No netty, no bloggy. We are still waiting for telephone and Internet hookup at the new house. The Cox man is supposed to come today. Usually, the longest part of the installation process is our refusal to buy cable television.

HIM: Which televisions should I hook up?

US: No TVs, just the phone and modem.

HIM: Huh? You can bundle cable for only $52 more a month. Are you sure you…?

US: Yes, just the phone and modem.

HIM: You don’t want any television?

US: No thanks, just the phone and modem.

HIM: What do you people watch, anyway?

We’ll blog again later. Wish us luck.

You can “expect to see lots of brown,” says Linda Miller, fashion editor of the Oklahoman, in her “Swimwear Tips” slide show. Brown is “the number one color, and it looks wonderful when trimmed in hot pink, turquoise, even orange. If you always buy black, try brown. It has the same slimming effects.” Linda’s narration includes other handy pieces of swimwear advice, and the photos are instructive.

The stalwart Six Meat Buffet blog is back up and running. It went down today, and Preston was having the devil’s own time trying to fix it. We speculate that it was a malicious cyberattack by Russian mobsters, to punish him for trying to save Sovtek. (And no, he never did find any DreamHost phone number.)

16 jailed for conspiracy to defraud

HONG KONG, May 20 (Xinhua) — Sixteen persons were put in jail on Saturday following a two-year extensive investigation on the case which involved twenty-one victims with 9.14 million HK dollars (1.18 U.S. dollars) deceived.

It sure seems like these 16 miscreants went to a lot of trouble to steal a dollar and eighteen cents.

But Basil does! The Sean Gleeson interview is up at Basil’s Blog.

A team of British scientists studying primates in Nigeria have made some astounding claims. First of all, they claim to be British scientists, even though one of them admits to being named “Klaus Zuberbühler.” They also claim that monkeys may speak to each other in sentences.

The researchers have identified the sentence Pyow, pyow, pyow, hack, hack, as meaning “Let’s get out of here” to the putty-nosed monkeys living in Gashaka Gumti National Park.

“The findings suggest that the rudiments of syntax, a basic component of human language, may be more widespread among primates than is generally thought,” says the Times’s Mark Henderson. “Then again, it may not be,” he did not add, since that would have been redundant.

The new study builds upon work by Arthur Fields and Walter Donovon, who recorded in 1914 that Baba, daba, dab, in monkey talk, means “Chimp, I love you, too.”

For phase two of the study, each of the subjects will be given a blog on the Huffington Post.