Via McSweeney's, a letter to Prince regarding his address to the American Ornithological Society.

Cracked brings us the 25 least inspiring military operation names.

I always thought "Operation Just Cause" was funny because it sounded so defensive. Was Operation Nuh-UH! taken?

Oh, the moral perils presented by anonymity and the internet.

Via Snarky Bastards by way of TJICistan, a way to send anonymous e-cards with cute graphics to tell people you may have given them the clap.

However amusing, it would obviously be morally wrong to send one of these to, for instance, Sen. Larry Craig (R-Shitter).

Andrew Sullivan's post reminded me of a fun blog called Regret the Error, which runs funny or otherwise notable newspaper corrections. In this case, the Guardian was forced to concede that no matter how awesome Jack Bauer is, and no mater whether John Yoo thinks it would be appropriate, Jack can't interrogate a dead guy.

We said that, in the American TV drama 24, Jack Bauer, the counter-terrorism agent, resorted to electrocution to extract information. You cannot extract information from someone who has been electrocuted because they are dead. (Questioning, the Jack Bauer way, page 1, April 19.

The entire blog, especially the year-end roundups, is fantastic. Enjoy.

In honor of Passover, Evil Monkey considers which imaginary animals are kosher. Via BoingBoing.

Darth Vader, redubbed with James Earl Jones dialogue from "Coming to America." Hilarious. Hat tip: Rumpy at GamingTrend.

Also, don't miss the classic Darth Vader being an asshole.

Via BoingBoing, selections of Pulp Fiction if it had been written by Shakespeare. I dare thee utter 'What' again but once!

I have seen Hell. It is modular and brightly colored. It snaps. And it hurts like a bitch when you step on pieces of it in the middle of the night on the way to the bathroom.

You might call it Legoland.

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A site called Nerve … which is now seriously slammed because of the traffic … has a "Fifty Best Comedy Sketches of All Time" list up, with descriptions, some videos, and links. You may well disagree with inclusion, exclusion, and ordering, but it's a joy just to read.

Via Sullivan.

I never studied the great poets. I'm only an occasional consumer of poetry, and most of college was taken up in political science classes in the grim march towards law school. As a result, I don't know much about the lives of the most prominent poets of the twentieth century.

Nevertheless, when I read this:

Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold;
Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world,

. . . I can tell you with absolute certainty that William Butler Yeats had attended at least one kiddie birthday party.

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Via Lowering The Bar: how hard would it be to get your dunked-and-or-roasted ancestors a pardon? Let Kevin summarize:

(Translation: eat it, witches.)

So I wandered into the office on the late side a few days ago and got into an elevator full of other Friday slackers. No need to interact — our building's elevators are equipped with little flatscreen televisions that play about 25% oddly chosen news blurbs and 75% advertising.

This particular morning I was zoning and gazing at the screen when I saw a news item saying that scientists had drawn conclusions about the effect of caffeine on humans by experimenting on Rabbis.

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In all likelihood you discovered the writings of Maddox, the author of The Best Page In The Universe, ages ago. You read his ranting, you laughed, and moved on. Then, years later, you rediscovered Maddox, laughed all over again, and forgot.

Now Maddox is celebrating his tenth anniversary. Give in to your hate!

For those who've not discovered Maddox's rants, imagine that the front page editors at Something Awful were actually funny, and had something worthwhile to say. Oh Maddox is every bit as cruel, rude, and profane as they are, but he's not in this for money, or for cheap laughs making fun of handicapped people. No, Maddox is important. When I stumble across Maddox every few years, it's as though past greats of the interwebs, like Old Man Murray and Lum The Mad, had never died.

And to celebrate his anniversary, Maddox has updated the site with literally sentences of new content since you last visited. Won't you celebrate with him?

As frequent readers know, we pay close attention to what Google searches bring people to this site, and often blog about the funny and/or frightening results. (My favorite for March: "moral lesson about that [sic] we learned in jeepers creepers 2").

At first, penguins ruled the search engine logs — people looking for penguins came here like angsty kids to a Hot Topic. Then it was people searching for evidence that Mike Huckabee is a freemason who predominated. But, as Patrick pointed out in the last episode of "The Winding Road to Popehat," it's people looking for the famous pirate resignation letter. That's funny, because Patrick's post triggering the searches made an oblique reference to the pirate letter in the title, but didn't set it forth.

This cannot stand.

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I didn't get a chance to play any quality April Fool's jokes yesterday, though I did return an associate's blackberry to him wrapped in toilet paper after he lost it in the bathroom.

Bill Harris at Dubious Quality posted a classic and very successful April Fool's Joke that I enjoyed and empathized with as a guy and husband. He also posted a good link to the Museum of Hoaxes' Top 100 April Fool's Day Hoaxes.

But for sentimental reasons, this remains my favorite practical joke of all time.