Had to add something funny and lite for Friday. Sexy mamas!

Don’t have time to go to the MET yourself? Check out their online gallery. Beautiful work.

Well, since everyone liked the female or shemale test so much, here’s another great one…

The Center for Public Integrity has a great article on how much money our contenders for 2004 presidency have at their disposal.

This site is reasonably non-partisan as they take aim first at Democratic Senator of Massachusetts John Kerry. If he were to win, he would be the richest president in over a CENTURY!!

Some may know, while for others it may be news. The government through the USA Patriot Act now has quite broad powers to tap telephone lines without a warrant.

This obviously has broad implications, and is a dangerous trend.

Well many of us have heard that when the astronauts landed on the moon, it was really a big hoax.

Well apparently these women pictured are merely pawns of the establishment view that the moon can affect us (scroll to the bottom).

Dumpster diving is the real-world hacking by sifting through other people’s garbage. A little in the grey area of legal, it tends to draw only the hard-core of the hard-core.

bOINGbOING is running a bit about a new book by John Hoffman.

Unfortunately the answer would seem to be yes. Other sources are reporting the same thing.

Only one power has ever used nukes, and now we’re preparing for that eventuality again. World opinion of the US is poised to fall even further just by considering them as a military option. What’s more it may encourage other smaller nuclear powers to consider them as a strategic tool.

Forget Tianenman Square, and America propaganda, forget CCTV’s face of a nation. Take a look at Steven Harris’s beautiful travel photography. This could be the wild wild west, and these people could be your neighbors.

This looks like a goodie, networking, and frolicking with the nyc blogger kiddies.

Here’s an great resource on subvertising, or the art/act of subversion through advertising/artwork.

Here’s an interesting article from Mother Jones about this.

Wow, I’ll bet these key manufacturers are scrambling. It seems Matt Blaze, researcher with AT&T figured out how to make master keys from any normal key.

Gary Morris interviews Annie Sprinkle the feminist, former porn industry work, and sex-positive activist.

Dubbed the Eco Halo, the project of Dante Leonelli is at once spectacular civic art, and at the same time an environmental indicator.

Looks like law enforcement are tripping over these cellphone guns. Certainly a disturbing trend, and a sort of illustration of how subtle variations on our common conceptions can be very gaping holes in our security.

I wish I could spend a decade in asia just taking pictures. Gorgeous shots from colorful buildings to beautiful women, and enchanted islands.

I wondered for a long time how this all works, and now I know.

Don’t ever read an email from a Japanese friend without this reference close at hand. Everything from blushing smileys, to shuri-ken wielding Ninja’s, and sumo referee’s.

I think the best is the Japanese ghost with no legs. Do ghosts *EVER* have legs??

Hey all… now that this site has been running for a few weeks, I wanna request comments for a new name.
Maybe you like the name as it is, let me know shull@pobox.com, or try the survey to the right.

Some other ideas… monomondo.com, monomuse.com, artmono.com…

It’s being reported all over that the project has been derailed, at least for now.

A great art resource, Assembly Language Tokyo avant garde culture and Japanese Art, they feature some really excellent artists.

Take a look at Yukinori Tokoro’s Angel or this very gotham shot of the Nishi-Shinjuku Skyline by Torin Boyd, or Yori Ojima beautiful body shots.

Or at least, that’s what a few censors masquarading as “do-gooders” want you to think.

This prompted a Japanese artist to create this piece.

The Japanese definitely have a fascination with gadgets. Take for example these bathroom pages. But there are even weirder inventions to behold. The Japanese word Chindogu seems to imply many things, and defy definition. Weird inventions are definitely included.

I’m always looking for new sounds. Just found Digital Cutup Lounge on bOINGbOING and I’m hooked. Internet radio broadcasts, jazz solo, ambiant, and dance? They mix it all.

If Gawker says so, then I’m going to head on over to Milk + Honey. I’m all about secret-spy clubs.

If you’re looking for a new cellphone, check out PhoneScoop for advice, feature comparisons, and fairly no-nonsense information.

Just started reading The Curse of Westoxification in The Economist (paid content). A very interesting read.

Check out these cool posters from Japan. They’re similar to our “Uncle Sam wants you” type posters. Thanks bOINGbOING… I’m already in love with Geisha Asobi. Also, check out /usr/bin/girl.

The Shaolin Kung Fu HQ in Queens is having a demonstration and party this Sunday morning January 26, 11am - 3pm.

On the anniversery of Roe v. Wade, it makes sense to raise a little conspiracy into the debate. Apparently a number of states sell licence plates which say “Choose Life” and use the proceeds to fund and disseminate anti-choice info.

Here’s a new twist. Try a blind date in total darkness. The brainchild idea of Yann de Rochefort, owner of Suba restaurant on the Lower East Side…