Links posted in October 2005
October 31, 2005
BalancedPolitics.org. Here's a good idea: a website that summarizes the basic arguments pro and con of Big Issues. Abortion, Affirmative Action, Euthanasia... Oh, and should the minimum wage be abolished?
Blizzard's WoW
Spyware, aka ?
.."Rejoice gaming fans, for the latest new “feature” of Blizzard Entertainment’s smash hit multi-player online videogame World of Warcraft is here! No, it’s not a new Sword of Destruction or Staff of Power—it’s spyware! Yes, unbeknownst to many gamers, World of Warcraft now has an unwanted special feature—a hidden program called “Warden” that snoops gamers’ computers looking for any "unauthorized third-party program" that “enables or facilitates cheating of any type.”
Curious George: I don't get it. Is the Wizard of Id trying to make a fundie anti-Halloween statement? [more inside]
Seven firemen fired for having sex while on duty. After 9/11, we all changed. More than ever, even since the dawn of charity calendars, firemen were able to catch more tail than the Humane Society. [via obscurestore] [more inside]
US Congress Defeats Minimum Wage Increase It's $5.15 per hour, and has been since 1997. Everything else is more expensive now though. [more inside]
The Brothers Chaps Play Football With the game over, I took some time to fall to my knees and scream into the sky over Jesse's body.
Scaredy Cat George: I love a good ghost story. Local spooky tales are always the most fun. Help make my holiday horrifying and share your best scary stories inside. Happy Halloween, monkeys! [more inside]
The Legend of Me by Jack Handey
♫
Yahoo!!! posts the 'top 100 weird sites'.
Now I'm not saying they are or they aren't. I'm just posting them now so we can get them out the way in one go, cos I'm mean like that.
Move along...
Curious George: Trick? Or treat?
Masturbakers. For all your erotic cake needs. Though I think they're not quite as well-done as this penis cake.... complete with piercings. (vaguely NSFW I suppose, what with the representation of naughty bits in frosted baked goods)
Amazing picture from the Large Binocular Telescope at Arizona of NGC89 - a 24 million light years distant galaxy. [more inside]
The Top-10 Languages used on the Internet. The number of recorded internet users has reached the staggering figure of 812,931,592 worldwide. Leading in absolute terms, with more than 35% of total internet users, English is smashed by those 526,288,835 users that access internet in a different language. While a considerable share of people from non English-speaking countries are more or less proficient in the language, recent data has shown that in China 85% of the users prefer to access pages in their native language. That figure is 84% for Japan, 82% for Brazil and Spain, 81% for Argentina and Peru and 79% for Germany. [more inside]
Is domestic violence now relative? Can an Aussie explain to me why law is applied differently to members of different cultures? Or is this a hoax and I can expect to see it on Snopes. [more inside]
The MegaPenny Project. I was crushed by a million pennies once. It was painful. I do not recommend it.
Social worker gets charged with Obstructing Justice for helping a 14 year old get an abortion. [more inside]
October 30, 2005
Paying homage to the i's Needs Speakers, SFW, amusing.
"In an absorbent homage to Georgia O'Keeffe, Kotex has introduced "flowerful" new packaging for its pads of all sizes." Salon link, requires day pass to view. (via Salon's Broadsheet) [more inside]
Digest this !
To quote Joe E Lewis:
"They had me on the operating table all day. They looked into my stomach, my gall bladder, they examined everything inside of me. Know what they decided? I need glasses."
Anonymous, George: Distance Makes The Heart Grow Fungus Or at least that's how the song goes, and I'm scared it's true. My SO of nearly two years recently moved halfway across the country to pursue her career. Due to a lack of prospects out there, I remained behind. [more inside]
October 29, 2005
The Avengers (Illustrated) [more inside]
50 Years Of The World Press Photo Awards Some I remembered. Most I didn't, and are almost too painful to see. Amazing how much emotion a still image can capture and evoke.
Curious George and the Dangling Extension Cord. Is it dangerous to leave a live cord open with nothing in it? [more inside]
Ninja New York restaurant review: "Yelping Warriors, and Rocks in the Broth". "An American offshoot of a restaurant in Tokyo, Ninja intends to evoke a Japanese mountain village inhabited by ninjas, a special breed of stealthy warriors. In this case they come armed not only with swords and sorcery but also with recipes, which may be their most dangerous weapons of all..." (via the Livejournal community food_porn)
Where art meets science. The 2005 Novartis and The Daily Telegraph Visions of Science Photographic Awards, supported by the Science Photo Library, produced some colorful and eclectic art-meets-science winners this year. Contest entries came from professors, doctors, researchers, scanning electron microscopists, artists, photographers and students. [more inside]
October 28, 2005
She's ... um ... dancing with a ... um ... er ... yeah ... (Warning: Quicktime .MOV) Of the Top Ten Worst Jobs in Science, Ballerina for NASA only ranked 9th. But it should rank #1 for straight-out wierdness.
Aussies come home!! The Australian Government will urge all it's citizens overseas to rush home if the bird flu starts to spread amongst humans. After all Australia will be bird flu free. As the Health Minister Tony Abbott claims, to catch it "you've got to eat raw chicken meat or you've got to drink duck's blood or something that Australians just don't do." [more inside]
The Nürburgring Nordschleife A long description of driving the 'Ring in a Mini Cooper S. I wonder if I could fit mine in the overhead compartment so I could fly it over there instead of just pretending with GTA4.
US Passports to have RFID
So says the state department. Newsfilter links.
Good? Bad? Tinfoil Hat? Screwedville? We report. YOU post snarky derails. via
Your eyes fool you. So therefore you're either a fool, a fooled one, a fooly-fool or just a nice monkey with normal colorful eyes. [more inside]
Getting that Bay Area Meetup Feeling There were some rumblings about having another SF Bay Area meetup. We will rumble no more. This is the time. This is the place. We throw down the gauntlet to those LA monkeys, too. Come on! We dare ya! [more inside]
Is Bill Watterson working undercover? "A while back, our local paper started carrying a comic called Frazz by Jef Mallett. Immediately, I was struck by how much the illustration style looked like Bill Watterson’s. The main character (Frazz) looks an awful lot like a Calvin in his early twenties..."
Sulu comes out. "Takei told The Associated Press on Thursday that his new onstage role as psychologist Martin Dysart in "Equus," helped inspire him to publicly discuss his sexuality..."
October 27, 2005
Kader Attia's flying rats - an, ahem, interesting art installion piece. Pictures (1, 2, 3) may appear NSFW. Until you realize what it actually is... then you're just creeped out.
Worst Halloween Decoration Ever Sometimes when a supposed Halloween decoration looks ultra-real, it's because it IS real.
The Slik Road ends up in Seattle in a nice set of resources at UW, including texts (such as Franciscan monk William of Rubruck's famous account of a journey made between 1253 and 1255 to the court of the Mongol Khan) and maps as well as introductions to the cities and architecture, art and cultures to be found along the way.
Razza the fugitive rat sets distance record,
for swimming that is. After 18 weeks of eluding various traps and poisoned baits, Razza finally met his match when he succumbed to the lure of fresh penguin meat.
Good news, another solo male rat is now on the run; do you think he will re-write the record books by routing Razza's record?
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There's a Defence for Democracies .
And a Foundation no less.
The upcoming debate is at Trinity College Dublin.
“This house believes that George W. Bush is a danger to world stability.”
GTA has nothing on 1986's CHILLER
One of Vietnam's oldest whale temples is to be upgraded. The temple dates from the eighteenth century. No doubt it features strongly in the whale festival. The Vietnamese also take any opportunity to worship whales al fresco.
Savage Chickens Halloween Contest!
What is the chicken saying?
(Savage Chickens previously on MoFi)
Apple Home Page - Tribute to Rosa Parks -who took the photograph? [more inside]
Particles - a simple physics simulation
We will, without fail, put a halt to your machinations, Katori Shintaro. We will ensure peace on Earth. We are known as Earth Defender Freshmen! [google video, humorous][via]
Gun Makers in Canadian Gov't Crosshairs
How foolish is this?
I understand this because America is the land of the frivolous law suit.
What's next, filing suit against GM 'cause you were in a car accident?
Against Heinkel if you are robbed at knife-point?
I hang my head in despair.
Curious George: Why do woodland ducks tend to live in ponds, while canadian geese hang around bus stops and smoke rock? [more inside]
October 26, 2005
If Fox News Had Been Around Throughout History photoshopped "scenes from history" as Fox News may have reported it. via [more inside]
The Plame Leak Case Thread.
Fitzmas. The Plame Affair. The CIA leak Grand Jury Investigation. Call it what you will, the thing is coming to a head, and this is the official Monkeybashi-endorsed thread to discuss it and related breaking news.
Within days, the Fitzgerald investigation reaches its conclusion, and either special prosecutor Fitzgerald will convene, announce an extension to the Grand Jury, hand down indictments, or all of the above. It seems unlikely at this stage that nobody will be indicted at all, but nevertheless, we are near to possibly historic political events, and we will need a place to discuss it. This is it.
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You Knit What?? The blog of knitting fugly. And it can be scary fugly indeed. Also for Halloween: Poor Lil Punkin.
Curious George: Why do poor white people in the US tend to live in trailer parks and poor black people in the US tend to live in housing projects? [more inside]
Superman in Hospital [more inside]
Just what I always wanted! They must have a more advanced version for use on GW Bush, but it's sure nifty just the same!!
Aliens we'll never meat... Sometimes it's surprising what you find when you're searching for pictures of things (cars, firearms, hats, even jolly pirate fun) "made out of meat." [more inside]
Democracy Arrives In Iraq! With a 78% approval and only two provinces boycotting the votw. That's not bad, but what do y'all think lies ahead?
happy birthday to you
You live in a zoo
You look like a monkey
And you smell like one too!
[more inside]
October 25, 2005
Inside Hollywood's hottest cult: The Kabbalah Chronicles. Madonna, Ashton Kutcher, Demi Moore, Sandra Bernhard, and other celebrities are helping one marketing-savvy religious leader's version of Kabbalah become the new Scientology.
Chen Guangcheng was beat yesterday. Chen was also beat earlier this month. Chen, a 33 year old blind activist from the eastern province of Shandong China, has been placed on house arrest for bringing international attention to forced abortions.
A statue of Tommie Smith and John Carlos
has been erected at San Jose State University. Smith and Carlos were (in)famous for their raised fist protest on the medal podium at the 1968 Olympics.
via SportsFilter
Ye olde English Skynyrd and the Shaft theme.
Home Wind Turbines - fuck me, what a great idea!
Visual Complexity. How do you draw a picture of complexity? Whether it's the iPod ecosystem , a map of the Internet , 10 million receipts from a hardware store or the U.S. ruling class and even the network of interactions between major characters in the novel Les Miserables by Victor Hugo, divided in 11 communities represented by different colors. [more inside]
What are creative people listening to these days? Find out at Designer's Mixtape; 14 creative types so far, each offering seven selections, nicely streamed in an easy-to-use thingamabob. [more inside]
Shrine to a chicken. These are the people I have to share my city with. [more inside]
Ada County Jail Arrest Reports
R.I.P. Rosa Parks
"When Rosa Parks refused to get up, an entire race of people began to stand up for their rights as human beings.
It was a simple act that took extraordinary courage in Montgomery, Ala., in 1955. It was a place where black people had no rights white people had to respect. It was a time when racial discrimination was so common, many blacks never questioned it.
At least not out loud."
Thank you Mrs. Parks, for your courage.
WriAShorStorWe! "defective yeti is proud to announce WriAShorStorWe: "The NaNoWriMo For Lazy People™!" Yes kids, October 31-November 4 is the blogosphere's first annual Write A Short Story Week! Here's how it works: ummm, you write a short story. In a week. The End."
Curious George Kitten filter. Tonight, about one hour ago, I got a little kitten. I wasn't planning on having one. [more inside]
October 24, 2005
Corn kernel burning for heat Eastern IA and Northern IL had one heck of a drought this summer and, while the harvest isn't as bad as expected, a lot of it is sitting around waiting to be shipped down the Mississippi to hurricane ravaged ports. Meanwhile, a portion of the crop is testing positive for a toxic fungus. You might as well put it in your pipe and smoke it. Which is just what is happening as corn kernel stoves become popular amid rising fuel costs. They only need to be loaded once a day and need a simple vent to the outside. Oh, happy day! [more inside]
"The band weren't very good and I'm not having a nice time." They're on top of the NME charts right now, the shit hot rock group Arctic Monkeys out of Sheffield. Flash video of "I bet you look good on the dancefloor". MP3 goodness on aurgasm.
Curious George- Gas Prices Our gas company (Keyspan) is offering us the chance to lock the gas prices for the winter, and I was just wondering... [more inside]
After Greenspan... "The public worships Alan Greenspan for his oracular wisdom. But what is his legacy? It includes a crazy housing market, overextended consumers and a burst stock bubble". Clearly not everyone thinks well of Greenspan. Either way, the new guy's got his work cut out for him.
Run for your life! [more inside]
Curious, George: Genius wanted I'm looking for real geniuses. Know any? [more inside]
Democracy Arrives in Afghanistan! Basically, these bodies were decomposing, and needed to be buried or burned. So, in order to elicit attacks from the Taliban, the soldiers burned the bodies because they can't find the Taliban otherwise.
McDonalds Looks to Sell Quality McDonald's on Monday will kick off a two-day media event to tout the quality of its food and combat critics who say its burgers and fries are unhealthy. [more inside]
San Francisco in Jello.
Liz Hickok creates sculpture of the city landmarks, using Jello.
Everyone's got room for ... the Bay Bridge?
Prussian Blue: The Mary Kate and Ashley Olson of white supremacy Wow. The mind boggles.
Interview with Orhan Pamuk. Der Spiegel interviews Mr. Pamuk who was in Frankfurt for the Book Fair and to accept the Peace Prize of the German Book Trade. [more inside]
Celebrity lookalikes. Hours of fun. [more inside]
Curious George: Is Rockwool more insulating than an air gap? As winter's cold tentacles creep into my house and penetrate me with icy determination, my thoughts also turn to insulation.
This game is no longer available so he made his own. [more inside]
Get a feline life? Try Catster. At 43 Things, 8 people want to have a catster.com cat of the week. There's already a fanlisting for Catster called Kitty Connection which apparently has six members. Laughing Squid featured it in one entry a couple of days ago. It has been around for about a month. A review of it says the original Dogster was launched as a spoof, but took off. [more inside]
October 23, 2005
The Eggcorn Database "This site collects unusual spellings of a particular kind, which have come to be called eggcorns. Typical examples include free reign (instead of free rein) or hone in on (instead of home in on), and many more or less common reshapings of words and expressions: a word or part of a word is semantically reanalyzed, and the spelling reflects the new interpretation."
The Thousand Sorrows of Ogner Stump [more inside]
Hamming the burger with Eugene. The best laugh I've had all week!
All your base rhapsody. (video) Brightened my day.
Indictments. Today Special Counsel Patrick Fitzgerald handed over 22 indictments to Attorney General Alberto Gonzalez, accusing President George W. Bush, Vice President Richard Cheney and others of espionage, obstruction of justice, perjury and a variety of other charges in the matter of the CIA/Valerie Plame leak-gate case.
An analyst for an investment bank literally chopped up an iPod and estimated the total cost to Apple for manufacturing, packaging and distributing the gadget. Conclusion? Half the money you pay for an iPod is pure PROFIT.
Guys, you can thank me later. [more inside]
Curious, George: Déjà Vu
How often do you experience it? Does it bother you, or do you enjoy it? It never really bothered me until yesterday's David Copperfield post.
The moment I saw the post, I kinda freaked out; it was the most intense case of déjà vu I have ever experienced. At first I tried to convince myself, "surely I must have read this somewhere else." But then I saw Chy's comment, and I knew that something was awry. It was as if I was living Groundhog Day...
And yes, yesterday was quite a bad day for me! Why, why did my déjà vu have to involve David Copperfield!? Is this some evil mutation of the David Hasselhoff recursion??
8-bit Star Wars You may have to squint, but I think it's worth it.
Wanna get pwned by bacon? The bacon of the month club will make you bacon's bitch, man. This is only for those of you who dream about bacon, 'cos it's hella expensive. [more inside]
October 22, 2005
Robo-Monkey. From WowWee comes a talking robotic chimpanzee head. video
The value of Monkeyfilter. Based on the research of Tristan Louis, the dollar value of various websites is now possible to be determined. Monkeyfilter apparently is worth $173,313.78. [more inside]
Shake's insults. I have no idea what a 'pumpion' may be but it sounds foul, especially in combination with 'pottle-deep'!
Falcon dive-bombing starlings wins top photo prize:
"I felt the fear and the starlings' urgent need to survive, and the psychological pressure of the falcon as it dive-bombed the small birds," says Italian Manuel Presti of his photograph Sky Chase, overall winner of this year's Wildlife Photographer of the Year competition, organised by the Natural History Museum, London, UK, and BBC Wildlife Magazine.
Seen at Follow Me Here...
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Smell it, buy it
Going into my local DIY store (run by British hegemony of PLC's) I noticed a freshly sawn pine smell that ceased directly 20 meters inside. No news really but heres the rest:
Cinemas - popcorn
Supermarkets - Baked bead
Potatoes - Irish soil
Supermarkets - Roasted coffee
Grass seed - grass scent
Cosmetics store - talcum powder smell
and
Barbeques - Hickory
Plastic notebooks - leather
New cars - New car smell
Poochie sez: "Pray five times a day!" With Omar as Homer, and Badr substituted for Bart, The Simpsons is now playing on Arab television ... [and] he has swapped Duff beer for soft drinks. [more inside]
Curious George. Ugh, Internet radio problems. How can get an uninterrupted stream? What players to use? Please share your success stories and techniques used.
419 is a Joke...
Or at least a game, to the Nigerian fraudsters who flood your e-mail with countless spams.
"The atmosphere of silent concentration inside the cafe is absolute, strangely reminiscent of a university library before exams. Except, that is, for the odd guffaw or cheer. The doors are locked from 10:30 p.m. until 7 a.m., so the cyber thieves can work in peace without fear of armed intruders."
[Via]
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Wiggliest Person ever! ...I've seen contortion...but this is amazing. (video link)
October 21, 2005
Fun Friday Flash! Alright you poo-flinging monkeys! The poop's on the other ground now! Catch a Sh1t! annoying repetitive loud music (unless you select "Track 3" from the options menu).
Curious, George: Déjà Vu
How often do you experience it? Does it bother you, or do you enjoy it? It never really bothered me until yesterday's David Copperfield post.
[more inside]
YA Intelligent Design Debate In which we forego the Flying Spaghetti Monster in favor of a Louisville Slugger.
Stanford University
comes to itunes. Lectures, interviews, music and more, and it's free, free, free!
via Mefi
So you may have heard of Flock, the new social browser based on Mozilla/Firefox code. It is made for blogging, Flickr, (other web apps) and includes an iPod-like interface for some things. Did I mention you can now download the developer release? (More inside) [more inside]
MASSAGE:
Alternative uses for the vibrator the ex-girlfriend left behind.
(Highly polished chrome, basic shape.)
No. 1) Switch to max' speed,
hold carefully in arthritic hands (golfing hold) for 5 minutes.
Result: Aaaaaahhhhhh .. Relief! Pain eased, typing possible.
Numbers 2 to 101 (uses) up for grabs.
October 20, 2005
Butter vs. Margarine Apparently loose on the Internets since June of 2003, Here's a rousing defense of our favorite spread! okay one of them. [more inside]
David Copperfield to impregnate a woman on stage. And the show will be SFW, besides.
Free the West Memphis Three
Most people are already familiar with the case of the three teenage boys who were convicted of the 1993 murders of three 8-year-old boys in West Memphis, AK. There are two documentaries about them which are well worth watching. The first documentary shows that the prosecution's case rested on a confession elicited from the weak link among the accused, a mentally diminished young man, and the filmmakers offer an alternative scenario, skillfully turning the righteous onscreen anger of one of the victim's stepparents against him to suggest that authorities ignored this more likely suspect. The boys are still in the process of appealing their cases, and you can help.
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Hiroshi Yoshii Online Portfolio
Strooth! A long way from Earls Court.
Whomsoever can catch a fly with chopsticks has eyes sharper than the flying eagle.
Curious, George: Student Loan Consolidation I need help navigating the maze of consolidating my student loans. [more inside]
Curious, George: Professional blogging pay rates. I've got a chance to get paid to write a blog for a growing poker website. Thing is, I have no idea how much I should charge for my services. How much do professional bloggers get paid? How much should I ask for, given that this gig would probably take about 10 hours a week? Would I be wise to take less cash upfront and get paid a share of the blog's revenue, or by pageviews/hits? [more inside]
October 19, 2005
Arrest warrant issued for DeLay Pardon my NewsFilter, but this was interesting to read. DeLay, until recently speaker of the U.S. House, is accused of laundering money to contribute to other Republican campaigns. DeLay's defense says the prosecution is politically motivated. [more inside]
The Northern Irish psyche is "not equipped to handle the 24-hour availability of alcohol"
How not to parent. I'm still new at this parent thing. But even I know better than these people. Just love the guy who called to report his car missing.
Bush-bashing Flash fun! A little Flash animation of our fearless POTUS getting bashed by bubbles. [more inside]
Chimp Kicks Smoking Habit A 27-year-old chimpanzee in a Chinese zoo quits her 16-year smoking habit.
PeltierBeer While drinking certain dark beers in the sun, I came to think about how to keep the beer cold until I finished it. Normally this isn't a big problem as I usually finish them before they get warm, but on really hot days this can be a problem. Having some hardware lying around in my apartment, I decided to build something that could keep the beer cool. Read on to see how I made my own PeltierBeer. [more inside]
Hurricane Wilma is now the strongest in history, clocking in at 882 millibars, though it would have to dip below 870 to beat the strongest typhoon [PDF]. Also we've run out of storm names for 2005, and are to start on the Greek alphabet. What a bizarre season.
EFF have cracked the code in printers which tracks you. The Secret Service has admitted they encode data into pages produced by some colour laser printers in order to track counterfeiters and others, however the data stored in the code was not known prior to EFF's discovery.
Curious George: Medical monkey! I want to get a very real and serious summary of human biology and the medical profession. What television shows/documentaries/books can you recommend? (I am used to covering a lot of material very quickly) [more inside]
Curious George: I Want Turquoise Highlights! Bestest cheapest place in Vancouver to give my dark brown hair light greeny-turquoise highlight? Or advice from the do-it-yourselfer?
"I Did Not Know That"...step-by-step instructions on how to do unusual things. Inspired by the cat restraint post, I found out how to restrain a camel. Then I wondered what other instructions there are out there for odd things you had no idea there'd be instructions for.
October 18, 2005
Penny-Arcade v. Jack Thompson FIGHT!! The synopsis: Annoying anti-video-game lawyer Jack Thompson offers to donate 10,000$ to charity if a someone develops a violent game about killing video game developers based on his idea. Gabe of Penny Arcade e-mails Jack to tell him about the Child's Play charity drive in which gamers donated over a half million dollars to children's hospitals. Jack calls Gabe and yells at him. Then things get weird... [more inside]
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.
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Google-Kai is the name of our SON. Brave new world
The Terror Threat Level Has Nothing to do whatsoever with the Cheney/Rove Headlines. Nope.
Commercials of Harry Egipt!
Treasures [?] from Estonia circa the 80's. Everything from the truly bizarre to social propaganda and in between...
[.mpg or .wmv files, a couple of which contain nudity, non-English site]
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Sociable, George: One more time! [more inside]
Ba Jin dies. Literary giant and one of the last direct links to the anarchist movement in early 20th century China, Ba Jin (a.k.a 李芾甘, Pa Chin) is perhaps best remembered for his trilogy 'Family ". When the Snow Melted.
Curious Poop Monkeys: Help me toilet train my too-smart-for-his-own-britches 3 1/2 yr old. [more inside]
Curious George: Keeping my wife warm! With the cooler weather a-coming, and the energy prices a-rising, the woman has tasked me with sealing up the drafty house. [more inside]
Two days too late for Sweetest Day: but you don't need Hallmark to be romantic. Here are some "easy to understand romantic love poems", "love stories for every mood and occasion", and "super hot tips to heat up the passion in your home" (the last link from "America's Romantic Expert"). [more inside]
October 17, 2005
Curious George: Fonts! I'm a small-potatoes publisher and once again I am faced with picking fonts for a new nonfiction title. Any fontaholics here? What are your favorite body text typefaces? [more inside]
Curious George: medicating a cat Our cat has had some serious medical problems lately, and we have to give her medication on a daily basis, probably off-and-on for the rest of her life. We have two problems: restraining her without hurting her or making her panic, and administering oral medication. [more inside]
The Aberree was a 'zine, or newletter, published from 1954 through 1965. The Aberree shows that convention and uniformity weren't the whole story of the 50s, by a long shot. It also shows that Scientology, which has grown famous for its attempts to silence dissent and criticism, was trying to squelch debate 50 years ago ... with similarly ineffective tactics.
The Catholic Church has Announced that the Bible isn't all true
Flu Wiki - A Wiki devoted to "help local communities prepare for and perhaps cope with a possible influenza pandemic." [more inside]
Curious George: Zombie Nookie Bandit. I'm sure this has happened to people other than me. And it's been mentioned here before... [more inside]
I can see the music! Oh sure, you may say you've got golden ears. But can you tell whst the music is by looking at the grooves?
Figgerin' it out
Is your motivation and who you are in the numbers of your name? .. Find your b'day meaning too.
DNS, Whois and other thought provoking stuff also on the site.
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.
Remember those Buddhas the Taliban blew up in 2001? A swiss dude called Paul Bucherer has a plan to rebuild the Buddhas of Bamiyan and has already raised over 1 million pounds to this end. The Buddhas, over 2000 years old, are said to have been built by craftsmen who came to the region with Alexander the great, and were an important Buddhist pilgrimage site when Genghis Khan conquered asia.
October 16, 2005
Curious, George: What would your super power be? [more inside]
Daws Butler - Voice Magician Voice of Elroy Jetson, Huckleberry Hound, Quickdraw McGraw, Yogi Bear, Cap'n Crunch, Snagglepuss and more. Link goes to the official Daws Butler website. "Exit, stage right."
For the 'Modern Gentleman' Observe the Latest Issue for "Fop Idol" .. and "Seduction and Doffing" as a song title rivets my gog. As in, "one is all agog, egad!"
Fountain phoon. Mountain phoon. Underwater phoon with an aqualung. Phoon in an underground cave. Village Chief phoon. Omo Masalai skeleton dance phoon. Military phoon. French phoon. Naboo phoon. Moon phoon! Goddam penguin phoon. Halloween phoon. More phoons than you can shake a stick at. Uh, what the hell is a phoon?
Popjisyo
is a web based pop-up dictionary for Japanese, Chinese, Korean and other languages.
Read foreign language web sites with pop-up hints by moving the mouse over words you want to lookup!
[more inside]
October 15, 2005
Monkeys for sale... and the woefully stupid cheap bastards who want them. [more inside]
Curious George: Make me a MOUNTAIN MAN! Help me find the coat that got away. [more inside]
MoFi Frapper Group Kind of like the MonkeyMap located at the wiki, but powered by Google Maps. Inspired by this thread on MetaTalk. Go ahead, add yourself. You know you want to.
Can your shopping list reveal your personality? This collector "[spouts] on about the possible personality of the person who wrote each list. I'm quite harsh at times, at others I feel a pang of compassion. Sometimes I just don't know what items are." [more inside]
Paper-Thin TV Screens
"Cheap, paper-thin TV screens that can be used in newspapers and magazines have been unveiled by German electronics giant Siemens."
Very cool!
Mickey Mouse tackles suicide among other topics including adultery and pedophilia, in a series of 15 comic strrips. Old, but worth a look if you've never seen it.
October 14, 2005
I am Librarian, Hear me roar! In which a Librarian uses Library Skills to put the SmackDown on a Junk Faxer, and comes away with a Cessna. via kottke
Dignity in USA
Dignity Village.
A 'front line' in the reality of America.
They are what they say they are, and get it done.
Check out JACK TAFARI's stuff.
The Kids In The Hall Season 1 and Season 2 are now available for free viewing on the CBC website, amongst other shows .
GOOMER! El gorron de las galaxias!
Noises off - stage left. Words fail me!
A dab of ephemera for your Friday pleasure: Blossom bears baby boy (with scary pic). Note: scary pic is of Blossom, not of the baby. Also, from the Department of WTF: Blossom has a Ph.D in neuroscience. Gnaw on that.
Meet Cage and Alice!! Testing the effects of habitual cocaine use on animals is NOT SAFE!
Someone knows a little to much about habitual massive cocaine use. I wonder why they gave the hamsters opium instead?
This is an extremely silly silly cartoon, that gets progressively worse each episode, until the mind altering and bending climax in Episode 5.
Curious George: attachments I am trying to figure out how to allow someone to attach a document. [more inside]
Amazing. I knew nothing about this. Apparently I was oblivious in 2002. [more inside]
October 13, 2005
I Fuckin' KNEW it: Smoking Dope makes your brain cells grow. Maybe.
Rock with your cock boobs out
The M in MP3 now stands for mammary.
Stolen Bikes. It's a multimillion dollar business. Do you live in one of these places? How about a college town? Are you also a bike enthusiast? If so, you're at risk for losing your ride. Trust me - I found out the hard way. [more inside]
16 Kids. Wants some more.
Michelle Duggar just delivered her 16th child, and she's already thinking about doing it again.
15 isn't enough for some folk.
Pinter's Prize Remember you saw it here first: Harold Pinter has been awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature. And not a moment too soon, if you ask me. [more inside]
Chinese Siege Warfare. A nicely illustrated history, which amongst a multitude of riches introduces us to Ming dynasty rocket infantry, a 3rd century B.C. 'machine gun' and includes a handy strategic geography should you ever fancy invading the Celestial Empire yourself. Via
An Exploratory Study of the Influence of Depression and Anxiety. This is an investigation into behavioural patterns behind those who entertain the idea of going missing. The purpose of the research is to better inform health and community services of this behavioural aspect of those with specific mood disorders....This study is open to anyone who has suffered from, or is currently suffering from, depression or anxiety.
chimpdate oct 2005
october 2005 all the fridays are 7-14-21-28.
is this rare number wise? or am I just scratching my banana?
K+K Mimes
Go to the merchandise page and check out the trailers.
British Food - apparently it does exist.
Timecube... the RPG [found by using the wayback machine]
Hey Lookit! Robots! Pick out the one you like or the one that looks the most like you.
Free Bike Clinic on Sunday for all Monkeys and MeFites. Need your chain cleaned? Have a flat tire? Want to learn to adjust your brakes? Come on out and get a free tune-up, pitch in your own skills with repairs, or just hang out. Full details at the MeTa link.
The Quark Series A series of images meant to represent the family of quarks. [more inside]
October 12, 2005
The Cat's Eye
Other photographs.
No one knows for certain when OpenOffice.org 2.0 stable will be released, but Mad Penguin's bet is that the stable 2.0 release will come before any recently purchased cartons of milk expire in your refrigerator.
Curious George: Help me steal music! I am putting together a soundtrack for a small coffee shop an it's gotta be BeBop. I am looking for out of print, obscure, and rare recordings to put on the playlist. Do any monkeys out there have any audio blog links that could help me out?
Curious, George: Linux Printing Software I am looking for a Linux based printer server software that will install and run on a low spec pc and give me a really user-friendly, web based user interface; something like Smoothwall... but for printing. [more inside]
Bush's Body Language
But this much could be seen watching the tape of NBC's broadcast during Bush's 14-minute pre-sunrise interview, in which he stood unprotected by the usual lectern. The president was a blur of blinks, taps, jiggles, pivots and shifts.
Also see his weird jaw thing. Then there's the 10 year thing.
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Say it's not so, Maya . . . [more inside]
Combatting Caste
‘In the rainy season,’ the woman began, ‘it is really bad. Water mixes with the shit and when we carry it (on our heads) it drips from the baskets, on to our clothes, our bodies, our faces. When I return home I find it difficult to eat food sometimes. The smell never gets out of my clothes, my hair. But this is our fate. To feed my children I have no option but to do this work.’
via New Internationalist
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Margaret Cho busts a rhyme with Wayne Brady
More proof that it's time for a new top for the foodchain.
Congratulations to China on the successful launch of their 2nd manned space flight: "Wen said in his congratulation speech minuets ago that "We launches Shenzhou-6 out of peaceful purpose."
October 11, 2005
Thog's Masterclass Some of the most impressively badly-written lines of SF ever published. [more inside]
The name is Craig, Daniel Craig allegedly, which will please F8xmulder, Koko, and myself.
"Ninja" by 7 Seconds of Love - animation by Joel Veitch of rathergood.com. Requires FLASH. Has nice bass. [more inside]
Where's my cheese, eh? Kanuck cheese-maturer looses 2000-pound cheddar in fjord!
My Tissue Box Cover Collection
It's America's Internet You just surf here. [more inside]
Gastrointestinal Surgery on the Pitcher's Mound?
With a ballplayer named Colon (pronounced Coe-LOEN), such headlines are inevitable, but he really wasn't all there tonight, so... ;
This site really should support the baseball team with a Rally Monkey.
The 7 deadly since, from a modern perspective. I'm sure each of us will have our favorite. [more inside]
Darwin's tortiose? Harriet is heading for her 175th birthday!
October 10, 2005
Spam Stock Tracker records how stocks touted via spam have performed. [more inside]
Crony Jobs Get the job you're entitled to!
Crack Squirrels. And not the 'send 'em in first / stormtrooper' type of crack.
Wallace and Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit Slideshow, courtesy of the New York Times, on "Wallace and Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit," with voice-over from creator Nick Park.
My review of Dr. Ted Rothstein's cosmetic braces.
Odd braces fetishist site showing off his cosmetic metalwork... with SEXY results.
Very SFW; no relation.
Filiberto Ojeda Rios leader of Puerto Rico's independence movement was shot at his hideout by the FBI on Sept 23, 2005. [more inside]
October 09, 2005
Curious George: Half Birthdays
I've known about half birthdays for a long time now, but every time I mention them, someone seems to need to be informed. What I was wondering is how many people actually know about half birthdays, and for those of you who don't know, how many of you can figure it out.
Here's a clue: My birthday is April 7th and my half birthday is October 7th.
It's not that hard to figure out.
Also, when are your half birthdays?
Unicef Bombs the Smurfs
Massive Banana to the first monkey who finds film of this online.
Holy Smoke, they did it. Robot cars cross the desert! It was the DARPA challenge. Navigate through 240 km of rocky desert terrain for a prize of $2M. The results this year were amazing. Four robots made it. Even more so considering the fiasco of last year's race.
7.6 tremor hits S. Asia. Pakistan has the largest causalties--around 18,000 people dead and 41,000 wounded. India and Afghanistan were also affected with several hundred dead. Buildings in the capitol cities of all three countries swayed for a full minute. [more inside]
Yuni-
is a very large quote, story, and poetry site.
It houses perhaps one of the web's largest collection of Latin quotes, but does not even stop there, with many stories and poetry to be found.
The 29 Healthiest Foods on the Planet
- A "healthy food hot list" consisting of the 29 foods that will give you the biggest nutritional bang for you caloric buck, as well as decrease your risk for deadly illnesses like cancer, diabetes and heart disease. Along with each description is a suggestion as to how to incorporate these power-foods into your diet.
Feel free to add your own tips on healthy fooooooood.
October 08, 2005
Senator Simian Says Make Your Own Laws!
Ok...it's really Senator Simitian, but I like the idea.
What's your law?
25 Words That Can Hurt Your Résumé
- The most successful job seekers list specific accomplishments in their résumés instead of vague, stereotypical claims.
This article describes the sorts of things to look out for in your existing resume & will help you avoid sterile and empty generalisations.
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So many drugs, so little time. An amazing photographic history of New York's debauched club scene in the 1970's taken by Allan Tannenbaum. NSFW!! As well as a large listing of his other photo's. [more inside]
October 07, 2005
What kind of banana are you?
Stolen from metachat
This year's Ignobel winners! It's a rich crop. The velocity of penguin poo, Neuticles, locusts watching Star Wars, and smelly frogs. Science is glamorous! [more inside]
Free Dylan! Dylan Thomas that is. On February 22, 1952, Dylan Thomas made his first recording for Caedmon Records, "A Child's Christmas in Wales and Five Poems." It was the first of many albums Thomas was to record for Caedmon and the recording not only launched Caedmon as a company, but initiated the spoken-word industry as well. Free via Salon [more inside]
Brits are exciting!
Cast off the pinstripe suit, the bowler hat and throw away the tightly furled umbrella, us Brits are the "most extroverted and open to new experiences of any of the groups studied."
According to a Science Magazine survey.
Also proved: Swiss Germans are conscientious, Czechs are nice and Yanks are also extrovert ... but so are Canadians ....
Curious, George: How do you think history will describe our era? Will the dominant narrative describe our era as The dawning of the Chinese Era, or America: the building of an empire, or The decline of American dominance, or The global-warming tipping point, or The war between militant Islam and the West, or The corporatization of life around the globe, or The creation of two global economic classes, or The spread of democracy, or Sowing the seeds of political revolution, or Countdown to the Singularity, or The last days leading up to the Rapture, or The human experiment is a failure, Remulac. Set a course for our home galaxy!, or something else altogether?
Afroditi’s Ring is the rediscovery of the ancient signet ring. By Afroditikrassa the groovy industrial design consultants. [via]
Nicole (as in Kidman) traverses oceans just for a shag.
October 06, 2005
Canadian Pulp Fiction, 1940 - 1952 [more inside]
This entry discusses the etymology and application of a selection of words that, to varying degrees, can be considered vulgar or offensive. As a necessity, this entails the use of said words, and it is strongly advised that, should you find such words distressing or inappropriate, you do not read on beyond this point</b>.
Bush: God told me to go invade Iraq. I pass this link on without comment.
The Rum and Monkey 3rd Grade Name Generator. Outside of the awesome domain name, this is one of a berzillion funny name generators, but if you don't like it you're just Lieutenant Penis B. Dweeberson!
Curious, George: Desktop Publishing Software Where can I find free Desktop Publishing software suitable for making cheap posters and flyers for events on a Windows XP computer? [more inside]
The British Council's art collection is now online (or at least, its database featuring images of most of the works). Here's a monkey. The Council runs hundreds of cultural projects all over the world.
Jackson Does Halo. The LOTR director has agreed to take on the film version of the popular game. [more inside]
Never eat anything bigger than your head Python: 0, Gator:0.
October 05, 2005
Tommy and Katie are expecting a baby. I'm expecting to be horrified. Yes, we here at MonkeyFilter normally discuss the loftier aspects of life, but we're always open for some good ol' Tommy-bashing. Gentlemen, start your slander..! [more inside]
Care Bear Stare!
We Monkeys could invent better catch phrases with our tails behind our backs! I know, of course, that you can't 'make' a catch phrase, but silliness must prevail in the face of logic.
Propose three, and, if desired, how and when one might say them.
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The threat -- avian flu. The Bush response. Reaction to the Bush response.
Baby sloths. Lily the biter, Mogli and Mogwai, Nemo, and more. [via] [more inside]
The Mad Revisionist A "series of essays dedicated to the manufacturing of truth through the discarding of evidence." Sample articles: The Moon: A Propaganda Hoax and The Parthenon: A Post-Hellenistic Fabrication.
Another Gospel This month, a book (.pdf) comes out, which will expose who really wrote Shakespeare's plays. Not everyone trusts the scholarship the book is based on, however.
Curious George movie coming He looks a little weird, and Yellow Hat looks like Inspector Gadget... we'll see.
Shark-Be-Gone In light of all this ocean hysteria among Monkeys - the shark attacks, self-impaling-and-impregnating giant squid, and now the gooey glowy things - here's some better news. Though it won't save you from giant balls of snot or an amorous Arcteuthis, it could make a shark think twice about bugging you in the water. [more inside]
Dolphin taught to sing the 'Batman' theme - beat that, chimps. [more inside]
pallalink / from osaka, japan [via]
October 04, 2005
Bike Pr0n Fantastic photos for fixie fetishists.
Kirk-Spock romance website. Tons of fan art and stories. (first pages SFW). If Kirk & Spock aren't your thing, there's a whole smorgasbord on Usenet (NSFW). via
Curious Six Degrees Name Dropping George.
Six degrees of separation between you and everyone else in the world, they say. But I bet Monkeys could get to famous people with fewer. The rules: A degree counts only if you know someone and they *also* know you by name. Let me start: my sister works with someone whose sister lives in a French village close to John Malkovich. John knows her by name. That means I'm four degrees away from Malky. Perhaps he'll let me crash at his house.
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RIP Nipsey Russell Nipsey Russell, who died Sunday at 81, was a pioneering black comedian who was successful enough to became ubiquitous as a guest on game shows, among other venues, setting him up as the kind of celebrity of whom nobody is quite sure how he got there or why. Yet Russell was part of a generation for whom appearing in regular television roles was itself a step forward.
Anonymous George: need advice on gastroplasty, etc. My fiancée Pat received a call last night from her Aunt Janet telling her that Pat’s 54 year old mom, Carla, was admitted to the hospital for breathing problems. [more inside]
Xena and Gabrielle, together forever. Scientists have dubbed celestial object 2003 UB313 'Xena', and her orbiting moon 'Gabrielle'. Aww... so cute. [more inside]
Ronnie Barker has died.
Star of The Two Ronnies, Open All Hours and my fave, Porridge, died today aged 76. Ah.
Sorry for the newsfilter, but he was a top funny chap.
Illiterate sets up library.
...nearly all the books are mysteries. Born into a poor family, he dropped out of school after third grade and, at 51, is practically illiterate...books, he knows, are the gateway to a life of greater possibility and more promise than his own.
So bloomed the passion that has consumed Leite's free time over the last two years: transforming his home into a public library...
Roy Moore, Governor? The guy who disobeyed a federal order banning the placement of the 10 commandments memorial on federal property is now running for Governor of Alabama. [more inside]
MoFi CDX V:
It is that time again. Please go to the above link to vote on a date. If you want in, be sure to email me at the new and improved MoFi CDX email address: moficdx@gmail.com
If you need schoolin' in the rules of the swap, visit the subsite.
Drop your questions here or over there.
When did you stop beating your wife?
MoveOn.org (a prominent liberal USAian political action group) has put out a call for dirt (in the guise of "research") about SCOTUS nominee Harriet Miers, with such questions as "What was her record at the head of the scandal-ridden Texas Lottery Commission?" and "White House Council Alberto Gonzales played a pivotal role in softening Americas stance on torture. What positions has Harriet Miers advocated for in the same role?"
via LostRemote
October 03, 2005
Find the Brownie!
The objective of this blog is to find an important government job occupied by a person with no apparent qualifications other than strong personal, political, or business ties to a member of the administration.
You'll do a heck of a job.via
NaNoWriMoDoPo It's that time of the year again. I'm not going to sign up, since giving up after 120 words last year was a little embarrassing. [more inside]
Cool and poignant video
... that makes you think about memories, aloneness, rooming houses, friends, happiness and...running! Oh yeah, and photos. Lots of photos.
The music is called "Breathe Me" by Sia. (requires Quicktime) 4 mins.
Not surprisingly, non-English speakers don't pronounce "@" as "At." What is surprising is that many of them agree that it looks like a monkey. The Albanians call it "the monkey sign," the Germans call it "the clinging monkey," and the Swedish call it "an ape's tail." It's not all siman-related, though; the author relates a conversation with an Israeli who gave his e-mail address as "Winkie M, Strudel, Yahoo dot com"...
Miers for SCOTUS? Dubya has nominated Harriet Miers to fill the other vacant supreme court seat. Very little is known about her politics, but all sides agree: She's never been a judge. [more inside]
Four Word Film Review If you like your reviews short and sweet, this is the place.
More for the Monet Joan's Monets: 'Every Christmas my Aunt Joan gives me a Monet calendar. After a couple years the same old paintings become dull. So she started enhancing the master's works...' Via plep [more inside]
The Gitmo Cookbook (ugh)
October 02, 2005
Strong as a Monkey -- (blurb ...in German. Attempted translation within.) [more inside]
Khmer Rouge Cafe. A new Cambodian cafe is offering diners a slice of life under the Khmer Rouge, with a menu featuring rice-water and leaves, and waitresses dressed in the black fatigues worn by Pol Pot's ultra-Maoist guerrillas. [more inside]
What's the ugliest part of your body? What's the ugliest, part of your body, oh-oh, some say your nose, some say your toes but I don't think it's your mi-iind. The synapse revealed. I think it's my new desktop.
Cambridge in Color (via that other site)
Google SF.
Google offers a bid to provide free city-wide WiFi in San Francisco. Some project that this is just the first big step at providing nation-wide WiFi.
MIT's Media Lab announces $100 Linux Laptop initiative. No, you can't buy one. But they may change the distribution of education in Africa, India, Brazil, and yes, Boston and Detroit. (more inside) [more inside]
Something artful this way comes Although a place to buy art online, I especially like the Features Section from their online magazine. Includes Baghdad Journal, by Steve Mumford, an artist embedded for a year with U.S. forces. [more inside]
Oceania Postcards and Picture Galleries The images of Oceania are both diverse and fascinating. [Caution: possibly some may be considered NSFW by the stodgy.] Via Eye of the Goof
October 01, 2005
Curious George: Calming Corporate IT Any help convincing a corporate IT department that Mozilla isn't spyware? [more inside]
More Bali Bombings. Do we have any Bali monkeys on board? Please let us know you're okay. [more inside]
The Flying Mobulas of the Sea of Cortez
CSS 2.1 selectors, Part 1
"Among the first things you learn when you start out with CSS are selectors. Selectors are a fundamental part of CSS, but few developers use them to their full potential.
Learning how to use the full range of CSS selectors available in CSS 2.1 properly can actually help you keep your HTML a lot cleaner. It will let you minimise unnecessary use of the class attribute and the need for adding extraneous div and span elements to the markup."
when the frost is on the pumpkin!
from one monkey to another,
when the weathers hot and sticky
it's not the time for dunkin dicky
but when the frost is on the pumpkin
now thats the time for dicky dunking.
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Happy feel-good,links [more inside]
Who wants to be? They are. In a country where 25% of the population lives below the poverty line, and the average monthly salary is $200 or less, they are having a fair. [more inside]
