Mark Pilgrim: "This is XFML." Once again, he makes it make sense.

Don't mess with stuff. Messing with stuff makes bad things happen. This is a corollary of the "if it ain't broke" rule.

Sometimes messing with something will break something that you would have thought was completely unrelated. Turns out that NOTHING is unrelated.

And sometimes, you don't have to mess with anything. Things just break spontaneously. Like spontaneous human combustion: it sucks, but it happens.

Lying Media Bastards: "He came across as extremely intelligent and reasonable, and managed to hijack 5 minutes of movie promo time to express a politically unpopular point of view." Remaining intelligent and reasonable on a subject (terrorism, Iraq, and the US response to September 11th) that is very emotionally charged is not easy -- but being heard is even more important than speaking out.