From ex-homeowner Curt Krone:
Park your bitchin' Camaro at one of the Great Mobile Homes of Mississippi.

From fellow monkey Michele Liguori:
More on the monkey attacks in Japan.

Monkey virus in polio vaccine wasn't dangerous.

Happy Chinese New Year!

Strangely enough, Scotland Online has the nicest page I could find about the Year of the Tiger.

In case you haven't guessed, I'm a monkey.

Cool: Lego MindStorms

Beware of the Monkeys

Mousse Totem?
Schaumgummi Totem?

Don Box has had too much COM.

Bali and Beyond is a pretty neat site about Indonesian art and performance. Listen to the Gamelan and make your own shadow puppet!

Slice and Dice! A nifty java app to cut through our favorite expired death row inmate.

Everyone has probably heard already, but Netscape is planning to free the source code to Communicator 5.0 under a GPL-like (also known as copyleft) license.

Chris Crawford can help you create a world.

From the inimitable Marcel Parnas:
A fairly comprehensive site about Christopher Alexander.

Everything Melville

Literary scrimshaw?

Albany is just soaking in literary heritage.

Moby Dick Rocks!

Larry Wall: "[...] I'm a firm believer that a language -- whether it's a natural language or a computer language -- ought to be an amoral artistic medium."

Think about it: Jesse Helms may live 40% longer!

First Snow Crash, and now Diamond Age. The future is happening.

Richard Hamming, who invented Hamming code (an error-correction scheme used in everything) dies. Imagine if he patented it.

The History of Mathematics Archive has over a thousand biographies of famous mathemeticians. It also has a cool section on famous curves.

Bond: You know what they call a ... a ... a martini shaken not stirred in Paris?

From alert Foamster, and resident urban legend (UL) debunker, Michele Liguori:
More Disney ULs, including Walt's supposed cryonic freezing at his death.

The UL entry for "White Wilderness."

"In film and video, the ethical line between reality and artifice was blurred long ago. [...] Disney's 1958 White Wilderness taught a generation of schoolchildren--and many adults--that lemmings commit mass suicide. They don't. The filmmakers purchased about 1,000 of the small rodents collected by Eskimo children and, in a scene that has become a wildlife classic, drove the hapless critters over a cliff to their deaths."