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Molecules with Silly or Unusual Names

This page describes tons of bizarrely named molecules. Some of the better ones:

Arsole
Cummingtonite
Dickite
Moronic Acid
Fukalite
Fucitol
Erotic Acid
Crapinon
Fruticolone
Fukugetin
Spamol
Uranate
Clitoriacetal
Vaginatin
Anol
Fornacite
Clitorin
Constipatic Acid
Fucol
Penguinone
Betweenanene (Screwene)
Furfuryl Furfurate
Ptelefolone
Miazole and Urazole
dUMP
BARF
Profilactin
Crocidolite
Megatomic Acid
SEX
Erectone
Mirasorvone
Snottites
SnOT
Forskolin

Drug Slang

Tons of of 'em. Some of the more interesting selections:

Alice - LSD or mushrooms
Amp - amphetamine
Antifreeze - heroin
Artillery - equipment for injecting drugs
Balling - vaginally implanted cocaine
Blaze - to smoke marijuana
Bogart a joint - salivate on a marijuana cigarette; refuse to share
Boofing - expelling concealed drugs from your body
Buttons - mescaline
California cornflakes - cocaine
California sunshine - LSD
Candy flip - 1 hit xtc per three hit(s) lsd
Cheeba - marijuana
Christina - methamphetamine
Chronic - marijuana
Crank - methamphetamine; amphetamine; methcathinone
Dank - marijuana or pot
El Cid - LSD
Fatty - marijuana cigarette
Florida snow - cocaine
Ganja - marijuana from Jamaica
Glass gun - hypodermic needle
God's flesh - psilocybin/psilocin
Herb - marijuana
Horse - heroin
Instant zen - LSD
Juan Valdez - marijuana
Juanita - marijuana
Kentucky blue - marijuana
KGB (killer green bud) - marijuana
Kind bud - marijuana
Lady caine - cocaine
Leary's - LSD
Loused - covered by sores and abscesses from repeated use of unsterile needles
Lucky Charmz - ecstacy
420 - marijuana
Mind detergent - LSD
Panama gold - marijuana
Powder diamonds - cocaine
Purple haze - LSD
Robotripping - drinking robotussin to trip
Sandoz - LSD
Shaman - peyote
Shwag - low grade marijuana
Skunk - sticky marijuana
Snow white - cocaine
Spark it up - to smoke marijuana
Speedball - heroin and cocaine; amphetamine
Spliff - marijuana cigarette
Sunshine - LSD
Thrusters - amphetamine
Tweeker - a person addicted to meythamphetamines
Uzi - crack; crack pipe
Vitamin E - ecstasy
Whippets - nitrous oxide
Wired for sound - fully amped
Yuppie Flu - the ongoing effects of a cocaine-snorting habit

"That Wacky Bible!"

More absurd passages from "the holy book" in an attempt to illustrate why the bible should not be word for word.

All quotations are from the King James version, simply because I was prompted to compile these as a reaction against the people who use the bible to claim homosexuality is wrong. They generally quote Leviticus's "If a man also lie with mankind, as he lieth with a woman, both of them have committed an abomination" (20:13) or "Thou shalt not lie with mankind, as with womankind: it is abomination." (18:22)The language of these passages indicate the King James Version and I find it interesting some of the other things the KJV lists as abominations (shellfish and weighted scales, among them). Other versions of the bible (including the New International Version, the best selling English language translation) replace the word abomination with detestable, but the zealots seem to prefer quoting the versions with "abomination" in them.

So here we go:

• Extreme punishment for people who work through the weekend - Six days shall work be done, but on the seventh day there shall be to you an holy day, a sabbath of rest to the LORD: whosoever doeth work therein shall be put to death. (Exodus 35:2)
• Shellfish are an "abomination" - And all that have not fins and scales in the seas, and in the rivers, of all that move in the waters, and of any living thing which is in the waters, they shall be an abomination unto you:They shall be even an abomination unto you; ye shall not eat of their flesh, but ye shall have their carcases in abomination.Whatsoever hath no fins nor scales in the waters, that shall be an abomination unto you. (Leviticus 11:10-12)
• Menstruating women (and everything they touch) are unclean - And if a woman have an issue, and her issue in her flesh be blood, she shall be put apart seven days: and whosoever toucheth her shall be unclean until the even. And every thing that she lieth upon in her separation shall be unclean: every thing also that she sitteth upon shall be unclean. And whosoever toucheth her bed shall wash his clothes, and bathe himself in water, and be unclean until the even. And whosoever toucheth any thing that she sat upon shall wash his clothes, and bathe himself in water, and be unclean until the even. And if it be on her bed, or on any thing whereon she sitteth, when he toucheth it, he shall be unclean until the even. And if any man lie with her at all, and her flowers be upon him, he shall be unclean seven days; and all the bed whereon he lieth shall be unclean. (Leviticus 15:19-24)
• Don't mix crops in a field, or wear clothing that's part wool, part linen - thou shalt not sow thy field with mingled seed: neither shall a garment mingled of linen and woollen come upon thee. (Leviticus 19:19)
• Gays are an "abomination" - Thou shalt not lie with mankind, as with womankind: it is abomination. (Leviticus 18:22)
• Don't shave certain parts of your facial hair - Ye shall not round the corners of your heads, neither shalt thou mar the corners of thy beard (Leviticus 19:27)
• No tattoos - Ye shall not make any cuttings in your flesh for the dead, nor print any marks upon you (Leviticus 19:28)
• Gay sex is an "abomination" and all gays must die - If a man also lie with mankind, as he lieth with a woman, both of them have committed an abomination: they shall surely be put to death; their blood shall be upon them. (Leviticus 20:13)
• Having sex when a woman is menstruating can get you exiled - And if a man shall lie with a woman having her sickness, and shall uncover her nakedness; he hath discovered her fountain, and she hath uncovered the fountain of her blood: and both of them shall be cut off from among their people (Leviticus 20:18)
• Strict requirements for church-goers (or clergy) - Speak unto Aaron, saying, Whosoever he be of thy seed in their generations that hath any blemish, let him not approach to offer the bread of his God. For whatsoever man he be that hath a blemish, he shall not approach: a blind man, or a lame, or he that hath a flat nose, or any thing superfluous, Or a man that is brokenfooted, or brokenhanded, Or crookbackt, or a dwarf, or that hath a blemish in his eye, or be scurvy, or scabbed, or hath his stones broken; (Leviticus 21:17-20)
• Rules for your bible-approved slaves - Both thy bondmen, and thy bondmaids, which thou shalt have, shall be of the heathen that are round about you; of them shall ye buy bondmen and bondmaids. Moreover of the children of the strangers that do sojourn among you, of them shall ye buy, and of their families that are with you, which they begat in your land: and they shall be your possession. (Leviticus 25:44-45)
• Crooked scales are an "abomination" - A false balance is abomination to the LORD: but a just weight is his delight. (Proverbs 11:1)

I'll add more to this list as I learn about them.

Life in the Future: Roomba

From Mobile PC - Features - The Top 100 Gadgets of All Time

Forget the broom and vacuum -- no device in the history of mankind has been able to terrorize pets (and clean floors) as efficiently as the Roomba, the first household robot for many buyers. Artificial intelligence lets the device do all the tidying and terrorizing while you're away, so your shell-shocked cat sees you as savior rather than tormentor. The latest Roomba, the Discovery, has a longer run time of 120 minutes, a faster charging time, and it returns to its charging station when it's almost out of juice.

I am one of the first people on the planet to own a robot maid. Ever. Now when do I get my flying car?

Ecstasy trials for combat stress

From society.guardian.co.uk:

American soldiers traumatised by fighting in Iraq and Afghanistan are to be offered the drug ecstasy to help free them of flashbacks and recurring nightmares.

The US food and drug administration has given the go-ahead for the soldiers to be included in an experiment to see if MDMA, the active ingredient in ecstasy, can treat post-traumatic stress disorder.
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The South Carolina study marks a resurgence of interest in the use of controlled psychedelic and hallucinogenic drugs. Several studies in the US are planned or are under way to investigate whether MDMA, LSD and psilocybin, the active ingredient in magic mushrooms, can treat conditions ranging from obsessive compulsive disorder to anxiety in terminal cancer patients.

Japan's version of "Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind"

Professionals help forget a broken heart

Japanese bothered by an unforgettable romance that later soured and continues to
niggle need never worry again, because the wasuresaseya are there to help them
forget their lost love, claims Spa! (2/22).

Wasuresaseya, which literally means "professionals who make you forget," exist to help people get over -- or get out of -- relationships they may once have wanted to remember forever but have now developed a change of heart.
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Clients using the wasuresaseya first attend an interview with a psychological counselor where they explain such processes as the relationship they'd been involved in and why they can't forget it now it's over.

Based on what goes on in that session, the client is introduced to the wasuresaseya, who begins the person-to-person "rehabilitation of the mind," as the pros call the forgetting process.

"Wasuresaseya calm down the client, pick them up by focusing on their pain, or totally ignoring it if that's the best approach. With some clients, treatment is a matter of constantly reminding them to forget, while with others we can't even touch on what it is that they're not supposed to have on their mind," Miss M says. "We've got to be really careful about the words we use."

DNA Tech: Bigger Boobies

Stem cells turn into breast implants

Silicon breast implants could be replaced by tissue grown from a person's own stem cells within a decade, suggests new research.

Jeremy Mao of the University of Illinois, in Chicago, US, took human stem cells and used these to grow fat tissue using a biologically compatible scaffolding. He then successfully implanted the tissue into mice with an immune deficiency to prevent them from rejecting the implants. The implants had maintained their size and shape after four weeks.

'This is a project that builds on previous knowledge to develop a stem cell material that could be useful in society,' says Mao. "It seems promising and could soon be making an impact."
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Eventually Mao says the technique could be used to develop more suitable tissue for reconstructive surgery as well as cosmetic augmentation.

The experiment involved key-hole surgery to extract mesenchymal stem cells from human bone marrow. These 'master cells' can grow into various other different types of cells, including bone cartridge and fat. Mao coaxed them to develop into fat cells by mimicking the conditions that would cause this to happen in the human body.

Dead Parrot

Monty Python sketch plays out in real life:

An indignant Israeli is suing a pet shop that he says sold him a dying parrot, reports the Ma'ariv newspaper. Itzik Simowitz of the southern city of Beersheba contends the shop cheated him because the Galerita-type cockatoo not only failed to utter a word when he got it home, but was also extremely ill. Mr. Simowitz adds that the shop owner assured him the parrot was not ill but merely needed time to adjust to its new environment.

another one of Grant Morrison's images comes to life

Cloud Gateway (a.k.a. "The Bean") in Chicago's Millennium Park looks a lot like "magic mirror" has breached the barrier between the real world and wherever Grant Morrison's mind lives... I guess we better start preparing for the supercontext.

Rat brain flies jet

More accurately, a brain in a dish made from rat neurons flew a virtual plane:

Florida scientists have grown a brain in a petri dish and taught it to fly a fighter plane.

Scientists at the university of Florida taught the 'brain', which was grown from 25,000 neural cells extracted from a rat embryo, to pilot an F-22 jet simulator. It was taught to control the flight path, even in mock hurricane-strength winds.

"When we first hooked them up, the plane 'crashed' all the time," Dr Thomas DeMarse, an assistant professor of biomedical engineering at the University of Florida, said. "But over time, the neural network slowly adapts as the brain learns to control the pitch and roll of the aircraft. After a while, it produces a nice straight and level trajectory."

The brain-in-a-dish was DeMarse' idea. To produce it, 25,000 rat neurones were suspended in a specialised liquid to keep them alive and then laid across a grid of 60 electrodes in a small glass dish.

If Woody had gone straight to the police...

From The Walter Lantz Cartune Encyclopedia: Frequently Asked Questions:

Which cartoon featured the line: "If Woody had gone straight to the police, this would never have happened!"?

The cartoon was called "Bunco Busters" (1955). Directed by Paul J. Smith.

A few thoughts:

First of all, how frequently are ANY questions being asked about Woody Woodpecker?

Second, it's probably been over 15 years since I've seen a Woody Woodpecker cartoon but I have never forgotten that line... Why is that?

Monster Thickburger

Newest Gut Bomb in Burger Wars Is Audacity on a Bun

By Julie Tamaki, Times Staff Writer
January 10, 2005

The hottest new hamburger at Hardee's is an unabashedly unhealthful mountain of meat called the Monster Thickburger.

Loaded with two 1/3-pound Angus beef patties, four strips of bacon and three slices of cheese, slathered with a generous glob of mayonnaise and encased in a buttered bun, it's not exactly a celebration of calorie counting.

Who's counting? When the 1,420-calorie, 107-fat-gram behemoth was unleashed, people gobbled it up.
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Hardee's has received fan mail from people grateful for the guilty pleasure of the Monster Thickburger (about the equivalent in calories of two Big Macs and a strawberry sundae at McDonald's) and offended that health watchdogs would want to take it away from them.

"While other restaurants were a bunch of Nancy-boys and became low-carb cowards in the face of moronic 'they made me fat' lawsuits, you did the AMERICAN thing," John Frensley, a 22-year-old college student from Texas, wrote in an e-mail, "by spitting in the face of lawyers, nutritionists and food-nazi types and offering a monument to Americanism."

We are doomed.

The Official Ninja Webpage: REAL Ultimate Power!!!!

This site's been around for years but I wanted to document it here.

The Official Ninja Webpage

Hi, this site is all about ninjas, REAL NINJAS. This site is awesome. My name is Robert and I can't stop thinking about ninjas. These guys are cool; and by cool, I mean totally sweet.

Facts:
1. Ninjas are mammals.
2. Ninjas fight ALL the time.
3. The purpose of the ninja is to flip out and kill people.

Testimonial:
Ninjas can kill anyone they want! Ninjas cut off heads ALL the time and don't even think twice about it. These guys are so crazy and awesome that they flip out ALL the time. I heard that there was this ninja who was eating at a diner. And when some dude dropped a spoon the ninja killed the whole town. My friend Mark said that he saw a ninja totally uppercut some kid just because the kid opened a window.

And that's what I call REAL Ultimate Power!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

If you don't believe that ninjas have REAL Ultimate Power you better get a life right now or they will chop your head off!!! It's an easy choice, if you ask me.

Ninjas are sooooooooooo sweet that I want to crap my pants. I can't believe it sometimes, but I feel it inside my heart. These guys are totally awesome and that's a fact. Ninjas are fast, smooth, cool, strong, powerful, and sweet. I can't wait to start yoga next year. I love ninjas with all of my body (including my pee pee).

Q and A:.

Q: Why is everyone so obsessed about ninjas?
A: Ninjas are the ultimate paradox. On the one hand they don't give a crap, but on the other hand, ninjas are very careful and precise.

Q: I heard that ninjas are always cruel or mean. What's their problem?
A: Whoever told you that is a total liar. Just like other mammals, ninjas can be mean OR totally awesome.

Q: What do ninjas do when they're not cutting off heads or flipping out?
A: Most of their free time is spent flying, but sometime they stab. (Ask Mark if you don't believe me.)

another monkey list

"The Canonical List of Super Non-Human Simians" is like the "Index of Famous Monkeys" list mentioned earlier, but focuses on those primates with super powers.

Frederic Wertham was right!

This article talks about an issue of X-Men (during Grant Morrison's run on the book) that is filled with subliminal instances of the word "SEX." Gotta love the madness of Morrison...

Mr. Potato Head Darth Tater

This is just too funny.

PLAYSKOOL is proud to announce the launch of the new character, Darth Tater, just in time for the theatrical release of Revenge of the Sith. There's all kinds of mix 'n match, MR. POTATO HEAD fun with this wacky spud dressed as Darth Vader.
The package comes with lots of silly parts, including lightsaber, cape, helmet, shoes, eyes, nose, teeth and more!

and the eskimos have twenty words for "snow"

These are all from posts on Richy's Random Ramblings

This page features a list of over 2000 different names for male genitalia. They range from the common (dick) to the scientific (penis glans) to the funny (purple helmeted yogurt thrower) to the wft??? (cheesy wheelbarrow).

Sadly, this page only lists 172 names for the female genitals (Venus highway, Fort Bushy) and 129 for breasts (hooters, love bubbles).

Now that we have names for them... this page lists euphemisms for what we do with them... at least when we're alone. 581 for guys (polish Vader's helmet, visiting Rosy Palm and her five daughters), but only 35 for women (row the boat, slam the clam). Clearly some of us are more obsessed than others.

Oddly, the site does not have a page of euphemisms for sex with a partner... poor Richy.

Old Testament Bible verses that are ignored

This is an interesting (though very angry) page about how people will quote Leviticus 20:13 when referring to gay sex as an abomination yet seem to forget a lot of other parts of that book... such as:

"If a man lies with a woman during her sickness and uncovers her nakedness, he has discovered her flow, and she has uncovered the flow of her blood. Both of them shall be cut off from her people." (Leviticus 20:18)

"Do not cut the hair at the sides of your head or clip off the edges of your beard." (Leviticus 19:27)

"...do not plant your field with two kinds of seed. Do not wear material woven of two kinds of material." (Leviticus 19:19)

"Your male and female slaves are to come from the nations around you; from them you may buy slaves. You may also buy some of the temporary residents living among you and members of their clans born in your country, and they will become your property." (Leviticus 25:44-45)

Seems like there's all sorts of stuff in Leviticus (and the rest of the bible) that people are willing to overlook... except when it comes to two dudes kissing.

Superhero/villain Name Generator

This is fun. Here are a few randomly generated names:

• Autosaur
• Baron Insect
• Doctor Sorceror
• Electrotronic
• Emperor Ultralock
• Hammerquake
• Miss Karma
• Necrobeetle
• Pharoah Psychomystic
• Prince Sapphire
• Red Tyrant
• Voltagevore
• White Wind
• Woodtron

New York Underground

From BoingBoing:

Julia Solis is an urban archaeologist who explores the subterranean mysteries and ruins of New York City and other locales. For years, she's chronicled her adventures through photographic evidence and essays posted on her Dark Passage Web site. Now, Routledge has published New York Underground, a stunning monograph of Solis's journey into the underworld.

"Did alligators ever really live in New York's sewers? What's it like to explore the old aqueducts beneath the city? How many levels are beneath Grand Central Station? And how exactly did the pneumatic tube system that New York's post offices used to employ work? In this richly illustrated historical tour of New York's vast underground systems, Julia Solis answers all these questions and much, much more.

New York Underground is timed to release in the centennial year of the city's subway system. It takes readers through ingenious criminal escape routes, abandoned subway stations, and dark crypts beneath lower Manhattan to expose the city's basic anatomy. While the city is justly famous for what lies aboveground, its underground passages are equally legendary, and tell us just as much about how the city works."

LetterJames

Incorporate your own personalized messages on a variety of unlikely places including the Berlin Wall, Highway signs, and in soup!

Time Cube

Gene Ray has come up with his own theory about time. Here are some tidbits from his website:

I have demonstrated absolute proof of "Cubic Creation", through its attributes of 4 simultaneous 24 hour days within a single rotation of Earth.

Greenwich Time is a Lie
Your midday is someone else's midnight, someone else's sundown and even someone else's sunup. Do you know that time is a simultaneous 4 corner square that rotates to a 4 day time cube within 1 - 24 hour rotation of Earth? You are educated stupid and unable to know Nature's
4-Day Time Cube Creation.



God created only a single 24 hour day rotation of Earth, while I have created 4 simultaneous 24 hour days within a single rotation of Earth - therefore, I am wiser than the word god, and all word worshipers. All words are fictitious.

Educated cubeless stupid, you think stupid. Why worship a dumb 1 day god when I demonstrate 4 simultaneous 24 hour days within a single 24 hour rotation of Earth? Linear, singularity and trinity equate to evil math within Nature's Cubic Creation

Creation of life occurs between 2 opposites.
You're too stupid to know opposite creation.
1 day singularity dooms Oppositehumanity.
1 god singularity dooms Opposite Creation.
Opposite Creation dooms human singularity.
There's no human entity, only corner Cubics, rotating life's 4 corner stage metamorphosis.
4 corner head has 1 corner face, 4 face life.
Educated fools can't comprehend Cubicism.

I'm not sure if I follow his theory, but I'm definitely infected with his enthusiasm!

El Nino, lightning, and Walt Whitman

A small collection of supposedly real essays written by some fine products of our nation's education system.

Some of the wisdom contained within:

Coming in like El Nino!
by Jeremy Lavine

El Nino is... a deadly storm that kills people and burns down trees....
El Nino is caused when the Peruvian gods get angry...
The Peruvians committed human sacrifice to satiate their gods, but in today's modern dog-eat-dog work-a-day world of scientists, diplomats, McSalad Shakers, and George Bush Jr., we no longer have access to such solutions...
Instead of satiating the gods, many of these "scientists" have tried to control El Nino with "science". They put up expensive fish-attracting-bueys that run on flashlight batteries. Imagine, fighting the power of the gods with flashlight battieries! Needsless to say, this didn't work and everyone died.

Lightning!!!
by Jeremy Lavine

Benjamin Franklin was a founding father. He fatherly founded that lightning is made of electricity...
But what of... the Greek God Zeus... throwing down lightning bolts to kill people and knock down trees. Where did he find the time?
Lightning kills people and knocks down trees!!!
Some people... ignore the wisdom of... the founding father Benjamin Franklin... they ignore such
wisdom and taunt the powerful exercise of destruction and they worship their idle gods and stand near trees. At their own peril!!... There is no escape. Lightning will knock down the tree and knock down your soul.

Biography: Walt Whitman
by Peter Nguyen

Walt Whitman was an awful child molester who was born in ancient Hong Kong. He is over 3,000 years old and remembers the names of all the forgotten Gods.
Walt Whitman is 90 stories tall, and his adventures are legendary. Whith his blue Ox, Emily Dickenson, Walt Whitman traveled across young America and helped the nation grow into the angry powerhouse it is today...
Walt Whitman believed the only good China man was a dead China man, so he went to Tiananmen Square and gave them all candy. Except instead of candy he killed them...
Walt Whitman died a lonely man in Walt Disney Land. He was on the gondola ride, and he fell out becuase he wasn't fastened properly to the restraint. Thanks to his dumb ass, now none of us can ride it anymore. Thanks a lot Walt Whitman.

the revolution of stupidity is now complete

Merriam-Webster's online dictionary now includes nuk-yu-ler as an acceptable pronounciation of the word nuclear:

Main Entry: nu·cle·ar
Pronunciation: 'nü-klE-&r, 'nyü-, ÷-ky&-l&r
Function: adjective
1 : of, relating to, or constituting a nucleus
2 a : of or relating to the atomic nucleus [nuclear reaction] [nuclear physics] b : used in or produced by a nuclear reaction (as fission) [nuclear fuel] [nuclear waste] [nuclear energy] c (1) : being a weapon whose destructive power derives from an uncontrolled nuclear reaction (2) : of, produced by, or involving nuclear weapons [the nuclear age] [nuclear war] (3) : armed with nuclear weapons [nuclear powers] d : of, relating to, or powered by nuclear energy [a nuclear submarine] [the nuclear debate] [a nuclear plant]
usage Though disapproved of by many, pronunciations ending in \-ky&-l&r\ have been found in widespread use among educated speakers including scientists, lawyers, professors, congressmen, U.S. cabinet members, and at least one U.S. president and one vice president. While most common in the U.S., these pronunciations have also been heard from British and Canadian speakers.

59 million Americans can't be wrong...?

This is from a transcript of George W. Bush's recent (February) town hall-style discussion of his plans for social security. This is not made up. These are his exact words. The entire text of this event is on the White House's very own website.

Because the -- all which is on the table begins to address the big cost drivers. For example, how benefits are calculate, for example, is on the table; whether or not benefits rise based upon wage increases or price increases. There's a series of parts of the formula that are being considered. And when you couple that, those different cost drivers, affecting those -- changing those with personal accounts, the idea is to get what has been promised more likely to be -- or closer delivered to what has been promised.
Does that make any sense to you? It's kind of muddled. Look, there's a series of things that cause the -- like, for example, benefits are calculated based upon the increase of wages, as opposed to the increase of prices. Some have suggested that we calculate -- the benefits will rise based upon inflation, as opposed to wage increases. There is a reform that would help solve the red if that were put into effect. In other words, how fast benefits grow, how fast the promised benefits grow, if those -- if that growth is affected, it will help on the red.

This is what America wants, so this is what America gets.

Index of Famous Monkeys

This is a very silly collection of famous monkeys in pop culture, with a brief description of most of them. Some examples:

• Beppo the Super Monkey (Kryptonian monkey stowaway on baby Superman's rocket)
• Bonzo (Chimp star of Ronald Reagan's crowning achievment)
• Dr. Zaius (From Planet of the Apes, Orangutan leader)
• Enos (Chimp shot into space in 1961 aboard the Mercury Atlas 5)
• Sea Monkeys (Tiny wormy things you can watch swim in a fish-bowl. Used to advertise in comic books.)
  

What This is All About

Not a lot, really.

It's just a linkblog - a place for me to store bits of web-based information that I find interesting, amusing, aggravating, or for some other reason worth keeping. There probably won't be a lot of commentary by me, though I should mention a little something about each post and why I chose to include it. I'll be surpised if this gets updated more than a few times a month.

It's modelled after writer Warren Ellis' "newsmine" DiePunyHumans.com (which is now defunct, though he continues to collect information at his main site warrenellis.com). In fact, a lot of the stuff here probably will have come from Warren's blog. It's also a lot like boingboing and draws from there as well.

So there it is.