First, a new stick figure slideshow cleverly and succinctly describes the Sub-Prime Mortgage Disaster in the United States. I found the explanation reminiscent of XKCD as well as a fitting accompaniment to Liar's Poker, which I read at the beginning of the year.

After Kottke posted his list of single serving sites, someone meta'd the topic and made a single serving site listing all other single serving sites. I particularly enjoy Beth Cherry, who maintains a single page blog with no archives or apparent feed to which to subscribe. This blog philosophy reminds me of my drawing professor senior year, who recommended keeping a sketchbook in which one glues down the page after completing each drawing (but admitted personally to tearing out and saving particularly good ones).

Finally, art imitates life. And let's hope life will imitate art come November.

The Guardian has a full discussion of the Santos-Obama story.

First, I have been a longtime admirer of Jason Santa Maria, designer extraordinaire and member of Happy Cog. He switches to a new, scary blog theme every October. He recently defeated Brian Taylor in a horror-themed match of Layer Tennis. I particularly enjoyed volleys 2 and 5.

Incidentally, Happy Cog was hired to redesign the website for the environmental news source and non-profit Grist, for which my friend/fellow DarkHorse Trina and my friend/bus-mate Corey work. When Trina told me of this news, I went a bit fan-boy and quizzed her on all the HTML masters she met.

To revisit an old favorite, Michael Paulus explores the bizarre and troubling skeletal systems beneath the skin of friendly and familiar cartoon characters.

Kevin Cornell and Matthew Sutter perform an interminable character sketch battle at The Superest. Start with The Unopposinator and work forward to the present.

And... that's it for now.