Worst Luck Ever [via Macphisto]

Swiss National Exhibition Bern 1914. A virtual museum.

Draw Your Boss: The horrors of ms paint and a passive-aggressive hatred of your supervisor.

Night Sky Murals is a process applied to a room of your choice that creates a permanent, realistic, astronomically accurate simulation of a starry night sky in a darkened room. You get to choose the day and time represented.

A Not-entirely Depressing Iraq Story I'm not saying this little tale of a Baghdad gym owner who adores the current governor of California doesn't have disturbing details, but overall, it ain't as grotesquely disturbin' as most of the news we've been getting this week.

Owners DO resemble their dogs!

How India is saving capitalism. "For one Silicon Valley company, hiring Indian programmers wasn't about greed, it was about survival. A special report from Chennai, globalization's ground zero." more inside

The history of April Fool's Day. Many people 'celebrate' April Fool's Day in various ways (most of them annoying). What are some of the better April Fool's pranks you've seen or experienced? more inside

Metafilter hacked? Or just a little April Fool's fun?

While those in the Blue debate Gmail's validity Google has come out with their April Fools Prank 2004. As a bit of a workplace prankster I'm curious about some of my fellow monkey's favorite pranks. Do tell. more inside

Two-in- one yields works unknown to any library! Here booklovers and monkeys who enjoy literary fun and games may encounter the likes of Mason and Moby Dixon [Explorers cross the plains in search of giant mechanical white duck], Watership Down Under the Skin [Australian rabbits, posing as humans, capture hitchhikers and eat them], or Middlemarchsex [Tale of a 19th century provincial village of Greek hermaphrodites], all at I Love Books. via bookslut.com

Curious George: Back in the day I used Adobe Streamline to convert pictures to line art. Is there a more modern tool for acomplishing the same task? more inside

Choose your own iPod adventure
I always read those things with my fingers stuck in between the pages where the story branched until both hands were wound up like a cat's cradle. God I loved those things and all their offshoots. Any other fans?

Better Than the Onion I agree with Josh Marshall. This reads like an Onion article. more inside

The brief safe. ...even the most hardened burgler or most curious snoop will "skid" to a screeching halt as soon as they see them.

9 Americans, including 4 civilians, killed in Iraq. Contractors' bodies mutilated, dragged through Fallujah's streets. more inside

Secrets of the Magic 8-Ball revealed! But do you really want to know? Via J-Walk.

Great news for all Canadian Monkeys. Looks like sharing copyrighted material is legal in Canada. For now.

A modern Little Red Riding Hood. A modern interpretation. Laden with gore and sex, so keeping in the spirit of the originals, but definitely NSFW.

Condolences to our monkeyfriends in the Netherlands, as they lay to rest their Queen Juliana. She sounded like an interesting woman. This quotation of hers haunts me: "A lot of the sorrow of my life is unknown and should remain unknown, but it was an intense and valuable life."