I'm reflecting about my dad a bit more than usual lately, as it was one year ago today he died after a battle with lung cancer. As it often the case with such anniversaries, it seems both more recent and more long ago than that, depending on how I look at it. Anyway, I don't want to be a downer for you, since I am holding up fine on my end, but I will just throw out the idea that this may serve as a nudge to give a call to one's parents for a quick "I love you," and I admit to harboring the even more ambitious thought that someone out there will take this as an omen to quit smoking cigarettes.

Links:	Thanks Ant and Mike Martinez and Acleacius.
Play:	Brave Kings. Legend of Kalevala.
Links:	Comic-Con Cosplay Spotlight: Gender Bent Justice League. Thanks Boing Boing. Honor Your Dead Loved Ones by Stuffing Their Ashes in a Bullet and Shooting It. Thanks [H]ard-OCP. 6 Movie and TV Universes That Overlap in Mind-blowing Ways.
Stories:	The man who couldn't stop drawing. Thanks nin via Digg. Cocaine recovered from sunken sub off Honduras. Thanks Boing Boing.
Images:	The War Between Developers, Designers & Project Managers. Thanks George B.
Media:	Geoff's medical. Love Geoff. Ned Flanders goes Dexter. Neodymium magnets: How to mess up a CRT.
The Funnies:	FoxTrot.