Cavalcade of Bad Nativity Scenes Ever looked at your church's nativity scene and thought it could use a little sprucing up? Well, these folks did. more inside

I Refuse to Acknowledge the Passing of Halloween! Every day I listen to spooky sounds and scary stories. I read terrifying tales from the comics of yesteryear. I dream about what my house would look like but for the influence of my non-horror geek wife. I remember the horror toys I used to own and love. I plan for next year's Halloween costume. more inside

Curious George: Nudes for Kids So my son is 8 years old, and has recently started getting very curious about the differences between male and female bodies. He's even come home talking about a friend at school who's gained respect in 2nd grade for having "accidentally" found some pics of naked women online (probably with the accidental help of his two older brothers), and so the little Pettle has expressed an interest in seeing naked women. more inside

Crazy Old Ads It was truly a different time. [via Oddee] more inside

Found Item Clothing. Ever wanted to dress like Val Kilmer in Real Genius? Or advertise Elsinore Beer like the McKenzie Brothers? or show your support for the undead with a ZombAid shirt a la Shaun of the Dead? Well now you can, thanks to the wonders of the internet and creative licensing. more inside

The Onion Scoops the Real News Again Church Group Offers Homosexual New Life In Closet First there was this famously prescient post that is far less funny now than it was at the time of publication. However, on a lighter note, MSNBC catches up with America's Finest News Source with this titillating article about a fundamentalist preacher who says God wants you to have hot sex, within certain limitations, of course. Also of course, the Onion beat them to it by nine years, with their classic piece about the minister of Holy Christ Almighty Lutheran church who just loves to fuck his wife. more inside

But what about all those exploding cigar gags? Turner Broadcasting has agreed to edit scenes from classic cartoons shown on its Boomerang Classic Cartoons Network to remove sequences that glamorize smoking. more inside

Quiet! Kang is Talking! Civil war re-enactors? No. Marvel Secret Wars Re-Enactors? YES. via youtube more inside

It's Pi Day! That's right, because of the quirks of the calendar, today, 3/14, is Pi Day! Geddit? Though I guess to be totally accurate, it should have happened once, in 1592. (3.141592...) Anyway, you can brighten your friends' day with Pi day songs, send Pi day greeting cards, make fun Pi jewelry, have pi recitations and pi(e)-eating contests and generally do any number of things that will ensure your continued celibacy. Hooray for Pi! Whoohoo! more inside

Animal Snuff For Kids via the usually insufferable critics at The Onion AV Club. more inside

Curious George: Poe, Wilde, Fair Use A couple of questions for legal/publishing savvy/artistic monkeys: I want to use an image of a famous painting to go along with an article I wrote to be published in a print magazine with a small but respectable circulation. The painting is by Manet, "The Absinthe Drinker," and I'm wondering if I have to worry about copyright, fair use, and all that with such a classic well-known image. And, but, also, does anyone know where I can find a couple of high-res, fair-use images of portraits of Oscar Wilde and Edgar Allen Poe? For the same article. more inside

Amazing Jugs! No, not porn star prosthetics nor Parton's protruberances, but glass jars and jugs as containers for impossible installations of head-scratching art. And you thought building a ship in one of these suckers was tough. [stolen shamelessly from msnbc's "clicked"] more inside

Classic Monsters, Classic Art If there's a better use for Photoshop, I haven't seen it.

Curious George: Am I Being Coerced? Is my company's CEO just being a go-getter in his charitable fundraising, or is he using his position of power in a coercive and possibly illegal way? Legal monkeys, please hope me. more inside

BBC: Has Katrina Saved American Journalism? The BBC notices that in the aftermath of Katrina, American journalists are asking the tough questions. And about bloody time, too. more inside

Curious George: Science Gone Amok? An editorial in my local daily paper this weekend used the idea of Roe v. Wade's "original intent" (i.e., they thought abortion would only be used in emergencies) vs. how it turned out (according to the writer, it is now the defacto method of birth-control among the easily villified lower classes) to launch into a diatribe about how we can't trust scienists with stem cell research, because we know we can't count on them not to take the "next step", leading to a nightmare world of science gone mad. Now, regardless of your stance on abortion rights, I was wondering--how many real cases can you think of where science has, in fact, gone amok? more inside

Curious George: Getting out of a Cell Phone contract. I suspect I may be up that famous creek with this, but I thought I'd ask the monkeys and see if I can get some help. more inside

The Works of Charles Fort The man for whom the Fortean Times was named, he was Mulder and Scully before there were internet nerds. Particularly of interest is his Book of the Damned, a collection of facts that science is powerless to explain...or at least was, in 1919. Full text in HTML format. more inside

Jesus Christ! A Condom! Apparently, Spanish Catholics are ready to make the leap into the 20th century...a hundred years late. more inside

Super Xuxa vs. Satan Seriously. more inside