Dinner with a Stranger

S&P calculation

Brilliant!

The guy who walked into a bank and tried to cash a $360 billion dollar check was also carrying "a small amount of marijuana and a pistol".

Quoted: Reading, watching, discussing and blogging the day's local, national, and international news at The New York Times on the Web.

Stuff White People Like:

#71 Being the only white person around
#67 Standing Still at Concerts
#64 Recycling
#63 Expensive Sandwiches
#62 Knowing what’s best for poor people

Our Top 40 Photoshopped Images

Quoted: In the second round of the competition we made things a little harder, but the standard of the 400 entries was if anything higher than in the first round. After a closely fought contest, find out which entry came out on top here!

My reptile brain made me buy that suv.

If you haven't installed Google Earth yet, now is the time to do so. Then check out this seriously cool Google Earth-based blog.

Welcome to the Jane Goodall Institute's Gombe Chimpanzee Blog! Here you will find all things related to the Gombe Stream Research Center in Tanzania, site of the longest-running field study of wild chimpanzees. Gombe scientists tell us about their work, daily chimp dramas, the beauty of the landscape and the struggles they experience and observe. Jane drops in now and then, too. So stop by often, but you'll need Google Earth.

Quoted: Now that nofollow is everywhere, it's time to take a good hard look at it. Google's nofollow initiative has not resulted in a reduction of link spam, but instead has had much more insidious effects on the Internet.