Some days the Internet infuriates me. (The same opinions, echoed a million times over; the same angry dissections of articles from, of all things, the NYTimes Style section; the same picture of a cat wearing a melon helmet when bloggers could be more ambitious and create their own cat-with-melon-helmet pictures.)

Fortunately, other days it really rewards me. Ever since my friend Chris started his weblog, MYTHSTORY, I have felt richly rewarded. Having something new, smart, and very funny to read has a nice way of cosmically balancing out the terrible stuff I read against my better judgment. I hope you like Mythstory, too.