h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

Who would have thought the old man to have so many bananas in him?

Oo-er, missus!

The RSPCA have expressed their concerns about The Marmosets of Venice

Four from Mrs swl

This above all: to thine own chimp be true.

The langur doth protest too much, methinks.

Capuchins, Marmosets, Tamarins, lend me your ears.

Good gibbon, gibbon! Pygmy is such sweet sorrow.

Nothing personal, Ed:

Monkey See, Monkey Do - Michael Franks
http://grooveshark.com/#/s/Monkey+See+Monkey+Do/JaZpM?src=5

Nice tune Rudy.
Very mellow.
And fun.
And it had the decency not to mention throwing feces,
just bananas, at each other.

~jwf~

I guess we're both suckers for sexy sax solos - in this case, Sanborn's sexy sax solos.

Ha - we have our sub-infinite number of monkeys

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-15060310

"A few million virtual monkeys are close to re-creating the complete works of Shakespeare by randomly mashing keys on virtual typewriters.

A running total of how well they are doing shows that the re-creation is 99.990% complete.

The first single work to be completed was the poem A Lover's Complaint."

Is it just me, or is that a complete waste of computing power, when there are genomes to be cracked, stars to be counted, cancers to be cured and an infinite number of other things to deal with?

Well, it's only running on a home PC.

"The project has been moved to a home PC to speed up text string generation and to cut the cost."

Yeah, right. That would really speed things up.

Anything that doesn't match a poem gets uploaded to Wikipedia

Actually, I find that very interesting!

Dang it, Bea, I was hoping that you could persuade people to get these hundreds of chimps out of my cellar. Have you any idea of the electric needed, or the daily shovellings?

Ah but Icy, if you read further down the report it says:

"Also in 2003, Paignton Zoo carried out a practical test by putting a keyboard connected to a PC into the cage of six H2G2 Researchers. After a month the Researchers had produced six thousand pages arguing about gods, 3 thousand pages arguing about moderation issues, five hundred pages about bondage ponies & nighthoover, five pages of the letter "S" and had broken the keyboard."

Doesn't Skankyrich work there? It must be true.

Monkeys have other uses -

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/in_depth/7654267.stm

Wonder what union they're in?

Bonobo, bonobo, wherefore art though thou bonobo