Great Sign, Great Escape...and Other Afternoon Links

-Maybe the best sign ever...(a wonderful prank...H/T Jim)

-Whoa...Robert Reich has a blog!

-I feel a little safer going to New Zealand in a month (woo hoo!) because their criminals seem to be totally inept, as these guys whose escape was stopped--by a pole. Video here

-Have to say I'm really sad to see Sam Weinman go. His hockey honest and humorous hockey analysis will surely be missed.

-Torre stands behind his book. Bashes Bernie Williams (H/T Paul). And you can understand why Roger Clemens would be a little, um, heated during games (H/T Pete Abraham).

-Speaking of big balls...

-Wow...so the Steelers should guard Larry Fitzgerald? You don't say! The Terrible Towel (don't forget it!!!). And the Super Bowl is not that big a beer holiday (H/T livethelushlife on Twitter)

-Technicolor Yankee Stadium.

-A good Rick Reilly article!

-Good-bye to CDS as we know it?

-Freakonomics blog: Hopefully spurring more free online content (23,000% increase in sales!!!!), putting a price on friendship, California gets a "green" light, coupons are more popular than Britney Spears, true cost of credit cards, the failure of macroeconomics, do uncommon names turn kids into criminals?

-I thought the weather delaying my flight yesterday sucks...but this probably sucks more.

-Also sucks to live in California.

-Bloomberg goes after salt.

-The "future of journalism"

-Cesspool in Dubai

-The Maverick is back from her hole (Tina Fey, one last time?)

-Happy Birthday, Sixpoint

-And Starbucks is not only cutting jobs, but also decaf coffee after noon (though now they say they will still provide upon request)

iGoogle's Jon Stewart quote of the day:

"NO!!!! You cannot interrupt David Blain’s Dive Of Death to give us news about our economies.. dive of death." -(The Daily Show 9/25/08)

Hopefully more Rose Art Museum updates later if I can find something good...