Curious George: Blinking HDD Light! I noticed the hard drive activity light on my computer was blinking every second - on the second - when I was absentmindedly staring at it and noticed it synched up with the ticking of the clock on the wall. Thus began my strange odd-yssey to make it stop. more inside

Indonesians have massive balls, plan to plug volcano.

[Curious George] Help finding a DIY eye looky thing I saw once online instructions for making a device (called a ...?) which allows a person's two eyes to look into one another. It's a little box, mirrors, etc..., and one looks into the two eye holes. Any help finding it, or even a name for such device?

Ambient noise, apparently free. Here's purring. Here's the scratch of a pencil. Here's a typewriter (with carriage returns). Here's a restaurant. Um, warning: sound.

The Corpus Scriptorum Latinorum is a large archive of texts in Latin, most of which, thankfully, have translations into English and other languages. It's brought to you by the people at Forum Romanum. more inside

Chimps Observed Making Their Own Weapons Chimpanzees living in the West African savannah have been observed fashioning deadly spears... more inside

"Britain is repossessing the USA" by John Cleese

Taxonomy Explorer: the Classification of Species more inside

A golden-eyed priestess has been discovered by Lorenzo Costatini's team in Shahr-i-Sokhta.

Colossalest Colossal Squid ever is caught by New Zealand fishermen. Otherwise known as Mesonychoteuthis Hamiltoni, it's much bigger than the last one that was caught. Last link from the ever excellent Cephalopod News. more inside

Clowns Shot During Performance Two clowns were shot and killed by an unidentified gunman during their performance at a traveling circus in the eastern Colombian town of Cucuta, police said Wednesday. more inside

Curious George and his cable / internet bundle. Ontarian monkeys -- I need your help. After years of no cable nor home intertube access, I'm about to make the jump to hyperspace and get both. more inside

Ewe must be kidding. Right? (NSFW if you ever hope to be promoted)

Meet the inspiration for Yoda... alas, not a monkey.

I tried hard to find supporting links . . . but they were all awful. So I'm posting a single youtube link of a very young Aretha Franklin singing the hell out of "Natural woman." more inside

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It being Auden's Centenary, here's an article about him. Here's a link to some of his poetry. Here, and here, and here are links to Auden reading his own poetry. Here is contemporary pastiche. The Auden Society, if you're interested, is here.

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Pat, I'd Like To Buy A Sandwich Can't decide where to go for lunch? Just enter your Zip Code (yes, sorry, US only) and the query "Lunch" and let the Wheel Of Food pick which local restaurant you'll grace with your patronage!

Scallops are harvested by ‘dredging’ - dragging a set of steel spikes over the sea-bed. This dislodges the shellfish, produces $5 million per annum for the fishing-boats and reduces the sea-bed – sponges, corals, sea-fans and all – to barren rubble. more inside