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Vote for your favorite.

I like the walleye

and the heron

I got an email forward from a relative titled "Why Dogs Bite". Here were the best pictures:

Cerberus

Spider Pug

Aaron Hopkins: Optimizing Page Load Time. Fascinating investigation into how to make your pages download faster.

Kurt Kleiner: The modern world killed off the nap: A tribute to the soft pleasures of dozing, backed up by hard science.

As a species, we seem designed to nap. Sleep researchers have long known that our natural circadian rhythms show two distinct dips in energy and alertness. The major dip starts in the late evening, helping us get ready for a good night's sleep.

But there's another significant dip in the early afternoon that, in a saner world, would have us all dropping off. From an evolutionary point of view, this pattern makes some sense — our ancestors evolved in the tropics, where a desire to sleep during the hottest part of the day probably helped ensure survival....

MetroNaps sells naps as a productivity-enhancing experience for office workers, one that will send you back to your high-powered job with a better attitude and a better ability to get the job done.

If that's what it takes to pry a little room out of the day for more napping, I'm all for it. But for me, the productivity enhancement is almost beside the point. It's as if someone were arguing that I should eat lunch so that I could work harder.

I always feel a little sleepy after lunch. Maybe I should stop fighting it.

New York Magazine discovers that in New York City, a dollar is worth 76.2 cents.

The authors compare the cost of living in New York city not only to the national average, but to "a city with a statistically average cost of living yet some semblance of a cultural life": Minneapolis.

There's some interesting comparisons (read: relevant to me).

Prix fixe dinner at top restaurant
La Belle Vie . . . . . $80 a person
Per Se. . . . . . . . . . $210 a person

Museum admission
Walker Art Center . . . . . . . . . $8
MoMA . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $20

Movie ticket
The Prestige, St. Anthony Main Theater . . $8
The Science of Sleep, BAM . . $10