Such a tease: Quoting The Daily Show host liberally, The Guardian (U.K.) tries to explain Jon Stewart to Britain.

...Less blunt than Michael Moore, but more politically engaged than late-night hosts Jay Leno or David Letterman, Stewart, 42, combines the irreverence of Chris Evans with the wit of Armando Iannucci. His show is anything but milquetoast.

That about says it all, doesn't it?

The Monsterlist of Halloween Projects by Mark Butler:

"These are not your little kids Halloween crafts, every scary devious seriously spooky prop and project designed for truly scaring people is listed here."

He's not kidding. Here, Popular Mechanics meets Salvadore Dali. F'rinstance:

Glowing Pickle - instructions for running household current through a pickle causing it to glow.

This is a dangerous pickle.

It's October. Early October. You have time.

How the old boy network is built and maintained by David Weinberger.

The Miller's Tale: The parsers are poring over a personal letter from alleged source I. Lewis (Scooter) Libby, Vice President Dick Cheney's chief of staff, to jailed Times reporter Judith Miller on Sept. 15, posted on the N.Y. Times website here: Lawyers' Correspondence in Miller Case (pdf)"

The sentence that is creating the buzz: "Out West, where you vacation, the aspens will already be turning. They turn in clusters, because their roots connect them."

Denver-based criminal defense attorney Jeralyn Merritt, writing at Talk Left, agrees the leaves turn in clusters but doesn't see hidden meanings in foliage references. She does offer a view of the legal dance, and thinks there will be indictments, although perhaps not over the leak of Valerie Plame's CIA status.

Play catchup on the incremental nuts and bolts of this story here at Poynter.

Woneffe is posting warm photos of downtown Providence, with many more in her his gallery.