* On a different note, haven't you always wondered what would happen if an author's "characters" took him to court...?
* via a number of you on my friends list, here's an instructive photo essay on what the world eats. My own response is that I now want to be Sicillian, and that the amount of junk food on some of those (developed country) tables leaves me speechless, and that the weekly food budgets from various families leave me slack-jawed. Worth a look.