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.

My favorite quote from this story about the discovery of a new particle is from Marcello Giorgi, from the University of Pisa, Italy, who leads the BaBar collaboration:

“We have discovered a new charm particle in an experiment designed to probe the difference between matter and antimatter using bottom quarks.”

I’ll just nod sagely. As usual, though, I love science stories that mention antimatter.

There’s a page with the Big Mac Index listed all the time. It does a good job with the currency variations, but not so good a job with the Big Mac price variations.

About 30 copies of a single two page resume ended up in the recycle bin today. Along with a string of past jobs involving food service (some for as little as 3 months) and jobs that have the distinct flavor of charity, are some gems that are sure to get this resume noticed:

VOLUNTEER Penile Mission – Seattle, WA

and

EMPLOYMENT

The Economist has released its annual Big Mac Index, which is a surprisingly reliable indicator of currency under- or over-valuation for having such high entertainment value.

The Soda Pop Stop stocks a staggering array of soda, and even includes an ingredient list.