While reviewing a San Francisco restaurant site for work, I came across their tips when writing a review on their site, which included this great one:

Proof read and spell check your reviews, it adds creditability

Continuing the cool-buildings theme from yesterday, these are nice some photos of Apple's new 24-hour (!) store in New York. The coolest thing is that there's no actual storefront: the entrance is a glass cube with an Apple logo, and you go down underground into the store.

(More photos of the store here and here.)

Normally I don't post little one-off things like this, but Volkswagen's new storage facility is very cool. (via kottke)

Thanks to my brother for pointing this out to me. I had forgotten about "Aaaannnd heeerrre come the pretzels..." -- Simpsons Quotes For Everyday Use

Off Mound, Mets' Ace Loosens Up in His Garden (NY Times)

"It has to be in you to work with flowers, but if you grow up with it, you realize how it can make you untouchable," [Pedro] Martínez said. "If something hurts, it disappears when you are in the garden. It's about deep thinking, about letting go."

I couldn't agree more. After a bad day, there's nothing I enjoy more than relaxing by taking care of my gardens.

Random updates and links:

• New websites for Amelia and Jeremy are up now.
• Everyone's seen Stephen Colbert's speech at the White House Correspondents' Association dinner by now, but still...
• Since I rarely update the Photos section of this site, I'm trying out Flickr to see if that gets me to take more photos. (My new camera is definitely helping.)
• Crossed of my list of "things that I should have been doing a long time ago that my friends probably assumed I was already doing": joined Netflix. After way too many scratched DVDs from our local Blockbuster, we've converted to Netflix and so far we've been very happy with the service and selection. (Plus it's nice to get some non-junk mail every once in a while.)