riding that train...

"The cyber guys can talk all they want about the cyber community, but they can't tell you the color of each other's eyes. What kind of community is that?"

--Bob Weir, Grateful Dead guitarist (as reported in Rolling Stone)

Well... I *can* tell you the color of everybody's eyes whose blogs I link to... :-)

pink elephants

Small herds of elephants have been running slightly amok in northeast India tea plantations and farms recently. Locals are turning activist.

"They have created, for example, an educational puppet show, illustrating, among other horrors, the dangers of distilling alcohol when there are elephants about: they are boozers as well as gourmands."

--The Economist