Time's whirling by so fast and sometimes it seems there's not much even to smile at, but for some reason I find the cover of the December 14 issue of the New Yorker smileworthy--Talibanish figures zipping along an Afghanistan-looking mountain ledge on Ginger Segway personal transporters. By the way, the Segway link here is to somebody's weblog featuring 'Net segway mentions and also shows the New Yorker cover. This is an issue that arrived in the mail only today, although no doubt it's been on the newstands before now. In Fortune magazine for December 24 I like the illustration for the piece on Smucker's purchase of the Jif peanut butter line from Procter and Gamble--it's a photograph of a jar of peanut butter and a jar of grape jelly under the covers together in a miniature bed. There's a framed picture of a peanut in the shell over Jif's side of the bed and a similarly framed depiction of a purple grape on Smucker's side.