How depressing! One of our favorite theme blogs has gone off the air: The Pasta-Log Project has been an object of admiration since we found it long ago. And how could we not -- this guy takes a snapshot of every dish of macaroni he eats, then posts the photo in a giant archive. What's more, he seems to eat pasta just about every day. My hero!

But alas, he didn't pay his ISP bill. I visited his site eariler today and got the following sad message:

hello everybody. pastalog is not dead yet. i just had some technical troubles with the server, they deleted my mysql database, i forgot to pay... i have all the pictures and i'm keeping taking them. now i have to buy a new database and make about 590 insert queries. i cannot do this manually so i'm creating a script. i just need some days, maybe weeks.

The horror. I had the idea of buying a dirty-water hot dog every day I'm in Manhattan, photographing it, and starting a competing website. But I can't kick a guy when he's down... Poor bastard.