Love spat in which no meerkats, MONKEYS, or llamas were harmed. A former meerkat expert at London Zoo has been ordered to pay compensation to a monkey handler she attacked with a wine glass in a love spat over a llama-keeper.

24 hours of minutes The Los Angeles County Museum is showing a 24-hour film in which the minutes tick by in real time, while the audience sees clocks or watches from movies and television. It starts Monday at 11 AM and ends Tuesday at AM. LACMA is keeping the café open all night to serve the moviegoers. more inside

Green and Carbon Neutral web hosting providers. David Herron, who I've never heard of before today, lists green web hosting providers alphabetically, with information about the hosts, and what he calls characteristics, which should properly be called services. more inside

Tom Mankiewicz has died. If you like 70s Bond, you've enjoyed Tom Mankiewicz's work. He wrote "Live and Let Die," and "The Man With the Golden Gun," and "Diamonds Are Forever." Mediageek says it has a version of his script for "Batman." more inside

It flies, it drives. The Transition by Terrafugia: simply land at the airport, fold your wings up and drive home!

Ten songs you know, that never won an Oscar, in their original movie form. I never knew that Dean Martin had to fend off Jerry Lewis's bleatings whilst crooning "That's amore." And wouldn't we all prefer "Mean green mother from outer space" to be a standard instead of "Take your breath away"?

Film is a lying media. Cows remember. Do you like to impersonate Werner Herzog at home? Sure you do. How about Philippe "Man on wire" Petit? That's fun too. Well, here’s Herzog + Petit. more inside

Free yearly credit reports. Time to get your free credit report! Every year, I check to make sure I know exactly what the credit report agencies say about me. This way, I get the information for free, and get it in a timely way, so if I need to protest anything, I can do so quickly. more inside

I propose a game. Several years ago, I belonged to an online community which sported a thread of numbers. We started from 1. Most of the first several numbers were simply designated as prime, but when things got into double digits, we found assignations for the numbers. For instance: 23 could just be designated as prime. The next post could have to do with the 24th parallel, or the 24th element, or the 24th Nobel Peace Prize winner, or what 24 cups of flour could be used for (and is divisible by 2,3,6, and 12). 25 (divisible by 5) might talk about what happened in the year 25 C.E., or that there are 25 menus here, or that a 25 cent stamp in Canada looked like this. more inside

One person's exhaustive attempt to gather into one website all the menstruation ads ever done. 1948: Are you in the know? 1990: Freedom! 1955: Help your daughter understand. 1970: Susan Dey says Tampax is "Just the ticket!" And there's Modess. . .because featuring gowns galore. There's so much to marvel at the Museum of Menstruation and Women's Health. Marjorie May Learns about Life in 1936! And Kotex prepares us for life in the 1920s. We can understand how to fit pessaries here, too. more inside

Where good taste ends.

Actual free credit report. As a consumer, I get tons of offers to view my FREE CREDIT REPORT every year, particularly around tax time, suggesting that my FREE CREDIT REPORT is a special offer for, say, $39.95, plus a swimming pool and years of usurious rates. But consumers actually do get this free. See FREE above. Or call US 877-322-8228. more inside

Who doesn't want to be this inventor? Steve Hollinger was recently profiled in the New Yorker about his umbrella. more inside

Capt. Sensible So I got a bad nosebleed tonight, which somehow reminded me of being a punk rocker, which somehow reminded me of the Damned, who I saw in some condemned rathole of a club in Southern California around 1980. Captain Sensible had fun insulting American bands until a boy I was in love with shouted out, "Oh, yeah? MC5!" Whereupon the Captain turned around and said, "Yeah, all right." I liked the Captain for that, and kept up with him. more inside

How to make a kimono. Here we find patterns and styles, how to tie an obi, about Japanese yukata, about men's kimono, about hakama pants, and about tabi socks.

A slice of something from 1998. It first showed up here, but it didn't get truly considered. Here is the new fUSION Anomaly. It's all about code and butterflies, Tech Nique, Synaptic Ether, and Entities, and shit. Here's where the web is 1975.

The last Jew in Afghanistan. "Locals refer to Zebulon Simentov, 47, simply as 'the Jew.'" The BBC has profiled him; as has the the BBC. Onlineathens and the timesonline wrote about a feud with a co-religionist. Lastly, he's celebrated and congratulated at a blog. Wait! He's all over the place! He's the last Jew in Afghanistan for 771 google pages.

Rice to riches "I don't sleep; I'm up all night." Peter Moceo was a culinary man of mystery. He cared about rice pudding. Well, lots of people do! But Moceo had to fear being caught by this fella for sundry felonies.

Ghana's Kakum Park. I've been googling around about Kakum National Park. Here are some pretty pictures. Here are more pictures. And here are some facts about plants in the rainforest. more inside

Oh, it's Monty Python. Here be - well, not dragons, tho certainly there must be some dragons - but here be 88 mini-films of Monty Python, clickable by thumbnail.