Well E3 has come and gone, today is the day when many of the regrets from not actually attending the show melt away as one remembers trying to make one's way onto an overbooked flight full of geeks trying to convince the flight attendants that the extra bagful of t-shirts you are lugging does not put you over the limit for carry-on baggage. Running the server for only a short time without the messageboards proved very quickly that they were at least partly to blame for the load problems that were killing the server, so they will remain disabled while a bug hunt ensues. On the brighter side, you will likely notice that other scripted elements of the site, like news archive searches and accessing .plan updates, are ticking like Pittsburgh now (presuming that's a good thing).

Link of the Day: All Your Smurf Are Belong to Us (Requires Flash). Okay, so 'all your base' is kind of old, but it's still the newest reference in a clip that includes the $10,000 Pyramid, Smurfs, Charro, and more. Thanks WM|Lunatic.
Story of the Day: Woman takes bite out of crime suspect (Chicago Sun-Times). I can't imagine a funnier article on the completely non-humorous topics of sexual assault and castration, but the line that reads "Police 'put two and two together,'" almost made me bust a gut. Thanks Secret Agent SP.
Follow-up: Beware Monkey-Man, Scourge of the Gullible (NY Times-free subscription required). Thanks Jonathan C. Forster.