Pack mentality: Cut deals with the enemy, maximize liquidity, punish the welshers, and other free-market lessons of the typical bike race, from Fortune.

Oscar the cat predicts patients' deaths, from The Boston Globe.

For Athletes, an Invisible Traffic Hazard, from The New York Times. Sigh.

The Story of Roy, from Crazy Aunt Purl.

The Devil Wears Microsoft?

Cycling's Biggest Dopes: A reader's guide to the new Lance Armstrong and Floyd Landis books, from Slate.

Flight of the Conchords. Wow. Just wow.

The connection: When Ken met Emira, they changed each other's worlds, from The Boston Globe, courtesy of Robin. Great story.

Freakonomics: Payback Time, from The New York Times.

The Cat Blog... Pippy Style.

Rocky II, III, IV Decisions Overturned After Stallone Caught With Performance-Enhancing Drugs, from The Onion, courtesy of Brad M.

The Difference Between Boys and Girls, from Fat Cyclist.

Plastic Ocean: Our oceans are turning into plastic...are we?, from Best Life.

In Tennessee, Goats Eat the ‘Vine That Ate the South’, from The New York Time.

Why Chinese is So Damn Hard, from Pinyin, courtesy of Kevin.

President Bush Reaches Out to Nation's Fallen Bees, from The Onion Radio News, courtesy of Heather.

This American Life Completes Documentation Of Liberal, Upper-Middle-Class Existence, from The Onion, courtesy of Heather.

Chad Vader.

Fix the AMT (But Not Yet): The looming Alternative Minimum Tax catastrophe, and why the Democrats shouldn't try to prevent it, from Slate.

General Knowledge: Why no one wants to be Bush's war czar, from Slate.

ECCC's "Ask a Pro" Forum on leg-shaving, from Slate.

The Hospital: Daddy gets a guilt trip, from Slate.

Doris Kearns Goodwin on The Daily Show.

The Woman Warrior at 30:
Maxine Hong Kingston's secrets and lies, from Slate.

Meow Meow Mr. Rogers for President Meow, from Mason-Dixon Knitting.

The Women’s War, from The New York Times.