I could use this space to write about what's on my mind. But I don't want to bitch.

I don't want to bitch about how the Yankees, despite being 81-49 and a satisfying 4 ½ games atop the AL East, have had their starters win exactly one game in their last 15. The remaining schedule is littered with garbage (Orioles, Devil Rays, Royals and Blue Jays), but we can't be calling on Quan-Gord-Mo every damn night just to stay in slugfests. Someone's gotta go out there and deal.

I don't want to bitch about how Hurricane Frances is threatening my trip to the Bahamas on Wednesday. Welcome to Freeport. The local temperature is 91, with winds out of the southeast at 135 mph.

I don't want to bitch about how I just realized that the eight tickets I have to Sox-Yanks on Friday, Sept. 17 conflicts with the Harpoontang live CD recording at American Trash. (Translation: I'll sell 'em for $400 and attend Sunday's game only.)

I don't want to bitch about how scattered thunderstorms threaten the TIME vs. New York Times softball championship I'll be playing in Tuesday. Also known as The Annual Drunkest Night of the Year.

So, I'll throw out some links to photos that caught my eye this weekend.

• I have some shots of the Manhattan skyline and other Hudson River views that I snapped last week aboard The Temptress (owned by Marco Polo Cruises), which comfortably held 360 revelers on the MurphGuide.com 2004 Summer Cruise. One of my goals is to frame a huge collage of NYC shots, and some of these will make the cut.

• Upper West Side neighbor Stephanie Klein's pictures from Venice are terrific. You can also review the pictures I took there in May. I spent just one full day there and enjoyed it more as the day moved along and the ton of group tours moved out. At night, the narrow and dark alleys equally charmed and scared the shit out of me.

• Fotki.com runs some interesting photo contests, including the current one for tattoos. No doubt the best of the bunch is from Gleny.com, a New Jerseyite doing what he does best, smiling broadly in front of a hot ass. Previous contests included Your Best Shot Ever, Winter and Self Portraits.

• A gallery of Britney Spears playing beach volleyball in a bikini. These shots appear to be a year old, as the copyright says 2003 and she doesn't have an ass the size of Dom Deluise. Speaking of 2003 and great bodies, here's a portfolio of the Miss Reef contest in Chile accompanied inexplicably by a cheesy MIDI rendition of We Are the Champions. Online T&A and embedded audio just don't go together. C'mon, people, we all must be one in this.

• Body-painting at Fantasy Fest is a always popular with the shutterbugs. Be careful if you're surfing from work or if you're Catholic. You could get fired or go to hell. Neither is as bad as being a Mets fan these days, but still.

Today's Web Finds:

• MTV Video Music Awards Top-10 Lists — The annual awards show was held Sunday night, not that anyone cared. Anyway, MTV.com has a number of flipbooks recounting the top 10 VMA surprises, performances, uncomfortable moments, etc. Let's hear it for small, grainy screengrabs from a entertainment media empire! My favorite moment was when Madonna kissed both Britney and Christina, and all anyone wanted to talk about was the kiss with Britney. No one even cared that Christina was in the room.

• BrowardHotSpots.com for Sale — The South Floridians are closing up shop, depriving us of weekly bikini contest photos and assorted party shots. Thanks for the mammaries, Alex. The minimum bid is $40,000 on eBay.

• Learn Blackjack Strategy While You Play — You can limit the house advantage if you know what you're doing. This quick and easy game tells you when you've made a bad hit, stick, double or split. Definitely a good warm-up before you hit the casinos, which I will be doing in two days unless the Bahamas are under water.

• Learning Movable Type — A self-described "growing set of tutorials, presented in blog format, aimed at helping beginners to the Movable Type (MT) content management system. These tutorials are geared for those with a good understanding of HTML, a fair understanding of CSS, but who are not necessarily programmers or web designers." Movable Type is what PK.com is run on, by the way.