South Africa's crime-fighting Gorilla has passed on. Max the gorilla got shot by a bastard, but didn't lie down and die, he kicked the dude's ass. And bit the ass of one of the cops sent in afterward (he was pissed off and didn't see his badge, presumably). But now nature has done what two bullets could not do. A true monkey (well, Great Ape) hero. I mourn his passing. Ook ook.

Rasputin's Trouser Snake on show in a jar in a Russian Sex Museum. You heard it here first, folks. The Russkies are putting the Mad Monk's Member on display, floating, disembodied, as it were, in fluid. The mystery is.. who thought to cut it off.. and why? Warning: this link contains a picture of a big severed uncut willy in a jar of formaldehyde. If you are disturbed by such things, Nostrildramus suggests you do not click. But you will. Oh, you will. more inside

A Levitating Frog - with help from a 16 Tesla magnetic field within a Bitter Magnet. Snarfled from Reality Carnival more inside

Do you believe in Super Heroes? Well, little monkeys, I do. Meet Angle Grinder Man. The self-professed "wheel-clamp and speed camera vigilante cum subversive superhero philanthropist entertainer type personage". WHAM! BOOM! POW! Take that Batman, Wonderwoman, et al. Whoever al is. Snarfled from Boing Boing

Idea to track a stolen laptop. Using a customized default browser homepage, no less. I thought this might interest some monkeys. Run it up the old flagpole, etc. "The computer would, in effect, send a beacon back to its owner after being stolen." Interesting. Via kottke

Steve Ballmer's iPod Ad. Crazy-ass Steve Ballmer's notorious Dance-Monkeyboy-Dance vid turned into an iPod sillhouette routine. Whoooeeeeaaaaah! Snarfled from Boing Boing

Fetid Farmer Forcibly Freshened. Kenyan John Kasokong had not bathed for a decade. His stench so overpoweringly toxic, villagers took violent action with soap and a rope. Quonsar is next. Millions rejoice.

Free Quonsar! With every pack of cornflakes!

The Last Written Words of Albert Einstein. His last spoken words are apparently lost forever, because he spoke them in German to an American nurse who didn't understand a word. This was found unfinished, next to his deathbed. Note: This is a rather large jpg. Can anyone read it? Shed any light? Switch on the languagehat-signal!

The 16 Best-ever Freeware Utilities. So they say. I use a few of 'em. I also use a few of the ones from here, which I find pretty useful. There's some good ones here, too.

The Exorcist in 30 Seconds. Oh, and it's re-enacted by bunny rabbits. I'm sure I laughed too much at this to be quite normal. FLASH required Seen at zFilter

Korean Poop Toon. Holy crap! Dunno how to describe this.. uh.. it's got dancing grubs of some sort, a very ky00t tune with high pitched singing, and lots of (fake) turds which reveal their origins. It even shows how the animators made the fake turds at the end. FLASH animation - SFW I think, unless the boss is looking over your shoulder & your volume is up too loud (it's in Korean). Snarfled from Random-Abstract

A three-headed frog. That's right, a frog with three heads. And six legs! Think of the French people it could feed! Mmmmm-mmm, that's some good eatin'. With pic. more inside

Birds recognise Monkey warning calls. Eggheads claim jungle birds are able to distinguish certain freaked-out monkey shrieks from other freaked-out monkey shrieks, determining which are useful to them. Babelfish not involved.

Winged Cats. That's right, cats with wings. Folklore is replete with stories about such creatures... but could they possibly be real? Sort of. Here's the good guts on flappy cats, with pics. Warning for the squeamish: don't scroll to the very bottom of page; b&w pic of a man with pendulous facial skin abnormality - most people won't find this too bad, tho'.

R2D2 gives Ben & Luke a thrill. The little droid clearly got his holograms mixed up - but Luke & Ben don't seem so unhappy! (probably NSFW) Note: Windows Media file - 3 Megs - won't play automatically. Nothing shocking, really, worth a laugh! Check out their faces. Snarfled from zFilter

Transhumanism. Vernor Vinge on the Singularity. A rather old article, but a good one. Wrap your frontal lobes around this one, fellow domesticated primates. more inside

The new food fad: Black Tomatoes. Eggheads have slaved over a hot greenhouse for years to produce the Kumato. It's black, it's from Galapagos, and it makes your reptiles sexy. Eat one today!

Stalin gave Russia crabs and now Scandinavia's got them. Joseph Stalin introduced giant Pacific crabs to north-eastern Europe in the 1930s (the maniac!) but now the monster crustaceans are marching south along Norway's coast devouring everything in their path. Gah! more inside

How to tie a Turban. Warning: Link contains egregiously ugly site design.