♣HIGH-FIVE, HUMANITY! We finally did it! We finally built a personal, flying saucer! Be sure to watch the video, and jam along to its music. And here’s a related news story.

♣VIDEO DATING SERVICES: Full of winners.

♣POLITICALLY CONSERVATIVE CRUISES: same thing.

♣A NICE PIECE of outrage: A local columnist tries doing a fluff piece on a bridge, and the bridge’s operator responds by firing an employee he talked to. So now he’s writing a different, far better column.

♣WHEN YOU’RE CHALLENGED to draw 200 comics, no idea is a bad idea.

♣WHO NEEDS TO watch movies before reviewing them? Not my friend Zack. His great, new videos are the Wayne’s World of movie-review shows, and they’re here and here. (They’re Quicktime videos, though, so they may take a few minutes to load.) And speaking of movies, this should run before every one of them.

♣IF YOU NEED some help at the self-checkout line — and don’t we all? — then this might be of service to you.

♣CHECK OUT THE photo underneath this blog entry’s title, “50 Year Storm fails to dampen Tahsis Spirit.” Nothing but, uh, un-dampened spirits there, I tell you.

♣HOW TO COMBINE weddings and bicycles? Apparently, like this.

♣AND THEN, THERE’S this.