Want to freak out a monkey? Create images or video of nearly-but-not-quite realistic monkeys, and they will freak right out. As Science Daily reports, monkeys too have an “uncanny valley”. I also like how the article seems to indicate that scientists (or monkeys?) dislike (and fear?) the movie The Polar Express.

You’ve got to love Texas. Where else can a man go outside to clear some brush, and find a discarded anti-tank guided missile launcher.

Cracked gives the Internet some lessons on English vocabulary.

Today, Iran’s PressTV reports that terrorists have successfully hacked President Obama’s Blackberry. The report appears to be based on the publication of the book Obama’s Blackberry by the comedy group Kasper Hauser.

Excerpts of the book can be found on the Fox News website. Dangerous stuff, indeed.

(Photo by Slinkachu)

A woman in California allegedly bought Cap’n Crunch’s Crunchberries for years, under the delusion that they were a healthy cereal that contained real fruit. On discovering that “Crunchberries” are not an actual fruit, she sued. The verdict is now in, and is a victory for everybody who thinks that we ought to be able to assume that people are smart enough to identify Crunchberries as balls of coloured sugar.

Is a traditional bayonet not good enough? Add a chainsaw. Want a crossbow on your machine gun? Go ahead. Cracked takes us through some over-the-top modifications of deadly weapons.

We close this week of morning coffees with some XKCD:

It’s amazing to wander around this Internet place. It’s full of lists: 7 Twitter Tricks for Tortoises, and that sort of thing. OK — there’s nothing about Twitter for Tortoises. Yet. But it is full of lists.

Many of the better lists can be found at Cracked.com, including a list of big stolen things, which played a part in inspiring this post.

But it is (unfortunately) not alone — for instance Wired magazine likes its sexy geeks, although it doesn’t have much in the way of minimal standards for geekery. And every which way you look, people are giving a “top 10″, or 20 or 12 or 5 or 7 or 40 or whatever number they end up getting to. These are most usually presented in a manner that is void of insight, humour or eloquence.

So I ask: Dear Internet, what’s with all the lists? I don’t want to read them anymore.