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Fun with monkeys: Monkey Shakespeare Simulator. My best results so far are only 17 letters each, but I've only had monkeys typing for me for about five years. (Link via languagelog.)

Oh, unwilly will love this: Cancellation due to irony. "'Sixty Minutes' has indefinitely postponed a segment that was designed to cast doubt on the administration's decision to go to war in Iraq. CBS is now saying that the report would not run before the November 2 presidential election. The reason for dumping the story, though, is not a new standard of journalistic responsibility, but embarrassment from an excruciating irony: The report attacks the Bush administration for not recognizing that some of the information about Iraq's nuclear weapons program was based on forged documents." (Link to the World Magazine Blog simply because I can't get any BugMeNot login to work at the NYTimes today and my own account lapsed a while ago.)

Reward offered to solve riddle of ancient cliff tombs. "Management of a famous Taoist mountain in east China's Jiangxi Province has offered to pay 400,000 yuan (US$48,000) to anyone who can give a convincing explanation of how tombs were built on its steep cliffs more than 2,600 years ago." Surely one of you creative people can think of a good explanation, or at least an entertaining story. (From archaeonews.)

Same feed as above: Bronze Age funeral experiment staged in Scotland.( Feed me more! )