Just looking through the referrer logs, and I found the coolest thing ever. If you do a Google search on “Ninja swords” for pages within the UK, I’m the sixth result! Sweet.

One of the SMC chicks who participated in the illegal reading of “The Vagina Monologues” wrote a letter to Salon.com defending the play to Camille Paglia. Very cool.

Congratulations to my sister, who won the “Best Poetry Award” from her college’s literary magazine! You can read the three winning pieces at her website. Way to go, sis.

How incredibly weird. A reporter for the New York Observer managed to infiltrate the secret initiation rite of the “Skull and Bones” society at Yale University. This is the same society that both President Bush and his father belonged to, as well as “founders of Time Inc. and the C.I.A.” and “several Secretaries of State and National Security Advisors.” Slate calls the exposé a “great day in the annals of American journalism“. Wasn’t it also a movie starring Pacey?

Let’s see, on Monday Metafilter wondered if George Bush’s new strategy is to “court the Catholics.” I’d say the signs are good… On Wednesday Notre Dame announced that Bush is going to be this year’s commencement speaker. Ugh.

Steve points to an interesting page full of the real facts about the famous McDonald’s spilled coffee case. I always thought it was a frivolous lawsuit, but hearing that a 79-year-old woman had to have skin grafts on 6% of her body changes things a bit.

Oh good Lord. As an experiment, two journalists from the Guardian walked around London asking American tourists about foot-and-mouth disease. Unfortunately we Yanks pretty much lived up to all the stereotypes. These people were idiots (“Is that the one where you have to burn your shoes?”), with the notable exception of one 13-year-old kid.

Max points to a review of the new American version of “The Weakest Link”. I agree with everything Tom Shales says. In fact, I said most of it two months ago on this Plastic post and this Plastic post. Was that not brilliant of me? *grin*

I just found something else cool on Quadra – a site where you input your location and it tells you where you’d come out if you dug a hole straight through the Earth. From London, I wind up in the Pacific just off the coast of New Zealand.

Did I mention we’re thinking of getting a cat? Because we are. I just came across what must be the biggest innovation in feline-human interaction ever: a computerised cat door that will only let the kitty in if she’s not holding something in her mouth. How cool is that? (Link courtesy of Matt, who got it from Quadra.)