See, this is why we can’t have anything nice in this house.

The Dove of Peace should never have let him have those last five beers.

(From an idea by alert reader Dan.)

And I’m sure you’re hearing all about it in the US press.  Probably can’t even turn on the TV or the radio without seeing something about it.  Ahem.

Sigh.

PS, added as a somewhat crass but fully sincere afterthought: Come to think of it, picking up a copy of Who Hates Whom might not be a bad thing for the day. Can’t solve a problem without taking the time to try to understand it.

Whole reason I wrote the book, actually.

(Well, that, and the paycheck. But the other reason was bigger. You’d believe that if you saw the check.)

As you may have seen mentioned here before, this site’s tiny mascot has also been chosen as the symbol of the Chilean version of the One Laptop Per Child movement, which is using these a series of adorable little soft figures as part of the campaign.

Turns out the talented source of this cuteness is named Lizette Greco, and her Flickr set of puduitude is presented in slide show form here.  Prepare to want one for yourself. 

Thing is, the money you’d spend on it could help put a laptop in a kid’s hands.  So that would be even cooler and cuter.