Cute and Sinister. All at the same time. From a nice collection of animal pics. Grr.

Curious George: GRE I'm taking the Graduate Record Exam soon-ish and I was wondering if any of you monkeys have some good tips. I am four years out of school and dreading test day. Any help would be appreciated.

Your Age on Other Worlds - Java thingie.

The Weee man is a kind of robot sculpture built from discarded bits. The idea of making sculptures out of garbage isn't new, of course. The result can be repellent or hermetically sealed and profitable. Sometimes it's plain uninspired. Sometimes a beautifully-finished fake. No wonder people sometimes make mistakes

SF Author Robert Sheckley has been seriously ill in Ukraine since early this month. His medical bills there have become very high and family and friends have asked the SF Fan community if they can help financially. more inside

Upcoming presidential elections in Iran It seems that people often forget that there already is a kind of democracy in Iran, and not the 99.9% for Dear Leader type, either. more inside

I Hate Dimes Because dimes eat babies...

Twelve-year-old Baby Confuses the Hell Out of Everyone ... (Click through UK Telegraph link)...and gets the conspiracy folk all a-twitter to boot. more inside

The Perry-Castaneda Library Map Collection at the University of Texas at Austin holds more than 230,000 maps, many of which have been scanned. This extensive online collection includes hundreds of high quality, copyright-free maps of nations and cities, as well as many historical maps. A special "Electronic Maps of Current Interest" section highlights maps of places in the news. This site also hosts a variety of links to other map-related sites.

Curious George, Miami Edition: Three friends and I will experience an 8 hour layover at the Miami Int'l Airport on our way to Peru next Sunday, from 3-11pm. Prime time to get out of the place, but where to go or what to do? more inside

Crochet muffs. Hee! No, really, muffs! Vaguely NSFW. (via a little pregnant) more inside

International Space Station oxygen problems This is how bad our space program is. The article is depressing for fans of space exploration. MSNBC article print version may ask your browser to print the page - just cancel it.

Das Keyboard - It's the wild colour scheme that freaks me. Every time you try to operate one of these weird black controls that are labelled in black on a black background, a little black light lights up black to let you know you've done it. snarfled from Cynical-C

The cautionary tale of little Jack Binney (cartoon)

What Do You Really Know About The Bible? What Do You Know About The Separation of State and Church? more inside

Adopt-a-Blog
Emancipating the outernet.

Disposable underwear No soap and water needed! No more laundry! more inside

Childhood: Adventures in Neverland

Curious George: Circumventing domain blocks. Every once in awhile over the years I've run across a website that won't let me look at it unless I'm in the .gov or .edu domain. more inside

Curious George - help, help, they're being depressed! I'm a (new) high school teacher. A couple of my teenaged students are visibly very unhappy. Quelle surprise... more inside