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RFP: Chocolate-Covered-Bacon Cake

Consider this my personal request for proposals for design and construction of this cake that is perhaps too luscious for this world:

Business Guys on Business Trips

Forgive me if you've seen it before, but I just discovered this funny comic, a sort of apolitical GYWO for agency types:

Here's another really good one.

First the 31337 car; now the pwn3d car

Eyewitness photo courtesy of your friend and mine, Mr. Jeff J. Lin (who adds "This one is often parked outside University Zoka"):

I understand University Zoka is a nice place to work. If you don't mind being (at least implicitly) pwn3d.

You know that meth is available...

... when the light is on by Tom and Jill's dumpster:

Cake Wrecks!

This is mostly for Amy and Jill, but everybody should check out the Cake Wrecks blog. A few of my favorites:

Obama and the power of black radio

It's stories like this that make me think the math could really change this year—and it really needs to for Obama to win, since he holds such a narrow lead even after so much positive coverage:

Rush Limbaugh, meet your black liberal counterprogramming. Mr. Ballentine is one of the many African-American radio hosts and commentators who are aggressively advocating for Mr. Obama’s election on black-oriented radio stations daily.

Since Mr. Limbaugh first flexed his tonsils two decades ago, Democrats have publicly worried about their lack of an answer to him and his imitators, who have proven so adept at motivating conservative Republicans to go to the polls, especially for President Bush.

Now it is Mr. Obama, the presumptive Democratic nominee, who has a harmonious chorus of broadcast supporters addressing a vital part of his coalition, feeding and reflecting the excitement blacks have for his candidacy in general. Mr. Obama is getting support from white liberal talk radio hosts as well, but the backing he is getting from black radio hosts could be especially helpful to his campaign’s efforts to increase black turnout and raise historically low voter registration enough to change the math of presidential elections in battlegrounds and traditionally Republican states like this one.

“Urban stations can be in ’08 what Rush Limbaugh delivered for conservatives a generation ago,” said the Rev. Al Sharpton, who has a two-year-old radio program that is now syndicated on stations throughout the country, including in states like Georgia, Michigan, Ohio and North Carolina. “If you look at the political map of where our shows are, it matches the gap of unregistered voters.”

Best merch ever

From the Capital Hill Block Party, from Natalie Portman's Shaved Head... logoed inflatable dolphins. Brilliant:

Via the Amazon music blog. Sigh. You crazy kids. It seems like only yesterday you were playing the 826/GSTS opening.

The eleet car: why haven't I seen this already?

And who's got the 1337 car?

The entire world writes an open letter to McCain

Asking him to drop out. Ha, via TPM:

Pointing to polls that show Obama leading McCain 94 percent to 6 percent everywhere on the inhabited globe except the United States, where most polls give Obama a narrow one- to three-point lead, the entire world suggested that Americans might not be sufficiently informed about the U.S. election. "Look, this isn't funny," said a world representative, who spoke on condition of anonymity. "You've got one candidate who has a reasonably sane and comprehensive foreign policy combined with detailed knowledge of American domestic affairs, and another candidate who isn't always sure which country he's talking about and whose domestic policy consists of telling people to stop whining. Why are you even throwing this open to a vote? Are you people out of your minds?"

The world seemed to be especially impressed by Senator Obama's recent travels, during which the presumptive Democratic nominee demonstrated a thorough grasp of world affairs while draining a three-pointer "from downtown," as one Kuwaiti commentator noted.

From Politico: "Merkel open to Obama backrub"

As Ben Smith points out, this is from *Reuters*, not the Onion:

Bush was famously caught on camera at a G8 meeting in 2006 giving Merkel a quick backrub and the chancellor was asked on Wednesday whether she expected more massages from Bush's successor -- whether it's McCain or Obama.

"That's not really up to me," she joked. "But I wouldn't resist."