ASCII Art. Just about everything you never wanted to know about making ASCII art.

CURIOUS GEORGE You parents out there! What are your favorite children's songs and singers? more inside

Google News Map - For those obsessed with mapping of various 'landscapes'.

Lunar Magic: Level Editor for Super Mario World. more inside

Eine Kleine Nachtmusik

Monkey Shelf: Heavy Rotation What're you listening to? more inside

U.S. Democratic presidential hopeful John Kerry and his high school band, "The Electras," actually cut an album back in 1961. That's according to the site Kerry Rocks, "A Rock n' Roll History of Our Next President."

Chasm. A fun little flash adventure.

Curious George: DVDR Help! DVDr problem. more inside

Online Game Boy Emulator in Java
With Frogger, Tetris, Ghosts'n'Goblins, Bubble Bobble, Pokemon, Zelda, Mario etc. Let the games begin.

It's not a rock, it's a machine fitting! The topic of pareidolia is quite fascinating. more inside

You may hate software. This site will deepen that hatred.

Smoke kills. No, really.

Confess your sins, then buy the book. If you couldn't get enough of grouphug.us, here's more anonymous confessions for you. Tackier than ever before!

What Would Jesus Test-drive? [via Squoogy] more inside

Meanwhile, this from North Korea: "The U.S. imperialists, who are obsessed by world supremacy, are pushing ahead with preparations for a genetic and biological warfare in real earnest to exterminate other nations. It was exposed some time ago by Hatman, a famous writer and journalist of the United States." Who is Hatman?

Take the Life as a Loser Experience After 5 years, Will Leitch has written his final Life as a Loser column for The Black Table. Sometimes funny, sometimes poignant, but always entertaining. If you really like it you can buy the book

The Poetry of General George S. Patton, Jr.

"It is a vanity thing, I am ashamed to say..." Apparently there's more to the story of why Bob Edwards is getting the boot at NPR, and it's not going over well with listeners. Strategies to save him include signing a petition and withholding donations from you local station (some of the pressure to get rid of Edwards came from local stations in the first place). more inside

'It's so difficult to live with what we know' A stark and horrifying account from yesterday's Guardian of the 100 days of genocide in Rwanda, ten years ago. I never realised the full extent of the slaughter of the Tutsis by the Hutu: it was the most comprehensive genocide since the Holocaust. [part two]