Seed Packet Art, art clocks, and The Matrix’s art department.

Nifty Chinese advertising posters, huffah!

The David Nelsons of the world have been shafted by TSA’s secret list. This is pretty much what people said would happen, with a secret listing that you can’t appeal saying who can fly and who gets extra special searching (with complimentary disapproving looks). There is a number you can call (866-289-9673) to see if you’re on a list, or to complain (who knows how much good it’ll do, but you may as well call to let them know that we care.)

LAPL REVEALS! collection of Tabloid photos, 30s-60s!

Additional Note: I swear we gotta make Mrs Melba Karnes, cult member, the mascot of this blog.

According to YM magazine, Alyson Hannigan is planning her wedding to Alexis Denisof. D’oh. And here I thought I had a chance.

Memoryhole seems to look interesting- I’ll take a browse sometime. It chronicles the bendings of truth that may happen in journalism.

A list of libraries with free Wi-Fi access, I hope soon to be more complete!

She got out of the journal biz a while ago, but Ali Davis’s True Porn Clerk Stories still makes entertaining reading (and at least until This American Life reruns the show featuring her, it’s not overwhelmed with traffic).

I wonder if there are any video stores out there that don’t keep rental histories. As with library materials, there’s no reason to keep track of what’s no longer pending, so having the history serves no good purpose.

I just finished reading the quite excellent book Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers by Mary Roach. It’s well written, well researched, funny, and best of all has lots of disgusting detail. My favorite kind of book. Go read it today.

I think I may dip into this account of medical school next.