Irony photographed

Truck with flame decals, actually on fire. Photo found here.

Here's a few more links:

1. Animated gif of Warblade helping a cat down from a tree, perhaps? (Or it's the new Blue Beetle?)


2. Antique vampire hunting kit from the 1800s sells for $14,850? Via.


3. Obama logo cherry/blueberry pie. Via.


4. Michael Lewis writes about the latest Wall Street collapse:

Then came Meredith Whitney with news. Whitney was an obscure analyst of financial firms for Oppenheimer Securities who, on October 31, 2007, ceased to be obscure. On that day, she predicted that Citigroup had so mismanaged its affairs that it would need to slash its dividend or go bust. It’s never entirely clear on any given day what causes what in the stock market, but it was pretty obvious that on October 31, Meredith Whitney caused the market in financial stocks to crash. By the end of the trading day, a woman whom basically no one had ever heard of had shaved $369 billion off the value of financial firms in the market. Four days later, Citigroup’s C.E.O., Chuck Prince, resigned. In January, Citigroup slashed its dividend.

Read more of his latest article here. And you can buy his book Liar's Poker, which is about Wall Street in the 80's at Amazon. (My general rule is never buy a nonfiction book, unless it's written by Gladwell or Lewis.)

*Previously: A recently made "antique" vampire hunting kit.

*Buy Obama and McCain action figures at Amazon.