For less than their price for pre-populated cookies, Tsue Chong of 801 S. King St. Seattle will place your fortunes (provided to them on 2½"x½" paper) in their cookies. It’s $5.50 per pound of cookies stuffed with your fortunes, $8.50 stuffed with theirs. A pound is about 60 cookies.
A mailing list I am on recently covered the topic of Wikipedia: is it an appropriate source for school research? While it can be incorrect (which is why it shouldn’t be your only source of information), it does cover some different ground than traditional encyclopedias. Britannica, for instance, seems to have no coverage of Hobo […]
Yes, you have been warned that it will not help your productivity, but you’re experimenting with RSS anyway. Did you know the Feds can add to your addiction? FDA Recalls, my man! If I could add Restaurant Closures, my day would be perfect.
I recently started tracking the addresses to which spammers are trying to send, and the number of addresses that have never existed in the domain, to which spam is being directed, surprises me. Most notable in this illustrious group (because I get why folks would try info, sales, admin, and the like) is johnsmithsvt. A […]
Apparently the best reason anybody has for not recognizing Pluto as a Kuiper Belt Object and not a major planet is "you’d upset the schoolchildren." This, as it is with conversion to the metric system, is an imaginary problem that will sort itself out within a generation (granted, with the metric system, you’ll probably have […]
Hey! Since when has there been a spy museum? It sounds so my speed that I’m astounded I haven’t heard about it until now. They also have a new book coming out in May called I Lie for a Living: the Greatest Spies of All Time.
According to Publisher’s Weekly, Warner Bros is making a movie out of Maurice Sendak’s Where the Wild Things Are, set to be directed by Spike Jonze and adapted for the screen by Jonze and Dave Eggers. It will be live action with lots of CGI. I think my head just exploded.
Once in a while, I wander through the web server logs, to see who’s a bot and who’s not, and whether the bots are well-behaved. I’m not all that strict—I don’t even have a robots.txt file (yet)—but I don’t like bots that suck all the pages down extremely quickly or display other anti-social tendencies. One […]
Following in the footsteps of that other famous "religion," the Roman Catholic church has decided to enforce copyright on its pronouncements. Next up, a fee schedule for the sacraments. Ooh, can’t afford Last Rites (I apparently mean Anointing of the Sick)? Bummer, dude.