From Google News via Vinh… funny.

ATF rids Univ. of ninja threat
ATF agents are always on alert for anything suspicious — including ninjas.
Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearm agents, on campus Tuesday for Project Safe Neighborhoods training, detained a “suspicious individual” near the Georgia Center, University Police Chief Jimmy Williamson said.
Jeremiah Ransom, a sophomore from Macon, was leaving a Wesley Foundation pirate vs. […]

I’ve been thinking about “guilty pleasures” lately. Not sure what sparked it. I Googled the phrase and came up with these MSNBC articles which are amusing in that Reader’s Digest humor sort of way. My favorite guilty pleasure from an MSNBC reader:
Milli Vanilli
I love those songs! And no matter who actually sang […]

Ypsidixit posted this image of a gravestone in her image heavy post about Ypsilanti’s high-tacky Union-Udell Cemetary.

I couldn’t resist:

On my way to Hank’s (a former co-worker) “goodbye” lunch today, I spotted this truck which had hit the railroad tressle on Liberty west of Main. It was a rental, so the driver probably had no idea what his/her clearance was, but it was certainly less than 10′6″. Oops.
George caught this too.

MSN UK is running a Thought Thieves video contest, calling “intelectual property thieves,” “thought thieves.” I guess that makes creatively reusing what should be our cultural commons a thought crime. Hasn’t Microsoft learned they should avoid Orwellian language?

Pranks with a Purpose:
In Los Angeles, Heavy Trash, a coalition of anonymous architects, designers and urban planners, have erected orange viewing platforms outside the gates of three upscale LA neighborhoods to protest what they see as a disturbing proliferation of gated communities.
via WorldChanging.

Erica writes about a prank today at Cornell. Someone put a disco ball on McGraw tower. Cornell, like other schools, has a long history of campus pranks. Umich doesn’t seem to have this kind of tradition.

Having just purchased one of these little gadgets for talking-while-typing, Boondocks hit home this week.
Ucomics, Boondocks’ host, appears to be broken today. I can’t get to yesterday’s comic. The series starts here and here.
Update: Found the comic to which I refered and swapped it out here.