Arctic Cute Overload

Incredible series of photos of a polar bear playing with huskies.

Pitchfork Gives Music 6.8

“‘Music used to be great, but let’s be honest, it’s a 6.8 now at best,’ said Los Angeles resident Lowell Radler, 23, who admitted that he just looked at the rating rather than reading the whole review. ‘I seriously might never listen to music again.’”

Joel Spolsky, writing from Seattle…

“A bunch of Microsoftees had to cancel because they are having their annual company meeting today in a gigantic football stadium. The size of that company is insane. Can you imagine Safeco Field filled to the brim with software developers? And that’s just the Vista Shutdown Menu Team.”

Pagans have a cow over Homer

Maybe instead of rain, they could conjure up a sense of humor.

Rise and fall of a comic genius

I arrived late to The Simpsons—finally catching up thanks to afternoon reruns and, later, the DVD box sets—but I haven’t seen an entire new episode in years. They’re so un-funny it’s painful to watch.

Man flies 193 miles in lawn chair

Last weekend, Kent Couch settled down in his lawn chair with some snacks — and a parachute. Attached to his lawn chair were 105 large helium balloons.

Q & A with Conan O’Brien

When I quit Saturday Night Live, I went out and bought a ’92 Ford Taurus—the S.H.O., by the way; I don’t want you to get the wrong idea, it’s a stick-shift model, the ladies go crazy for it.

Plastic Duck Armada

For the past 15 years Curtis Ebbesmeyer has been tracking nearly 30,000 plastic bath toys that were released into the Pacific Ocean when a container was washed off a cargo ship.