Leave it to Squirrel Monkey (previously) to imagine what Siri might have been like in the eighties. In this spoof called Wonders of the World Wide Web, they give the ancient alter ego of Apple's voice-controlled personal assistant a garbled, synthesized voice which I found particularly funny. — Read the rest

A Squirrel Monkey peers into a photographer's lens at London Zoo, August 21, 2014.

[Video Link] Squirrel Monkey makes very funny and almost believable "what if?" videos that imagine what popular websites might have looked like if they were launched 20 or 25 years ago.

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"NASA to Start Radiating Monkeys," noted Chris Baker (of Wired), "The kind of headline that should be followed by 'NASA to Fire PR Firm.'"

The experiments will bombard squirrel monkeys (like the lil guy above) with radioactivity to explore the possible effects of radiation in space on human astronauts. — Read the rest

National Geographic celebrates the first monkeys in space with a photo-feature of the poor little primates in their capsules:

A squirrel monkey named Baker peers out from a 1950s NASA biocapsule as she's readied for her first space mission. Baker and a rhesus monkey named Able launched aboard a Jupiter AM-18 rocket on May 28, 1959 — 50 years ago this week.

Comic Book Resources has a fantastic first-hand account of ordering a live miniature monkey from a comic book advertisment.

Jeff Tuthill ordered one for about $25 in the early 1970s. Not wanting his parents to know, he had it shipped to his friend's house:

It came in this little cardboard box.