Curious George: moving past point-and-click I own a Canon A40 Powershot and I'm thinking about spending some money to take a greater variety of photos. more inside

Food at Google: Google's snack room Who wouldn't want to work for Google when they feed you like this?

The 30 Most Spoken Languages in the World I guess it shouldn't be surprising that Spanish is now the second-most common and English is down to third. Should it?

All the Katamari Damacy lyrics, translated to English. For the Katamari Damacy fans, from someone who apparently had too much time on their hands. more inside

Isaac Asimov's The Last Question.

This is by far my favorite story of all those I have written. After all, I undertook to tell several trillion years of human history in the space of a short story and I leave it to you as to how well I succeeded.

Cook an egg using your mobile phone. Via Metachat.

Remo William Raccoon's homepage: a guide to raising raccoons, written from the raccoon's point of view. more inside

Dedicated to the art of parking. Via AskMe

Meet the World: A Brazilian artist plays around with a few of the world's flags.

Draw a house, ignore the bad personality test. Flash-based sketch-a-house. Add it to MonkeyFilter Avenue or create your own neighbourhood.

MonkeyFilter finally has real growing pains. MoFi is broken at the moment due to excessive CPU usage on the server. Only the front page is viewable, and links to posts will bring up an error. We will be remedying this tonight, but expect downtime of around six hours. Sorry about that.

Help a guy propose to his girlfriend. Josh can't afford a ring to give his girlfriend, so he's asking for adclicks to raise the funds. Er. I'm in a soppy mood so I figure we can all give the guy a click or two. more inside

Ye olde English Skynyrd and the Shaft theme.

Almost six years later... let's review Y2K [wiki] paranoia, just for fun. Besides, you never know when the next disaster will strike. Of course, some people are a little more paranoid than others, while others expected to profit.

Profiles of men who knit just in case you didn't think it possible. Have a yen for yarn? Learn to knit! Knit Happens? Blog about it! Knit a rabbit, knit a kitten, knit a dog a sweater. For the HP-obsessed, knit all the woolly wear from the Harry Potter movies! Sci-fi fan? Knit Doctor Who's scarf! (Warning: Tom Baker's scarf varied from 12-17 feet in length.)

Self-postFilter: Since I've been hearing some great things about monkeys lately, I figure we deserve a chance to boast about our achievements on MoFi. Self-links permitted (within reason). jacobw has published a book, kamus has an album on iTunes, squidranch helped save an historic burger joint. Tell us about them, please, and what everyone else has done lately?

Announcing Anonymous George: Koko and middleclasstool have come up with a great system for posting anonymous Curious, George posts. If you'd like to ask the monkeys about that mysterious rash or how to pick up chicks without all the awful embarrassment that may invoke, check out the link in the sidebar.

Free registration codes for Opera, for ad-free surfing. Only for a couple more hours. Apparently it's their birthday.

Naughty Brion is playing WoW past his bedtime. Coolest mother ever. more inside

Curious George: Ow So today I had two impacted wisdom teeth removed. My dentist is lovely but didn't explain the aftermath too well. [The more inside could be gross.] more inside