Friday morn­ing linkage.

• Mark Scribner at Open Market has a few choice words for urban plan­ners: “…they are merely mis­di­rect­ing tax­payer dol­lars and pri­vate invest­ment into devel­op­ment projects that no one desires enough to pri­vately pro­vide — another exam­ple of the road to Hell being paved (a bit more lit­er­ally in this case) with good inten­tions.”

• Greg Gutfeld dis­cusses the idea of build­ing a Muslim-friendly gay bar near the pro­posed mosque site at Ground Zero. The humor­less and igno­ble twerps at Media Matters, of course, fail mis­er­ably in their assess­ment.

• The peo­ple be talkin’ about Brion Gysin more.

• 18 of the world’s strangest restrooms.

• Jon Stewart does have moments, now and then, of fierce lucid­ity.

• The world’s worst vaca­tions: Bali; Belize; the Indian Ocean; Uganda; Thailand; London; Cancun (twice); Yemen; the Jersey Shore; the Great Barrier Reef; Moab, Utah; the Mediterranean; Istanbul; Luxor; Mont Tremblant, Canada; Baja; Yellowstone National Park.

• Francis Collins: Year 1 review.

• Angry peo­ple pay more atten­tion to rewards than threats. (Why don’t cus­tomer ser­vice goons under­stand this?)

• The ocean’s vac­uum clean­ers.

• Oregon: the shrimp glow here.

• Naked peo­ple on a roller coaster.

• Cheese calamity closes Wisconsin high­way.

• In Ohio: The pious vs. the leaf­less.

• Pennsylvania guy wants to change his name to Boomer the Dog.

• Nice Roger Ebert piece on Christopher Hitchens, belief and death.

• The majesty of a good shower scene (NSFW).

• So many great films are explored at Movies About Girls — Bikini Chain Gang; the Pig Keeper’s Daughter; and Dinosaur Valley Girls (NSFW).

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