When the NFL cleared up its labor dispute I was going to make a joke conflating the news with the ongoing negotiations between the White House and Congress over the U.S. debt, but that latter situation blowing up around the same as the former seems to remove whatever slim fuel for humor or irony this could provide. Anyway, more serious matters aside, I am relived the tackle football season is back on track, and grateful to the Mets for forestalling their annual implosion until after I had football to look forward to.

R.I.P.: Flight Simulator dev dies in crash. Horrible, sad story.

Links:	Thanks Ant and Mike Martinez and Acleacius.
Play:	Gap Monsters. Rainbow Game.
Links:	Kari Byron and Mayim Bialik understand nerdy girls. Thanks TDW Geeks. Get a Camera Lens Chess Set For Only $151,202.
Stories:	Man awakens after 21 hours in morgue fridge.
Science:	Astronomers find largest water reservoir ever, 12 billion years in the past.
Images:	Cosplay Corner. Will Ferrel FAQ's. RIP Society of the Day. "It's not the heat, it's the stupidity."
Media:	The essence of Seinfeld. Captain America Uses Drugs. What is the best Super power- (it's not what you think...). NSFW.
Follow-up:	NMA "The Dark Knight Rises Trailer". Just when you thought they couldn't get stranger.