Here at the YBNBY Head Office we have attempted, like many of you have done in your own head offices while in your underpants, to make sense of Alaskan superhero Sarah Palin's resignation. At first, second and 33rd glance, it is hard to decipher the real reason The Barracuda stepped down.

We're confident in our ability to sniff out a story. There had to be a more logical explanation as to why she was quitting while saying she's not quitting because that is the quitters way out.

But dammit, we were stumped. No freaking idea what she is talking about. Is she speaking in riddles? According to our crack research team, Sarah Palin is hard to understand because an astonishing 77% of her speech patterns fall into the categories of "political clichés, buzz words, nonsense and gobbledygook." We tried even harder, running Palin's recent speeches through idiom dictionaries, Russian literature (it's in the ballpark, no?) even Webster's Talking Out of Your Keester Translator and were still confused. Attempting to walk the words through Elvish and back to English was a big mistake, we see that now.

However! I have made an archeological discovery that can finally makes sense of the former Alaska Governor's speech patterns.

It's becoming an annual tradition that the Friday night before the NYC Triathlon, the events participants gather for the NYC Underwear Run.

This year, the run was sponsored by the island of Jamaica and set a world record for the largest group underwear run.
(Yeah?)

Naturally, the sight of boxers and panty's jiggling and bouncing 1.7 miles through Central Park attracts a crowd. More viewers than the actual Triathlon I'd guess.
(That's not to slight the triathletes. It's just that the Underwear Run is at night and the Triathlon starts at dawn. New Yorkers are more night owls.)

Anyway, there's a few good pages with photos from the event. Here's a good one.

Or enjoy the landscaping and low angles for this video...

While it's no Tacoma Narrows Bridge, the Manhattan Bridge does it's fair share of flexing. (And, unlike Tacoma Narrows, the Manhattan Bridge is meant to adjust ... slightly) The above time-lapse video shows the Manhattan Bridge flex under the weight of subway cars as they pass over the span.

(Via Laughing Squid)

William Shatner delivered Sarah Palin's farewell speech in poetic form on The Tonight Show. I heard this and had my doubts about how verbatim it was (I didn't watch the speech for some reason), so I found a transcript. The non-poetic parts were edited out, but otherwise it's all right there. Looks like Palin has found her next career.