Best photo of the day - Grand Prismatic Spring

From the WashingtonPost.com,

Grand Prismatic Spring, Yellowstone National Park, captures the essence of Yellowstone's world-renowned geysers and hot springs that are fed by the enormous heat from its active volcanic system. This 60 meter-wide, boiling hot spring has an array of vivid colors produced by thermophile bacteria that thrive in hot water.

Photo by Henry Holdsworth, Courtesy of Robert B. Smith

Best tool of the day - MeetingMeiser

Found at NYT.com:

a sister publication of CNET, BNET has found a way to figure out how much $$ is being wasted by a meeting. Called the MeetingMeiser, it uses the calculator from PayScale.com, which is usually used by job hunters trying to figure out how much to ask for.

Best quote of the day - Love, bread and sci-fi

“Love doesn’t just sit there, like a stone,” the novelist Ursula K. LeGuin wrote in The Lathe of Heaven. “It has to be made, like bread, remade all the time, made new.”

Source: Culinate, The staff of life; Family time is bread time by By Zanne Miller, October 31, 2007

Two key notes: My mom had yards and yards of bookshelves dedicated to sci-fi so as a kid, I knew the importance of what Ursula said. And two, I love to bake bread.