Running a bit late this morning, but this will help keep normal people hours (ooh, look... the Sun!), as the BlueJet is being serviced and readied for a trip later this week to the Game Developer's Conference in San Jose, CA. Anyway, time is too fleeting for a ramble, so if you feel I've deprived you here, a suggested alternative to reading a typical Out of the Blue is to skip your morning coffee and whack yourself in the head a few times with something like a telephone receiver.... you'll never know the difference.

Happy Birthday to the CPL's Angel Munoz, 40 years young today.

Link of the Day: Beaver County Militia Photo Recon, offering an expose on A.O.G. (Amish Occupied Government), MIB (Mennonites in Black), and all manner of other startling conspiracies. Thanks Tom Byers.
Story of the Day: Imagining First Contact (Wired). Thanks Cannelbrae. "Every year a group of renowned scientists, writers, and artists gets together to simulate space explorers and aliens meeting for the first time." Apparently this is what happens when the D&D generation starts getting grants.
Bonus Story: Salon Technology: Can't take a joke, regarding the JoeCartoon site, a former Link of the Day. Thanks elvis.