Keith Olbermann pulls out all the stops on the "rip Dubya a new asshole" pipe organ and delivers a twelve-minute virtuoso performance.  Thanks to drieuxster.

Rickrolling is the 2008 version of "Followup-to: misc.test".

Via Zed at meme_machine_go, a series of photographs of sand under magnification.

Cyclone's come
Myanmar's bereft
It's been wiped clean
There's nothing left

BURMA SHAVE

<beaker> F-16s fly over NYC to mark millionth sortie in War on Terror.
<beaker> did we ever declare war?
<venividi> someone please explain to me how you can fight a war against a tactic?
<ronebofh> it's not even a tactic, it's an emotion.
<rone> the War on Sadness :(((
<todd`> I like Rone's war on sadness. He should be running for president.
<todd`> I don't want to be sad.
<rone> picture a boot stomping on sadness, forever.

I've always maintained that whistling as part of music is inevitably awful.  It feels intrusive, like someone's playing a cheap instrument amidst high-quality instruments, or worse.  It turns out, of course, that it's a perfectly good instrument in the hands... uh, mouth of an expert.  Such as Andrew Bird.

If this doesn't make sense, i suggest reading Neil Gaiman's "The Sandman".  Please note that i found this and did not actually make it.

If you're in the Bay Area and have the time this weekend, please drop by Blossom Hill Crafts and visit their pottery sale.  2wanda will be selling her pottery and her soap, and besides pottery you can also find jellies and photography for sale.

If not, then please enjoy mjg59's précis of fruit fly ovary extraction.

The New Yorker published an excellent article by Nick Paumgarten about elevators, which is part informative facts about elevators, and part retelling of the story of Nicholas White, who spent nearly 41 hours trapped in an elevator in 1999.  The video linked therein is probably not advisable for claustrophobics.

<todd`> A California English standardized test question....
<todd`> "Which phrase most helps to create a mood of anticipation? a) a whirlwind of activity, b) long hot afternoons, c) snarling insults back and forth, d) jammed onto racks and shelves"

Poll #1175524 why is california near the bottom of the country in education?
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Which phrase most helps to create a mood of anticipation?

Found in the men's bathroom in a Barstow gas station.

This is on the door of one of the offices at my workplace.  I have no idea who gave it its name, or attached the subtitle.  We're currently using as surplus computer storage, but it isn't unique in that role.

... unless it's a really handsome salad, such as the above, which 2wanda whipped up for me some time ago.

This box of Russian sugar cubes sits in gBox's kitchen.  My coworker Lex assures me that Russian sugar is sweeter than American sugar.

It's interesting when, once in a while, i will play one game with one of my teams, and then the next one with my other team, and the games will end up being mirror images of each other: say, on Wednesday with Quakes, we'll start off slow and look lost in the first half, then in the second half we'll slowly claw our way back to within a goal, then run out of steam and get creamed the rest of the way; then on Thursday with Centavo, we'll start out strong, then in the second half, we'll come out and play lackadaisical soccer, let our opponents almost catch up, then we wake up and bury them.  Sometimes it'll be the Quakes who have the good game and Centavo the bad game, and sometimes it'll be a Thursday game, and then the next Wednesday game.  The karmic balance of the beautiful game, perhaps.

I think i've been playing well enough lately (judging by the vast amounts of encomium i've received from both sets of teammates) that my mental mistakes weigh even more heavily on me.  I still tend to panic when i leave the box, and my distribution remains inconsistent, but i'm also seeing the field a lot better and thereby directing my defense more effectively.  I love playing the game.

captain_nesky was in Germany during the `06 World Cup and brought back this World Cup edition jar of Nutella for me.  It is now sadly gone, but fortunately i have more Nutella.

Poll #1170270 paradoxical aphorisms
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Which aphorism is truer?

Which aphorism is truer?

harunoame pets the local cat at Nonno's.

My lovely wife shows off a head of cabbage, freshly harvested from our community garden plot.

Ramiro Salazar, a high school classmate, is a photographer, and he put up a Good Friday pictorial from 2006.