♣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.

The new issue of Boston magazine is on stands, featuring a whopping 320 pages of awesomeness, some of which are mine all mine. It’s my first as editor of the City Journal section (although it isn’t online in full, here’s the section’s opener), and I’ve got a fun, long piece about the war between two local “duck tour” companies, called, “Duck, Duck… Lawsuit!” I stumbled upon the fight before it became a legal battle, did most of the reporting before any papers were filed, and then watched anxiously as it went through the court system while our deadline fast approached. Another editor and I ended up having to stick around the office until 2 a.m. one time, making sure this thing was as up-to-date as possible. eXtreme jOurnalism, my friends.