I had to go back to the dentist today for two broken fillings (good GRIEF, teeth), and then I was working for a good part of the day on a piece for MSNBC.com that I hope will make its appearance later this week, so today, I will be punting with the last refuge of the lazy internet writer: the Things I Saw On The Internet post.

• This post from Joe just cracked me right up. What’s terrifying is that these are exactly the songs these people are going to sing. Dollars to delicious donuts, Joe gets at least one of those right. Especially Syesha. She is totally going to sing “I Don’t Know How To Love Him.” Totally.
• This week’s episode of This American Life is completely amazing. Amazing. The bulk of the show is a story about cryonics — that’s freezing dead people, yes it is — and you’ll listen to it, and you’ll think, “Huh.” And then, “HUH.” And then, “OH MY GOD.” Because it’s weird, and then it gets weirder, and then it gets kind of unbelievable toward the end. I absolutely loved it.
• I am missing Tara and Dave while they’re in Hawaii, and even if I weren’t, I would after reading these absolutely hilarious fight transcripts. The one about the statue made me bark with laughter.
• I was utterly delighted by this Discovery Channel promo, courtesy of AdFreak. What a great spot, and what a wonderful example of a company that knows itself, knows what people like about it, and knows how to promote itself to its audience. Not to mention the fact that it’s just a sweet, neat little bit of film.
• I can’t say any of the Twitter commandments came as a big surprise, but they’re pretty funny.

A few tidbits from around the series of tubes:

• Mark Glaser at MediaShift takes aim at the Gawker Media pay-per-pageview model, and says a few other smart things while he’s at it about the short term, the long term, the meaning of a loyal audience, and the stubborn and unavoidable relevance of quality.
• Salon discovers (you have to look at an ad first; I’m sorry) that perhaps people in Pennsylvania are a little bit more sophisticated than the media condescendingly protecting them from “elitism” would have you believe.
• Another good one over at indexed.
• I’m with Alan about last night’s Idol, which I don’t remember well enough to discuss, in all honesty.

If you’re not familiar with indexed, today is a good day to try it. I’m also a big fan of this one.

That site, by the way, is a great example of why, if you haven’t already, you should familiarize yourself with Google Reader (or something like it) and get all your daily fixes in one place. I’d never remember to look at all the sites like that one every day if I didn’t have them in my Reader.

In political news, via Best Week Ever (the show is a little much for me, but the blog is excellent), I will have to admit that I do not understand why John McCain’s site needs to be running an NCAA tournament pool. I never understand the philosophy that goes, “Here’s a thing that exists, that sometimes people like, and I have a web site. Therefore, my web site should have that thing that exists that sometimes people like!” That is stupid…John McCain.

I gave this book to the Music Stylist for Christmas. I’m pretty sure it changed his life.

Someone who lives in Brooklyn takes a picture of her breakfast every day. It’s one of those lovely, weird internet things, where I’m not sure there’s much of a point, other than that (1) the pictures are often pretty; and (2) it’s a novel way to document your life. I think of “here’s what I had for breakfast this morning” as the very definition of what every bad eighth-grade diary sounds like when it’s written by someone with nothing to say yet, but somehow, this is charming. (Via thekitchn.com.)

Don’t forget that the new Survivor is tonight instead of tomorrow night, because of the NCAA tournament, also known as “Linda Cries Over A Probable First-Round Upset, The Way Things Are Going.”