Good Lord! A fascinating combination of shopping and snooping, Unclaimed Baggage. Conveniently located in Alabama.

Hilarious and horrible disease name of the day: Leaky Gut.

It’s mentioned in the title of a book on “invisible illnesses” so you know there will be many many hits on anything on the web containing the phrase. Not to cast aspersions on people with imaginary, erm, invisible illnesses. I’m sorry your gut leaks, but please ask a medical or information professional to help you find reliable information.

I’m going to regret putting this entry up, I know it.

PS Tuesday’s animal of the day: Sugar Gliders.

A librarian with a job on the side (are you surprised? Combine municipal employment and a female-dominated profession and you won’t be.) as a dominatrix apparently makes for a hilarious news item. My favorite comment: “Shahan, who worked for 25 years at the Western Washington University Library, took the Concrete job without telling the Upper Skagit Library District’s board of directors about her unusual predilections.” OK, which do you think would be more likely to keep you out of a job: being into leather or bringing it up in your interview?

Also, I have the sneaking suspicion that part of the hilarity is the idea that a librarian might have an interesting home life. Who’d a thunk it????

From the New York Times, October 29, 1852:
“A piece of romantic rascality lately transpired at Taylor’s Springs, Lauderdale County, Ala. About a year ago, a man calling himself Anderson, a gay and elegant Lothario in appearance and manners, located there as a school-teacher, and soon married a young lady of respectable family. Not long since, however, a gentleman and lady, from Baton Rouge, Louisiana, visited the place, and recognized in the handsome teacher and happy bridegroom, a man named Henderson, who had a wife and three children living at Baton Rouge. The intellectual and fascinating bigamist, that night, stole a neighbor’s horse, and sloped to parts unknown.”

All commas are from the original.

Wow, I don’t think I’ll be porting a huge number of text entries into a new format again anytime soon. But if you must port your blog, do it this week while watching I Love the 70s on VH1 (which also has a whole new look).

The Pest Risk Analysis group in the USDA has the best logo I’ve seen on any federal website. The Homeland Security guys should take a hint from those threatening-looking bugs.

Today’s book of the day is “Mammal Tracks & Signs: A Guide to North American Species” because the review features today’s phrase that pays: “scat photos.”

From an article in the Guardian: “The blast, which happened at the Marriott Hotel, was “very likely” to have been carried out by a suicide bomber, Jakarta governor Sutiyoso, who, like many Indonesians, goes by a single name, said.”

Yes, one of many sorts of nerdporn. Actually quite cool.