Pearls Before Swine.

• Senate recount: After unanimous ruling for Franken, attention shifts to Pawlenty — and Coleman - Finally, a ruling. But no real resolution, since the supremes didn't actually tell Pawlenty to issue the certificate. Oh well… We've waited this long, right?
• Grilled Cheesecake: A Sweet Take on a Classic Sandwich - Or, as I'd like to think of it, a heart-attack sandwich. Of course, I'd also like to think of it as delicious. But I would never have more than one bite.
• Ten Movies to Watch Instead of Star Trek - "…check out some movies that tackled science fiction just as well as the new Trek (and often better)."
  A good list of flicks that I would definitely prefer to watch instead of the new Trek. I know I'm in the minority amongst my friends as far as that goes (and probably the only one who hasn't seen it so far). But there you go. At least it's snark you can laugh along to.

Eli took a couple of shots of what it looked like after we finished work on Sunday. We’ve got one full “line” done, so that it’s fully bricked all the way around the labyrinth, up through the priestess point and around the center. We have the inner lines left, the demarcate the pathways. And we’re super swamped so I’m not sure when they’ll get done. So for now we have a labyrinth that is half rope and half brick. But I love it, all the same!

• Coaxing bees into making honeycomb sculpture - I'm not sure how I feel about this ethically (actually, I'm pretty conflicted about this ethically), but it is gorgeous. If you could convince me that the pieces were constructed without harming the bees, I would say this was an amazing cross-species collaboration.
• Medusa as a Young Girl - I think it would be fun to have pets on my head!
• Bachmann compares gays to pedophiles on hate crimes bill - Argh! This woman just makes me so mad sometimes: “[A]pparently people who are practicing pedophiles would be considered protected under this legislation, but not, I understand, veterans, not, I understand, pregnant women, not, I understand, 85-year-old grandmothers would be protected under this law,” she said. “But who would be protected? A pedophile, someone who considers themselves gay, someone who considers themselves transgender, someone who considers themselves a cross-dresser? That is who is protected.”

May Dandelion

Dilbert comic strip for 05/22/2009 from the official Dilbert comic strips archive.

• Let’s Hear It for the Bees - An illuminating column about Honeybees and circadian rhythms. "Honeybees really are nature’s little treasures."
• Magic and the Brain: Teller Reveals the Neuroscience of Illusion - Absolutely brilliant.
  "Every time you perform a magic trick, you're engaging in experimental psychology," Teller says. "If the audience asks, 'How the hell did he do that?' then the experiment was successful. I've exploited the efficiencies of your mind."
• Cure For Honey Bee Colony Collapse? -

• Steampunk Segway ( Legway ) - Too freakin' cool!
• Pew Poll on Obama at almost 100 days: Approved of, but even more liked - "As he approaches the 100-day mark of his presidency, Barack Obama’s job approval ratings are higher than those of his most recent predecessors. However, the 44th president is even more distinguished by his strong personal popularity. Fully 73% of Americans – including as many as 46% of Republicans – hold a favorable view of Obama as a person. Fewer people held favorable impressions of George W. Bush (61%) and Bill Clinton (60%) early in their first years."
• Bachmann: DHS head should resign if she believes ‘rightwing extremists’ report - More tasty tidbits from MN's favorite wacko: "To consider whole blocks of the American electorate somehow a threat to American security [...] It is like a hammer coming down on interest group after interest group that apparently the Obama administration perceives as a threat to us all."