A very cute picture of a spider on a frog on a turtle. You may also wish to read the children's story that sprang from this picture, or the shorter, and much better, account of the rescue.

Flickr user KCIvey has pictures of former Saturday Night Live writer and funnyman Al Franken at a fundraiser where he draws freehand a map of the US from memory while answering questions about healthcare and other topics. For the skeptics, there's also a video on YouTube of him doing the same thing. I've always liked Al Franken, and I'd buy one of these in a heartbeat.

Flickr user Dean Allen has kindly posted a mouth-watering set of pictures showing how he made bacon from, uh, scratch, I guess. It's amazing, thoroughly interesting, and makes me want to go eat bacon.

Flickr user Sean (Ajka_Hungary) posts a very powerful request from his step-father to please stop smoking.

This is a really, really cool picture of Chicago at night.