Monad is also a really beautiful philosophical concept from Leibniz. It's a concept about love, desire, and unique, affirmative, irreducible difference. Deleuze called it a "singularity." In the simplest of terms, every "body" (corporeal or incorporeal) is composed of everything it has ever encountered (in an external sense), as that body has uniquely internalized or "folded" that external experience. No two bodies have had the exact same exposures, encounters, and relations (with other bodies and the world/universe), and no two bodies have selectively folded them (internalized them) in the exact same way, therefore no two bodies are or can be exactly the same. All bodies are unique and different. Singularity or a Monad is about the affirmation of this difference (for Leibnz it's kind of like a world or universe of itself that is composed of what is outside of itself... very super cool because it's not at all about a "subject," even though it is about a non-representational or "subjectless" subjectivity).
Sorry, I can't help it ... LOL ... that's why Monads is a cool name.
Davey, I am with you on the "official" vs. unofficial moped gang stuff.