Don't Ask Me Why Dept.:

"I LIKE MONKEYS." Apropos of nothing whatsover, except that it's weird and funny.

Scary Monsters Dept.:

Some people just want to keep everything.

"The Internet Archive is for web developers what home movies must be for celebrities. Preserved for posterity are our bad web designs, animated gifs and blinking text."

From "Inside The Internet Archive," a November 2002 article at Mindjack, by Doug Roberts.

I honestly didn't know such a thing even existed until now. It's like the biggest junk drawer in the world.

"Intellectualizing and comedy both create an atmosphere where action becomes an option. This is in between those two extremes -- it is at once really funny and really not funny."

So says Damali Ayo, talking about her website rent-a-negro and her book How to Rent Negro in "How To Sell a Stereotype" at AlterNet.

"What's the 411 on 9/11?" by Salim Muakkil at In These Times.

Pope Pithecanthropus erectus III? Saint Archaeopterix? Praise Darwin!

"Usually, even a non-Christian knows something about the earth, the heavens, and the other elements of this world, about the motion and orbit of the stars and even their size and relative positions, . . . and this knowledge he holds to as being certain from reason and experience. Now, it is a disgraceful and dangerous thing for an infidel to hear a Christian, presumably giving the meaning of Holy Scripture, talking non-sense on these topics; and we should take all means to prevent such an embarrassing situation, in which people show up vast ignorance in a Christian and laugh it to scorn." Thus wrote Saint Augustine, and quite intelligently and sensibly.

The above is quoted in "CA040: Equal time.," one of many reality-checking articles archived at The Talk.Origins Archive's "Index of Creationist Claims," edited by Mark Isaak.

Hmm. The notion of giving evolutionary theory "equal time" in church is rather tempting . . . .