This is cool.

In a freaky kind of way.

Johnny Cash apparently did a cover of the Eagles' "Desperado".

Well, someone's done a flash-style video. Featuring monkeys. In a low-key kind of way.

(Or as low-key as monkeys ever get.)

Not as catchy as "Badger Badger", but full of heart.

Oscar stuph.

The ever-catty Gawker links to a New York Observer article about the Oscar race. The question is, why did she cut the last sentence from the paragraph she quotes?

"The conventional wisdom out here is that despite the all-out effort from Miramax to promote Cold Mountain, the Best Picture award this year will go to the final installment of The Lord of the Rings. But on the other hand, I wouldn’t put it past the beautiful minds in Hollywood to start an old-fashioned smear campaign—something to the effect that the film producers glossed over the fact that Aragorn was, in actuality, a homophobic bipolar anti-Semite. Not that anybody at Miramax would ever stoop to such a thing, of course. So let’s just paraphrase Howard Dean here: "I didn’t say I believe it. It’s just what I heard.""

Dean gets it.

From the AP wire via Yahoo:

Democratic presidential hopeful Howard Dean on Friday cited the higher terror alert and the number of U.S. troops killed in Iraq in arguing that he was right to say Saddam Hussein's capture didn't make America safer.

"They got all excited, but here we are," Dean told a town-hall meeting. "We've lost 10 more troops and F-16s are escorting foreign passenger jets into our air space because we're now more worried than we were before."

Last month, Dean's rivals assailed the front-runner when he said within a day of the Iraqi leader's capture that his apprehension had not made the United States safer, a direct contradiction of President Bush.

Since then, the national terrorism alert has been raised to orange and U.S. troops have been killed in Iraq.

"I can assure you it's not Saddam who's threatening to bomb airplanes," Dean said. "It's al-Qaida. We've not paid attention to al-Qaida. We've spent $160 billion, lost over 400 servicemen, and wounded and permanently maimed over 2,000 people because we picked the wrong target." (Emphasis added.)

(Link courtesy of The Daily Kos. Kos also suggests the true number of soldiers killed since Hussein was captured is 34.)

It's everywhere!

Further proof, if one needs it, that Dr. Atkins has seeped in everywhere:

Today, I went to our apartment complex's office, to pay the rent (the rent varies month-to-month because of water, sewage, & garbage charges, and they'd lost the cards this mailing).

And, as big apartment complex offices do, they gave me a freebie.

Two toffee bars. From Russell Stover.

Except... These were low-carb toffees, using Splenda as the sweetener.

Ye gods.