Various and sundry links for your edification and amusement...
Write an email to a future you.
National Geographic takes a close-up look at malaria, a big problem that's getting bigger.
Test your musical skills in 6 minutes.
Rich people who don't feel rich.
A very good flash game.

From an anonymous Craigslist poster...
Is Everyone Sure They Haven't Missed Me?
1.) I was at the Au Bon Pain in Harvard Square on Tuesday, May 25, at about 4:00 P.M. I was wearing a leather jacket and a pair of sneakers. Did anyone miss me?
2.) On Saturday, May 30, I was at the MFA, lurking around in the medieval gallery, hoping for a chance to expound on the development of egg-based paint. Did anyone miss this opportunity? I was wearing a fez and a variety of revolutionary buttons.
3.) Yesterday I was arraigned in Federal District Court for conspiracy to improve the United States Mail. I was clad in an orange jumpsuit. Did any of y'all miss me?
4.) Last Thursday I was on the red line between Davis and Porter. I was reading "Das Kapital" in Dutch and was tripping on NyQuil. I was wearing a vibrantly blue sombrero and an expression of pious complacency. My hands were dirty from a long morning of gardening, and the Six-Million Dollar Man decal on my t-shirt was starting to separate from the fabric. To my knowledge no one caught my eye and smiled at me. Is everyone sure about this?

I hope you had a great weekend. I did. I went to Skyline Drive in Shenandoah National Park for some leaf-peeping. The recent unseasonably warm weather left the scenery with more green and less red, orange, and yellow than I would've liked, but in the presence of such natural beauty it's unreasonable to complain about the exact wavelength of light at which such a gift presents itself. One highlight of the trip was Bear Fence, which requires a short but tricky scramble up rocky terrain. It reawakened climbing skills my ancestors honed over the millennia and had passed on to me but which I don't get to use at the office. Bear Fence rewards climbers with a 360-degree view for miles in every direction. When we got to the top, we were the only ones there; no other people could be seen or heard anywhere. Although this heightened our ability to reconnect with nature, it also made me wonder where everyone else was. Had the rest of the world discovered some activity more enjoyable than this, and they were all out doing it right now? By the time we were ready to head back down, about twenty others had joined us at the top, and a tiny sliver of my faith in humanity had been restored.