Know your sign language [via Dean Allen]

Yahoo stock plunges?

Kottke runs the numbers on the real winners and losers in the Microhoo story. Loser #1: tech journalism (but when has that ever been a winner?)

MS Paint turns porn into art (quite probably not safe for work)

Dating the women of indie rock

Neko Case and Feist? A bit obvious, sure, but I basically have to link to this. Ladies, don’t miss the men of indie rock.

Sorry I Missed Your Party has great promise. If they could get a MIDI version of that Ween song going, so much the better.

I will probably never tire of photos of stupid Americans who prove that some form of intelligence test, especially for the so-called natives, is exactly what this country needs

Have you ever met a 75-year-old black man in this country that wasn’t angry? I mean, they have a few reasons.

—Chris Rock on Reverend Wright

Merlin would be the funny one, Scott would be the smart one and I would be the not funny one. Or Scott would be the witty one, Merlin the famous one and I would be the straight man - that is to say, I’d just sort of keep quiet except when I’m laughing. Or maybe Merlin would be the clown, Scott the thinker and me the one with glasses. Sometimes, we switch it up and Merlin plays Figurehead, Scott Team Captain and me Dead Weight. Regardless, it was decided I should be the one with little or no self-esteem, and I’m okay with that.

—Adam “lonelysandwich” Lisagor on the characters of you look nice today

Ars has a really great breakdown of the White House email system

And, more interestingly, how the Bush administration failed at basic accounting of that email system as required by the Federal Records Act

The premise, as I understand it, is that those who reject modern biology struggle professionally in the sciences.

—Steve Benen on Ben Stein’s absurd Expelled movie