After that big tease about a cartoon, here's a random New Yorker cartoon, for real.

Sweet, isn't it? And if you refresh this page, you'll get a different one. Go ahead, try it. It will help drive my hits through the ceiling.

If you'd like to play along, here's how it works: Insert the following IMG tag in your home page and voilà.

<IMG src="http://www.newyorker.com/cgi-bin/random_image.cgi/images/cartoons/random_cartoons.txt" border=0>

A word of caution: Condé Nast might not like this and may well be coming after me for doing it. They'll probably flaunt one of those no-linking policies that are all the rage now.