The Collected Image

A quiver of cobras and a charm of hummingbirds.

Curious George: has anyone here had their bank account tapped? [More inside] more inside

Bikes against Bush [Oh no, not another anti-Bush link.] Josh Kinberg, the same guy who brought us the wireless access bike has built another cunning human powered device. During the Republican Convention he will officially roll out the new bike. For know he just loves New York. [2 MB QT] (also available in Real Video.) Can you imagine a whole slew of these bikes driving through NY? Followed by Republican cleaner squads? I hope he doesn't get arrested. Here is an interview with Josh Kinberg, "Profile of a wireless activist".

Ordering pizza in a surveillance society. [Flash, via Crooked Timber.]

Kerrang magazine appoints Satan as the #2 most important person in Rock.
#10 is Avril Lavigne. more inside

Is President Bush a Homo? Betty Bowers seems to think so. more inside

Haunted rubberduck for sale. more inside

Lightning Break Snooker (zip file containing a flash game) more inside

The Parking Meter Fairy has a lavender-coloured tutu, a pink curly wig, his name is Xavier, and he wears a mask. Plus he rollerblades. And you thought your job was tough. more inside

past life? So I was a Hungry Executioner. Thats scarey. more inside

Setting the tone I really don't have the first idea if this is true or false, but the link alleges that new Iraqi PM Allawi shot six prisoners in the head shortly before assuming power. more inside

Are you safe? Even in small doses this substance can harm, even kill. And yet it's a main ingredient in baby food.

Saltacol is a lovely Flash game that I posted here in the early days. I wish there was more imagination and creativity like this in the world of Flash games. Have any other monkeys found games "like" this that you recommend? I hope more recent MoFites will enjoy Saltacol. Be warned: it is frustrating and addictive and might take a while to solve. Kind of like The Chasm...

Discussing Disgust. On the folly of gross-out public policy. An interview with Martha Nussbaum. more inside

Have you ever wondered what a number (or other mathematical object) is? Many philosophers and mathematicians have wondered this same thing. (Don't miss the second link, great glossary!) Plato thought they were eternal forms beyond the physical world. Frege thought they were logical constructions. Formalism was promising but famously disproved by Gödel's Incompleteness Proof. There are also, if you can understand them, the intuitionists. more inside

The OTHER Meetup Calling all West Coast Monkeys! more inside

Peter Pan [No more inside]

I Want A Pony: Venerable MonkeyBashi - can we keep the sidebar links longer than 24 hours? more inside

Cameron Diaz Vs Fleshbot According to Wired News, Cameron Diaz's attorneys wrote a cease and desist letter to Nick Denton. Diaz's attorneys want Fleshbot (NSFW) to take down a post and link to a softcore video made during Diaz's salad days. The video features "The video features Diaz topless and in fishnets. She and a leather-clad model named Natasha are vamping it up in a bondage scene with a chained man wearing nothing but a loose-fitting loincloth. At one point, the twosome toy with their male "slave," making him wear a black leather bondage mask and pretending to subjugate him." Denton probably loves the controversy. Of course, there are the rumors that Ana Marie Cox will be in Playboy.