And some pens. And more notebooks.

Really Really REALLY Good News . Critter news is good news! more inside