Starting 1 January 2006, the IMEX catalog will be available only on the web.

From American National Biography Online’s biography of Ben Hecht:
“In 1910 he moved to Chicago and began working as a picture stealer (purloining victims’ pictures from family homes for use in the newspaper) and factotum for the Chicago Journal.”

The last Doctor Who spin-off doesn’t seem to have made it past the pilot (though we still love Sarah Jane and K-9), but Torchwood is heading a different direction altogether, and has a 13-episode series ordered.

James Bond’s employer, the Secret Intelligence Service (a/k/a MI6) has joined other formerly unacknowledged organizations in going public on the web. Their web tree structure interests me: on the one hand, having no hierarchy to your web site does make it easier to avoid giving anything away about your organization’s hierarchy; but if you’re going to go that far, why not just have entirely random page file names instead of "PageXX"?

Hey, is that the Doctor or the Second Coming?

It’s like the opposite of Chicken Soup for the Soul: OSHA’s true stories of teen tragedies.

“We wanted something that was real war – Smurfs losing arms, or a Smurf losing a head –but they said no.”

and more likely to make one respond to a fundraising letter: the University of Idaho president made it abundantly clear that evolution is the way to go.

My page-a-almost-every-day calendar of Chinese progaganda posters is this weekend featuring a poster of a girl washing her hands in front of a poster of a girl washing her hands, in front of a poster of a girl washing her hands…. Oh, the mind does boggle. It’s fairly entertaining how the background of these posters often feature other propaganda posters.

Australia’s Supreme Court, in a shocking show of reason, has ruled that it’s legal to play games you have legally acquired.