Afternoonery.

* Support for renewable energy technology to fight global warming is weakening in the face of worldwide economic problems and the true scale of the carbon reductions required, a survey published today has suggested.

Figures presented at the UN climate talks in Poznan, Poland, show that climate experts have less faith in alternative energy than they did 12 months ago.

* Grist reviews 2008's most essential book on shit.

* DFW's last book will be published next year, based off the Kenyon College commence speech he gave in 2005. Devotees may recall that this speech was the basis for my MetaFilter obit post.

* Everyone's in love with this evolved Mona Lisa. More evolution fun at Pharyngula and MetaFilter.

* Everyone's in love with Macs.

* Don't miss Metallica's latest music video, a prophecy of zombie disaster originating with the Tungska Event.

The surrealism of Mark Bryan. Fantastic. Via Posthuman Blues.

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.

No posting today on account of our second wedding anniversary. (Just nine years left till Jaimee has to buy me a sword.) In honor of the occasion, this week's blog icon is a picture of the Mona Lisa from our honeymoon, my favorite shot from the whole trip. Also, I've put up a few some never-before-Flickr'd photographs from our wedding—none of which show me crying like a big baby.

See you Tuesday.