wooooohhhhhhhhhooooooooooooooo

(We're still waiting for MP's info)

We both passed.

How Mat Honan feels about The Da Vinci Code

I was going to read it, but Mat's scathing review of the book kind of convinced me I shouldn't bother:

"I'm not even going to link to this piece of shit.

I hated this book. It left me with a deep sense of resentment and a feeling of overwhelming derision for those who put this turd-paper on the best-seller list..."

damn cell phones

Did this professor act appropriately?

cool

Montgomery now has craigslist!

so that's how it works..

i haven't completely grown up

25 Signs That, Sadly, You've Grown Up.

lenticular

Such beautiful, strange clouds.

Good morning!

f 002, originally uploaded by mcdowell.

design

I want some of these customizable bookshelves.

you go, Woody

it was only a matter of time

A federal judge in New York today gave class-action status to a lawsuit that poses a major new threat to the tobacco industry by asserting that tobacco companies purposely misled consumers by marketing “light” cigarettes as a safer alternative to regular cigarettes.

drink wet, vote dry

Wow--Alabama still has a lot of dry counties.

jpg

Amazing photo of Death Valley taken from space.

good lord

Although I can testify that the roads in Costa Rica are pretty bad (bone-jarring, in fact) they don't even hold a candle to this federal highway outside Moscow.

hahaha

the world's stupidest knife.

What were they thinking?

cool idea

Batteries that recharge through USB:

hahaha

Mister Rogers' Neighborhood Gerrymandered To Serve King Friday's Make-Believe Agenda

MISTER ROGERS' NEIGHBORHOOD, PA—A plan to radically redistrict Mr. Rogers' Neighborhood to further cement the control of the powerful King Friday XIII political machine is expected to pass this week and deeply affect current taxation structure, voting patterns, and services. 'Meow-me-meow can't afford meow property tax as it stands now meow, and meow don't want everything I've worked for to be destroyed meow,' said one resident, who asked to remain anonymous. Among the anticipated changes are sharp cutbacks in speedy deliveries, the elimination of trolley routes to such low-income districts as Someplace Else and the platypus mound, as well as the destruction of the Museum-Go-Round to make room for a massive new headquarters for The Electric Company.

haha

Great collection of old and new Office Slang here.

Ohnosecond - That minuscule fraction of time during which you realize you’ve just made a terrible error.

Open-Collar Workers - People who work at home or telecommute.

Percussive Maintenance - The fine art of whacking the crap out of an electronic device to get it to work again.

Perot - To quit unexpectedly. “My cellular phone just perot’ed.”

Plug-and-Play - A new hire who doesn’t require training. “That new guy is totally plug-and-play.”

do not surf here

Interesting photos of a cold beach in Russia where the waves are freezing as they hit the shore.

how true

"Here are the NASCAR-style uniforms Senators Hillary Clinton and Rick Santorum would wear if companies were proud of their political donations."

poem of the day

Another Reason Why I Don't Keep A Gun In The House

The neighbors' dog will not stop barking.
He is barking the same high, rhythmic bark
that he barks every time they leave the house.
They must switch him on on their way out.

The neighbors' dog will not stop barking.
I close all the windows in the house
and put on a Beethoven symphony full blast
but I can still hear him muffled under the music,
barking, barking, barking,

and now I can see him sitting in the orchestra,
his head raised confidently as if Beethoven
had included a part for barking dog.

When the record finally ends he is still barking,
sitting there in the oboe section barking,
his eyes fixed on the conductor who is
entreating him with his baton

while the other musicians listen in respectful
silence to the famous barking dog solo,
that endless coda that first established
Beethoven as an innovative genius.

Billy Collins

spectra

This Flickr Color Selectr is rather cool.

Unorthodox Taxidermy

Someone shot and stuffed a Two Horned Drouberhannis.

hear ye, hear ye

Folks, my new cell phone number is (334) 322-0275.

sacred visions

The New York Metropolitan Museum of Art is currently hosting an exhibit of early paintings from Central Tibet, all of which are stunning.

nice

Joseph Pujol, the 'fartiste.'

This is perhaps the strangest article I have ever read.

my new favorite reading material

the best of craigslist.

we did it

Ladies and Gentlemen, we now introduce to you... Mr. and Mrs. Charles McDowell Crook, Jr. Otherwise known as McD and MP. We love all of you, and hope you enjoyed our wedding weekend as much as we did. If you couldn't make it up to South Bend, we missed you and look forward to seeing you soon in your hometown.

By the way, for those of you who were there, I deny everything that was said about me at the rehearsal dinner.

Meanwhile, we are in Costa Rica having an absolute BLAST. Pura Vida!

cool--Erin has pictures here!

And Katy has more pictures here!

And Richard has posted his bachelor party video here.

You can also watch Jim's toast here.