Singer Lou Rawls has died of cancer.

End of an era: The 2nd Avenue Deli, has closed, perhaps for good. The deli was the home of the Instant Heart Attack sandwich: a huge mass of pastrami sandwiched by two potato latkes.

Casualties on the show Star Trek Voyager included names that might sound familiar to West Wing viewers (scroll down):

Commander J. Bartlett, Ensign Claudia J. Craig, Lieutenant J. Lyman, Lieutenant Commander L. McGarry, Lieutenant S. Seaborn, Ensign Charles Young, Lieutenant Commander T. Ziegler.

Four Word Film Reviews

Microsoft: A parent’s primer to computer slang, Netiquette 101 and an MMO primer.

Never tell me the odds! New Scientist: Take a leap into hyperspace.

From theferret: a comprehensive list of webcomics

Windows Vista Wallpaper

Something for gbam here. Credit it to fraqbert :)

The mogo mouse


Political Stuff
Why does Jack Abramoff wear a hat?

blinkytreefrog expands on her Left Behind post from a few days ago. Excellent essay.

Warning, this one’s likely to upset anyone who clicks it: copperwise linked to this pdf of a flyer being put out by Westboro Baptist Church, Fred “godhatesfags” Phelps’ people. They’re planning to picket the funerals of the 12 miners who died in West Virginia. I hope the families rip them to shreds.

Ariel Sharon Bios: Wikipedia, Encyclopedia.com, factmonster, reference.com, Encarta, War Crimes accusations from globalpolicy.org, the BBC and the Encyclopedia of the Orient.