Mullfoto of the Day

This is the side of a mountain in the Exit Glacier National Park in Alaska. I asked an older guy whether I was looking at what used to be a glacier.

"No," he said. "That's just snow melt."

"Oh," I said. "I guess I've been conditioned to think that's a result of global warming."

"You know what we call an area where there used to be a glacier, but now it's just dirt?"

"No. What?" I asked.

"Wine Country."

And then he walked off cackling and shaking his head.

Catchy Caption of the Day

Actual Caption:

An elderly man checks his e-mails at an Internet cafe for elderly people in Tokyo, July 2007. Members of the Computer Grannies Society visit the cafe to exchange messages and photos, and show each other their creative work, paintings, novels, poems and music.

Ok, this elderly man does't look so much like a potential (or real) terrorist as he does like that guy with the question marks all over his jacket who screams about helping you get money from Federal programs in late night TV commercials, but still ...