"My wife and I intended to make our exit together but had very limited time to do so." Is euthanasia an acceptable way to deal with severe mental or physical illness? Shouldn't we respect someone's right to die, if that is what they want? Maybe the easiest way is just to kill ourselves - the Church of Euthanasia would appreciate it.

Traveling in comfort In 2002, two intrepid cyclists rode a human powered couch through Maritime Canada. [via Presurfer]

Mathowie is working on getting new people into MetaFilter.

Testing, testing, etc. There's a test metaphilter mofi up. Please go ahead and try it out, let me know what bugs you find, what you think of the colour scheme, and so on. more inside

web-less spider webs 'The thumbnail pictures do not show spider webs; they show the tracks of spiders during web construction. The tracks have been coloured to emphasise the different phases of web construction.' Posted to mofi by dhruva.