Thank you very much Alex! And good luck to all!

@Mr. Binky: yes, they did know someone in Google, that's how they pulled it off. The video tells the full story.

Elephant-headed indeed. Quite right, whackjob1972: we'll fix it on the Traveler site tomorrow. Thanks!

More knockout photos of nudibranchs on National Geographic's site, with info on how they use their outlandish coloring:
http://ngm.nationalgeographic.com/2008/06/nudibranchs/holland-text

Oooh, I want one! Much cooler than the boring white plastic one I've got.

If you want to see the Trash People they are currently on display in the courtyard at the National Geographic Society headquarters on M St. and 17th St. NW in Washington, DC. But better hurry, they're leaving on Tuesday June 10.
One of my co-workers at Nat Geo dislikes the term "Trash People" and calls them Metallic Americans instead. http://www.nationalgeographic.com/museum/exhibitions/trashPeople.html

@Dave: yes, it does remind me of the Theater Nights loophole in Minnesota, and Intelligent Travel covered that story too:
http://intelligenttravel.typepad.com/it/2008/02/twin-cities-bar.html

More creative ways around unpopular laws.

Nice selection, but my all-time favorite is still the rolling bookshelf chair:
http://intelligenttravel.typepad.com/it/2007/10/have-books-will.html

Check out these cool map-related valentines on Cartophilia: http://cartophilia.com/blog/2008/02/be-my-cartographic-valentine.html

If you'd like to know the origin of the @ symbol, check it out here:

http://intelligenttravel.typepad.com/it/2006/11/where_its.html

Pretty cool! Do you think she would knit me a nudibranch like this?
http://magma.nationalgeographic.com/ngm/2007-11/marine-miniatures/liittschwager-photography.html

Don't forget to celebrate Pi Day (3/14)-- it's much more delicious!

Lifehacker has a story this week about Top 10 Distraction Stoppers that are not nearly so uncomfortable:
http://lifehacker.com/software/lifehacker-top-10/top-10-distraction-stoppers-311387.php

This is funny, but for real 3-D interactive brain that you can spin around and upside down, check out National Geo's site: http://magma.nationalgeographic.com/ngm/2007-11/memory/brain-interactive.html

Hmmm! That NASCAR blob is clearly a rip-off of the animated character Pom Pom, former best friend of Homestar Runner. But Pom Pom is from the Isle of Pom, and not a naturalized U.S. citizen, as far as I know, so I think using him to typify the average American citizen is inaccurate: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pom_Pom_%28Homestar_Runner%29