Fuck yeah! I've had a shitty fuckin' week so this cheered me up immensely. Happy Friday!

Advice needed on managing a large website I've been asked to set up a website management plan where the updaters are not web-savvy. Do you have some tips on locking things down and eliminating frustration for the users? more inside

The Bilderberg Group are meeting this week in Ottawa, Canada. Who are they?. What do they do? Conspiracy theories abound. Previous discussion.

Bum Wines. "If your taste buds are shot, and you need to get trashed with a quickness, then "T-bird" is the drink for you. Or, if you like to smell your hand after pumping gas, look no further than Thunderbird. As you drink on, the bird soars higher while you sink lower."

The amazing (but true!) journey of a can of S & W® brand black beans as they make their way across this great land of ours, and to other nations! more inside

Bukowski Yeah, yeah. more inside

Kill the gatso. Or kill the gatso. more inside

Goatonapole is the philosophy of being that holds that there is a Goat and a Pole and that the Goat is on the Pole. Whether we accept, reject, or live in ignorance of Goatonapole, we are all Goatonapolists. Adherents of Goatonapole often shout the mantra "The goat's on a pole!" to remind others of this central and single tenet of Goatonapole, that they might come to a deeper understanding.

Come Away, Oh Mortal Child: The SurLaLune Fairy Tale Site offers a wealth of resources for the volk-inclined. Illustrations beautiful and strange, thouroughly annotated versions of old favorites, and complete texts of works you are perhaps not so familiar with. more inside

Ok, everyone can be Curious George except MonkeyBashi. I sent this email out in May to people who are identified in the 4th paragraph: (Damn, this is going to be really long, so please have patience.) more inside