It Pours: I've got to hurry this cuz there are monster thunderstorms in the distance, and since the power grid around here is put together with twist ties, I expect to lose power any minute.

Sometimes you can't find a single interesting link out on the web and sometime they pour out like salt from a blue Morton's salt canister with a little girl in a raincoat on it. Is that too obscure?

• A deeply freaky special effect. Or perhaps an artistic statement about futility, infinity and how poorly groomed people cannot be stopped.


• I have seen the future of bad science fiction, and it is nanobacteria.


• Superstition is one thing. But this truly gross. Never shake hands with a baseball player.


• How not to look on prom night.


• All these years I've been eating sushi wrong. Who knew?


• One of my favorite authors, Nick Hornby, on the current state of Rock and Roll.