This from-the-archives Hugh MacLeod comic pulled 1,181 diggs this morning. Timeless, Hugh, timeless.

Web cartoonist and blog punditarian Hugh MacLeod dislikes many aspects of Web 2.0. We share his pain, but not his taste in metaphors. No. 2 on his list:

When flights to Austin (and SXSWi) were grounded in Dallas yesterday, one man saved the day. The creative and demented cartoonist Hugh MacLeod — who initially raised some eyebrows with his boisterous plane banter— turned out to be the best entertainment during six hours stuck on the runway. By the time the plane took off, the same people who'd asked him to keep-it-down-please were offering the man a ride to his hotel. This is the cartoon I told him I'd run to thank him for getting us here and being such a lovable and loud bastard. (Photo: Scott Beale / Laughing Squid.)

Cartoonist Hugh Macleod's Blue Monster — the beast urging Microsofties to "change the world or go home" — will get its own bus for the Consumer Electronic Show in Las Vegas on January 5. The blue guy with the big teeth is more cute than frightening, but there's another reason to run for safety if you see this sucker turn the corner. Guess who's driving it? Hint: the answer is NSFH — not safe for highways.

Today, business-card cartoonist Hugh Macleod offers this tribute to the man likely to be his largest supplier of 2"x3" pieces of paper, the PodTech-fleeing Robert Scoble.

Hugh Macleod continues to explore the pollution of Mark Zuckerberg's $15 billion Valley wunderkind Facebook with his latest Web cartoon and blog post. But the expression "a picture is worth a thousand words" doesn't apply here.

Web cartoonist Hugh Macleod has fired a broadside against Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg. His retort to Zuckerberg's Law: "The minute the Facebooks of the world forget they are replaceable, is the minute people like me move in for The Kill."

Cartoonist Hugh MacLeod shares his contribution to the Facebook extravaganza — he isn't nearly as interested obsessed with Facebook as we are. Well, to each his own. Maybe we'll write less than 10 Facebook-related posts today — but I doubt it. (Ed's. note: Don't you have a post about Facebook to write?)

From cartoonist Hugh MacLeod, a concise explanation of why Apple CEO Steve Jobs keeps pushing his company deeper into the music business, and why rock star Bono has joined tech private-equity firm Elevation Partners.

"Believe it or not, some of us have better things to do than to be continually justifying ourselves to a crowd of passive-aggressive, self-loathing, loser fucktards." Web cartoonist Hugh MacLeod, explaining the coming drop in the number of bloggers.

Tonight: LeWeb3 host and blogueur Loic Le Meur and blogger-cartoonist Hugh MacLoud host a dinner at Foreign Cinema in San Francisco's Mission District. Warning: The event may already be overbooked. [Eventbrite]

NICK DOUGLAS — It's springtime for Hitler on the Internet as erupts (okay, continues as usual) in war. Let's run through who's been stomping on whom (MySpace on Photobucket, the rapaciously opinionated blogosphere on Kathy Sierra), and whether any of the aggressors have been brought to justice. (Hint: no.)

• Pictured: Blog cartoonist Hugh Macleod, somehow able to make fun of all his colleagues deftly enough that they link to him when he does it, this time mocked blogger Dave Winer for gushing about the "chicks" at the recent BlogHer conference. [Gaping Void]

Valleyspeak — the jargony language of Silicon Valley that no one ever asked for — sounds particularly silly when it's used for anything social. Just think of the way techies think about relationships — "friend list," "people aggregator," "instant-messaging buddies" — and it starts to sound like the way clinical autistics describe relationships. When typical social concepts aren't hard-coded into geeks' minds, they have to invent the language.

Like forest fires in Colorado and tornadoes in Kansas, Silicon Valley is always alert to the national disaster that could shake it to its foundations.

PaidContent.org founder Rafat Ali threw an NYC media party last night to celebrate his blog's first investment round. The "guys in nametags making pitches" reminded media pundit Jeff Jarvis of the bashes of the dot-com boom. The Gawker Media overlords were bouncing biz-dev people back and forth like Web 2.0 ping-pong. "All the hookups had the blandness of lesbian sex," said one attendee. "Nobody has any money, so there's no penetration."