I’ve often heard of the top ten stolen cars, but here’s the whole list. I don’t think that it’s actually the best way to justify your purchase of a Boxster: your spouse may encourage you to buy a Eurovan instead.

A loyal reader forwarded this gallery of the Hanford “Alphabet Houses.” (We’re all sorry about the pop-ups) The site doesn’t (as far as I could tell) get into the history of the houses (the gov’t decides to import a shitload of folks, so builds a shitload of houses in a hurry for them), but having recently toured residential Richland, I must note the irony that a bunch of houses that were designed for rapid (rather than durable or especially interesting) construction have held up astonishingly well for 60 years or so, and the neighborhoods look less uniform than anything I’ve seen built in the last 30 years. Where’s the best place in your house to be during an air raid?

Some guy thinks blackmailing porn sites is a good idea. As some of the operators in the article imply (rather strongly), that industry has friends who don’t much care for being messed with. It’s a shame we probably won’t hear how it plays out.

Yahoo has a listing of their news photos by most emailed, most viewed, and a best rated system. Memepool is highlighting a guy who’s trying to make a comic strip out of every day’s top 3, but he seems to be having a tough time of it. I think that the top emailed pictures are another way to look at what people are interested in, like blogdex. Warning: you may or may not want to peek into people’s souls.

An excellent review of a comic book– that is, the review is really neat, the comic was apparently stupid.

Ocean cruising & cruise ships 2003 by Ward lists Carnival Conquest as “not yet rated.”

The CDC’s cruise ship inspection program awarded the ship an 89 out of 100. A detailed report is available, listing the problem areas.

They had an outbreak of the Norwalk virus in 2002.

There are a few reviews on epinions.

Cruise Critic also has a review.

Cruise Reviews also has some cruiser comments.

Cruisedirectonline, also.

Expedia has a very professionally written review.

How much a nerd am I? Here’s this cool and strange author, Harry Stephen Keeler, who I heard about in a commentary track for a Futurama episode on DVD.