Curious Birthday George New page on the wiki. If you want your Birthday listed then please post a comment here or - even more radical - do it yourself on the wiki! more inside

fishy pedicure

Curious George, will boys like me if I don't wear makeup? more inside

Cross reactive allergens Forget about these if you are allergic to these. more inside

デコトラ (decotora) Trucks as an art form. (Note about the link - site is in Japanese - just scroll down until you hit the tacky "Next" button to go to the next picture gallery. Beware of the main home page - horrible sound file embedded.) more inside

Where the hell is Matt?

CueRIose gEorjeh - (sp?) I find that there are some words that I just *cannot* type correctly no matter how hard I try. more inside

KANPAI~~ Tokyo/Kanagawa Meetup! A special Monkey is dropping by the Land of the Rising Sun at the end of this month - and I was being thinking it might be fun to get together for a session of sake and frivolity. more inside

引き篭り (hikikomori) is often described as a recent phenomenon which is seen mainly in Japan - but how does it compare to the time-honoured tradition of hermits? Is it unnatural to pursue solitude? more inside

Curious George: wearing in my boots is wearing my feet out! I love my 14-hole white Docs. But I've been trying to break them in for a year now and I still get blisters. more inside

Nessie is really Dumbo claims Neil Clark, curator of palaeontology at Glasgow University's Hunterian Museum. "Ya pure mad dafty!" cry Scotland's Tourism Industry and the many believers of the legend of the Loch Ness monster. more inside

Who wants to be a Chinese Mucus Monitor? The local government in Beijing says it's launching a campaign against the common habit of hocking up lurgies in public. According to the BBC. But in 2003 the Scottish Sunday Herald explained that fines were already being enforced due to the outbreak of SARS. And while many sites claim spitting is illegal, I pretty much spat the dummy just trying to find out what countries it actually was illegal to cough one up. more inside

Bugs of Mass Destruction Several countries in the past (and not so distant past) have used insects infected with diseases such as plague, cholera and malaria as weapons to - well basically kill a lot of people. The first recorded incident was allegedly in 600 BC. And in keeping in line with the original article which rambles from point to point, here is an in-depth look at the possible causes of the infamous 10 Plagues of Egypt. more inside

charsets suXors Curious George: I have posted far and wide - yet have found no solution. I have a php and charset encoding dilemma. So as not to cause mass hysteria - details listed inside.... more inside

"Putting a chicken skin in a bag might not be such a good idea" say these snack-aficionados. It seems they are pretty intense about their snacks. [Warning: NSIYFBP - not safe if you are feeling a bit peckish] more inside

Foul death prevented, not by strangling the chicken, but blowing it. more inside

Some tanks enjoy a leisurely drive through Tiananmen Square A lighthearted (and very brief) look at the potential changes for image searching on Google China. more inside

Life in the fast lane. Why fast? Mainly hiding in the rainbowy realm of Alternative Health, fasting is seen as a way to cure a plethora of ills, or just a means to better physical and mental health. Fasting features in several religions, and sometimes is done for whackier reasons. more inside

Australian arrested in Italy for drug trafficking. Although he was arrested in August, the story has just been released today that Australian citizen Kevin (Fuc Iang) Lay, was arrested for allegedly smuggling cocaine. Of late there have been many reports of Australians being arrested in other countries for drug trafficking. But are the number of offenders on the rise - or is it the media's latest favourite topic? more inside

No Hos this Christmas! No lap sitting or sweet sucking either! more inside