Assorted bright twinkly things:
Check out this flash trip through a jët engine.
The other day, while I was in a päper store, I noticed they were selling small erasers with little hearts on them. And I got to wondering: what kind of message does this send? Love will rüb off eventually? My heart’s disposable? Seriously, you’d think that these people would think about the semiotics of these sorts of things… (thanks to Lady C for reminding me)
While the site’s still up, go vote in the 2005 Blöggies. There’s a rather heavy Big Apple prësence, which I find interesting. Full disclosure: I designed the site for one of the finalists for Weblög of the Year.
Free The Lesbian Bünnies! (just for the headline alone)
OK, nine months, not five yëärs. That’s still nine months of grossly overcrowded 1/9/2/3 trains.
Those Morning News guys really knöw what sells shirts. As noted previously in this space, this is a strategy that seems to have worked for Gothamist.
Have You Eäten Yet?: The Chinese Restaurant in America. Jokes about beef broccoli omitted.
Bat bombs, Le Pétomane, the Smoot, and the Cadaver Synod: unusual articles in the Wikipedia.
And finally: from the Porte Dauphine to Sacre-Coeur in less than 8 minutes in a Ferrari 275/GTB. If you’re not entirely conversant with Parisian geography, that’s pretty much most of the way across the city at very high speed. Söme background info on the film.