What I'm Linking To, Why I'm Linking To It, and Why You Should Care.

Michael Malice is a friend, he's the smartest person I know, and I enjoy following the thrilling escapades of his aquatic creatures and their ever-varied attempts to escape his evil clutches via suicide, be it by forcibly ejecting their own colons or by physically throwing themselves out of the fish tank while he sleeps.

JC Steinbrunner is another friend, a talented artist currently beautifying the mean, artless streets of Chicago, and a fine fellow who does nice things like delivering educational aid to Chilean children when he's not drunkenly exposing himself in public.

My big brother Bill is currently rocking Columbus, Ohio. If you're in the area, check him out, and if you're not, go ahead and download some of his music. Unlike the major record labels, he won't take you to the Supreme Court.

I recently got turned on to Edward Tufte, and the inner geek in me finds his work on information design fascinating. Check out his poster of Charles Joseph Minard's Napoleon map, and see if you get what I'm talking about. I asked for it for Christmas. My inner geek is rapidly becoming an outer geek.

NYC Bloggers recently put me on the map (take the F-train to the Carroll Street stop), and I find the geographical positioning of inherently positionless weblogs kind of nifty. Inner geek, outer geek, etc.

Speaking of NYC Bloggers, I found Girls Are Pretty through their site, and I laughed, and I put it here, so you can laugh, too, and then we can all laugh together, and all will be right with the world.