Con Games by Michael Bamberger
"At a New Jersey prison, 32 felons competed for a chance to take on an Ivy League chess whiz" Sorry 'bout the cache; couldn't find a clean copy. Interesting read tho'.

CURIOUS GEORGE: Mozilla Mayhem
Hey, this is pretty minor; but it's driving me nuts... could the Mozilla folk in the house help me with a lil' hassle I'm having? more inside

Die Duckomenta
Great works of art, as seen through the eyes of Carl Barks and Floyd Gottfredson. This makes me happy.

Drunk? Female? Easily Influenced?
Terrifica to the rescue.
Don't miss her archnemesis: "Fantastico, who says he does not have a day job, says he likes to indulge in the finer, pleasurable things in life and that he likes to bring out the pleasure in people. He is convinced that Terrifica is a miserable, lonely woman who does not want anyone else to be happy."

Top 10 Internet Fads
Have you killed time with ALL these yet? via WAXY o'course.

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via mr.pants.

Forks Smash! MoFi Meet! NEW YORK MONKEY MEETUP Though I've been somewhat, er, busy; I am still down with the: 1st KING KONG MEMORIAL NY MOFI MEETUP June 4th, Friday; 5:45 (we'll wait till 6:00) on the stairs of the New York Metropolitan Museum of Art. more inside

Rockfish is impressive as hell. yes, it's a qt link and i imagine it'll be a bit of a download, but WHOA.

Darren Waterston's art blends Japanese screens and silkwork with the organic and fluid. Plus, monkeys.

Bogdan Raczynski
Don't ask, just click.

Chemistry Comes Alive!
Plenty of fun, from the trippy to the explosive to the poignant to the dadaist.

The Modern Compendium of Miniature Automata

Desktop Gaming
Gorgeous videogame wallpaper. I've been alternating between this (damn dog!) and this for the past month. more inside

Operation: Take One For the Team more inside

Shake that ass and let me see what you got
Seems like a natural for BLORT if you ask me. This one's all about the Machine Man cameo.

NEW YORK MOFI MEETUP
Curious George:As threatened sometime earlier, I'd like to do a NYC MoFi meetup down at the Met, maybe to see the Byzantium exhibition and get some food and hang. I need times, dates, suggestions of possible other activities and a list of interested participants. Let's do this, monkey types!

Gamelan Nyai Saraswati. Geshundheit.

Speed Cup Stacking My offering for official game of monkeyfilter.

Play with the Trojan Pleasure Organ. Basically SFW, but if you're wearing headphones or have your speakers turned up, be VERY cautious.

Eat too much wasabi and... I'm sorry; did I actually post this? My bad. Musta been hypnotized by that twitching philtrum.