Reaction Jackson Tuesday:

* Steve says my picture of the Mona Lisa puts him in mind of this YouTube video of five hundred years of female portraits in 2 minutes.

*Shankar links in the comments to David Cross's Open Letter to Larry the Cable Guy.

* Everyone in the world is talking about the creation mususem.

* Warning: soft drinks are seriously bad for you. I'm two months dry (de-fizzed?) and I'm starting to not miss the delicious taste... all that much. The first time I stopped drinking soda I went nine months before I relapsed, and I've bounced six-months-on, six-months-off since then—but this time I want to stay off the stuff for good.