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I, too, hear Robin Williams spits on all his fans. (via @rainnwilson)

Ebert pwns O'Reilly.

I have a terrible hankering for lox now. Or when you read this. Pretty much whenever, really. (via World Hum)

Mmm. . . thin mints. (via Kottke)

Now we need Ctrl + Cmd + Power pillows for the Mac set.

Why no one else thought of making a delete button-themed eraser is beyond me.

A desperate plea to get westerners to not dress down when abroad if they want to be respected. Then a hundred comments on why publishing the article is a sign of patriarchal oppression, thus proving the need for this article to be written.

From 1966: Helvetica, of course!

I only wish I could say I've never needed one of these cards. (via swissmiss)

The Sudanese President who explicitly enables the rape, tourture, and murder of civilians is on the loose. But a Spanish judge is worried about jailing those evil Yanquis! When heads are buried in a pile of CHIMPY MCBU$HITLER!!! manure, it's not terribly surprising that human rights are an international joke.

Leave it to Marxists to help out their fellow criminals. They have a point, though: convicted felons run for office all the time.

The Indian Supreme Court prevents a consumer from forcing Air India to release its "Manual for Passenger Service", thus saving the government-owned flagship airline from having to reveal that page one says "f*ck 'em", and the remaining pages are blank.

Google Australia gets into the April 1st "announcement" racket.

Google's annual April 1st "announcement."

All good, including "Daguerreotypes Will One Day Be in Color; Will Feature Cats in Humorous Poses With Misspelled Captions".

IBN has the best info design in Indian news today, hands down. Of course, as Gautam notes, it's not saying much. (via Gautam)

These rabbits are displeased with your performance. And there are a lot of them.

Chorizo and leg of lamb were robbed.

Obama's approval ratings are now below Bush the Younger's at this time, he's lost his crossover support, and a plurality now oppose his budget. That's an incredible amount of political capital to squander in fifty days.

Pro-cap-and-trade economists Dallas Burtraw and Richard Sweeney write a 2008 paper pointing out the disparate effects of cap-and-trade pollution regulation on the poor and on economically depressed regions of the country, but press ahead anyway. The WSJ catches them on it. Burtraw and Sweeney's response? "The Wall Street Journal is an idiot." Great, questionable grammar _and_ rhetoric. Good job, global warmists.

While English speakers say "It's Greek to me!", most of the world points to Chinese as the default incomprehensible language. (via Kottke)

(via Daring Fireball)

Analog weather forecasts with awesome cutout illustrations. (via swissmiss)

Beautiful libraries from the days when libraries were palaces (and a few of a later date).

(via every single design blog ever.)