Tom Mankiewicz has died. If you like 70s Bond, you've enjoyed Tom Mankiewicz's work. He wrote "Live and Let Die," and "The Man With the Golden Gun," and "Diamonds Are Forever." Mediageek says it has a version of his script for "Batman." more inside

Arnold Schwarzenegger is gay ... more inside

Tarzan Skills: How to Swim, Dive, Climb, and Swing Like the Lord of the Apes.

Or We Will All Hang Separately.

funny text translator . Original text: "Monkeys love to fling poo. ...50 translations later we get: "Also, in my opinion!" "Or is it...? Original text: Monkeys love to fling poo." ...50 translations later we get: "seduksion monkey."

K-9 PTSD? Some Vets Say Dogs Stressed By War, Too.

Monkeys hate flying squirrels, report monkey-annoyance experts. "Japanese macaques will completely flip out in when presented with a flying squirrel, a new study in monkey-antagonism has found. The research could pave the way for advanced methods of enraging monkeys." [Via]

Has science anything new to say about dreams? Or is Scientific American just trying to capture the audience from INCEPTION?

Gently pulsating circles within circles .. . Andre Michelle's AM Laboratory has plenty of musical toys and special effects to explore. Try Color Traces

The LAST Lost SPOILER The upcoming DVDs include a 12 minute 'coda' about life on The Island with Hurley in charge. Includes SURPRISE APPEARANCE of character not in the Finale.

Translating Stories of Life Forms Etched in Stone. "Many of the creatures found in the fossil record from the time immediately preceding the Cambrian are so unlike modern forms that deciphering what they are and how they lived continues to challenge paleontologists."

Banana Vending Machine in Tokyo in semi-cool semi-annoying '360 panorama' interface so you can see the Coke and Pepsi machines on the opposite wall.

Arcimboldo Riding a Composite Camel. [Via]

A Field Guide to Typestaches I never was happy with "curly bracket" as the name for that punctuation mark. "Typestache" sounds much more fun. Bonus content: The cops in Crime Procedural Universe have Fleshtaches. (Totally.)

Newport (Ymerodraeth State of Mind) (SLYT) If Jay-Z came from a small town in Wales...

In 1947, as he was dying in a Warrnambool hospital, Pooran Singh asked for his ashes to be collected and taken to India, to be scattered in the River Ganges. To respect his wishes, the funeral home in Warrnambool arranged for his body to be sent to the nearest crematorium, in Melbourne, and his ashes returned to Warrnambool to await collection and return to India. In June this year, the story about the still waiting ashes was featured in a SBS broadcast. more inside

Pug sings Batman theme. (SLYT)

$#*! My Town Says A little town in England had a problem with people stealing its sign (probably something to do with its NSFW name). So the town's new sign is carved into a "tonne-and-a-half" stone.
Editorial comment: Good idea, but I wouldn't have picked a stone that was kinda brownish in color...

New Hypothesis for Human Evolution and Human Nature. "It's no secret to any dog-lover or cat-lover that humans have a special connection with animals. But in a new journal article and forthcoming book, paleoanthropologist Pat Shipman of Penn State University argues that this human-animal connection goes well beyond simple affection. Shipman proposes that the interdependency of ancestral humans with other animal species — 'the animal connection' — played a crucial and beneficial role in human evolution over the last 2.6 million years."

Maybe you missed it, but Japan successfully launched the world's first solar sail craft a couple months ago. I know I missed it. I was just looking at Wikipedia for info about solar sails, remembering the disappointment of the Planetary Society's Cosmos 1 in 2005 and thinking that surely they'd tried something since then. I don't know how I missed it, but JAXA has already successfully launched a solar sail to Venus that demonstrated the ability to change attitude by adjusting LEDs on the sail instead of physically tilting the sail. more inside