Baby Hot Cakes! Ever seen a cake made of 120 diapers? "Have your cake and wear it too."

The risks ahead for the world economy: Fred Bergsten, Director of the Institute for International Economics, says that the way things are going, we're going to see a 20% drop in the value of the dollar. Paul Volker, formerly of the Fed, says there's a 75% chance of a big drop in the next 5 years. Curious George: how can anyone with the least business sense possibly vote for Bush?

Hand Shadows To Be Thrown Upon The Wall - by Henry Bursill, 1859. Courtesy of Project Gutenberg. Nicked from Incoming Signals

Arrrr, matey! Just a reminder that today is a special day.

How much money are you making sitting on the loo? Toilet humour (obviously). more inside

It's not as though beer drinking weren't demanding enough on the bladder, there's a new German device which orders men to sit down before they pissen. It must be a humbling experience, given that the word for guys who sit while doing that is "Sitzpinkler", i.e., "wimp." "Hey, stand-peeing is not allowed here and will be punished with fines, so if you don't want any trouble, you'd best sit down," one of the devices orders in a voice impersonating the German leader, Chancellor Gerhard Schroder. If nothing else it's a victory for German feminism. more inside

Pen and ink portraits by Dave Archambault I think my stick men need some more work...

The Primate Cognitive Neuroscience Laboratory at Harvard University. Note the morph in the top right corner. [Via Boing Boing.]

Tim Ware's site of Pynchonalia "Time to gather your arse up off the floor, (have a bana-na) Brush your teeth and go toddling off to war. Wave your hand to sleepy land, Kiss those dreams away, Tell Miss Grable you're not able, Not till V-E Day, oh, Ev'rything'll be grand in Civvie Street (have a bana-na) Bubbly wine and girls wiv lips so sweet-- But there's still the German or two to fight, So show us a smile that's shiny bright, And then, as we may have suggested once before-- Gather yer blooming arse up off the floor!"

Let's Hear It For the Liberal Media Via Left I On The News: I had to had at how Chris O'Brien of the San Jose Mercury News wrote this piece that reads like it came out of Karl Rove's office.

Silicon Valley's unemployment rate fell nearly a full percentage point to 5.5 percent in August. Yet the valley also lost 1,500 jobs.

It gets bad when you can't tell the difference between real news and The Daily Shows

Curious George: December fun? In light of the doubly successful MoFi CD Swap, I've been thinking about other fun forms of monkey interaction via snail mail. So I'm throwing this out there - would anyone be interested in a secret santa? more inside

Curious George Sockherding: Following on Nostril's post a couple of weeks ago, which I just stumbled across, I thought I would share my sockherding technique -- use large safety-pins to keep all sock pairs together when washing. I noticed that everyone complained about missing socks, but no one had any creative suggestions on how to avoid this problem. Does anyone have any other solutions like mine?

I have no words. I have a bunch of words. more inside

All Hail the Iron Penis! Taiwanese Kungfu Master Tu Jin-Sheng is famous for pulling heavy objects with his...talent. He's not only gifted, he's my neighbor. Ironically, SFW.

SlapMan - slap the living shit out of this little French bastard. Try and slap him really fast to get a high score. FLASH game - full screen - WARNING: contains Baby Elephant Walk more inside

How to pick up and carry your iMac G5 Now I know...

The map of all Julia sets... The optical illusions page a couple posts back reminded me of this really nice and colorfull mandelbrot set program you can download for free. So much information in such a compact equation...

Curious George: Spyware prevention I am wondering if you monkeys know of a good Win2K app that will aggressively prevent backdoor registry changes, startup changes, and software installs. Even though I have the latest AdAware + defs, don't use IE, and scrutinize my task manager and startup files, I'm still getting stuff sneaking in. I can't seem to pin anything down on Google... too much noise and untrustworthy content.

My Head is Going to 'Splode!!!! Optical Illusions that make your eyes go crazy and doubt your sanity! more inside

Aww...isn't he a darling? Seeing that it's Friday afternoon and i'm bored shitless, i thought i'd while away the afternoon by sharing with you baby pictures of my fellow mofites Tracicle Quidnunc Shotsy Nostrildamus BlueHorse Quonset/Quonsar Pete_best F8xmulder and Rogerd [more inside] more inside