I went out shopping for the first time in ages today. In case you don't live here you might want to consider at least stopping by for a visit, because it's amazing here right now. The sun was out all day yesterday and today and people have gone into summer mode overnight. There are people sun bathing in the parks and sitting outside in cafés drinking and chatting (in the old fashion way). I picked up a couple of things, but the real coup was a t-shirt with three pictures (in three different colours) of a Rumble-in-the-Jungle era Don King. Is it hot? Hell yeah!

Y'all are smart people, so maybe you can explain something to me that I've been thinking about today: Why is it Southpaw and not Westpaw? Surely, it would make more sense seeing as we usually consider North to be up and South to be down. There's a story about the Cubs' home plate facing east, meaning that if the pitcher was left-handed, his throwing arm would be to the south, but that doesn't sound plausible.

I like silly things and nothing is more silly than spending time making buttons with rude words on them. Here are a couple that won't make you blush or call an exorcist [via Davezilla].

Heard any good terror jokes lately? Apparently, American comedians of Middle Eastern decent are beginning to deal with issues of racial profiling and patriotism in their materiale. And the good news is that they're pretty funny:

He's like, 'Yeah, what Arab country's your family from?' So I choose the most peaceful popular one that he'd like. I'm like, 'We're from the same Arab country that Aladdin is from.'

You know how Francis tries to teach people Swedish one word at a time? Well, I thought about doing something like that since Danish is an even more obscure language than Swedish, but I never got around to it. But since you'd only want to learn the swear words anyway you might as well go here. They get pretty advanced towards the end.