So John Hughes died yesterday. No doubt 10,000 eulogies will memorialize his work bringing Ferris Bueller to life and making Molly Ringwald a star. Maybe a few will even remember that Hughes brought us the ever enthusiastic Clark Griswold.

But I’ll always think of a different movie when think about John Hughes, one that some people, at least, have hailed as a classic. Those people are right.

It also turns out that Hughes was, in addition to all his filmmaking greatness, a pretty nice guy.

So the last four entries now have alternated between complaining about Mavic and joking about how I’d like to end up in prison in Europe. One wonders, does this somehow mean something?

Anyway, yeah, maybe I should commit some crimes in Austria.

Seriously though, this is a good story about prison architecture that you should definitely read.

I did not know that Canon (of printer and camera fame) had a whole site devoted to bizarre little art projects. Which is too bad, because some of their stuff is extremely awesome.

Thanks to Jeff for pointing this out to me.

Ok. Not really — but this looks seriously fun.

Sorry I haven’t posted more updates in the last week since I got back from Lapland. It’s been really busy. Part of the problem is that I’ve been working to help break this huge story for Cyclocross Magazine. Check it out!