I’m going out of town for a while, so here’s some crappy old links (with no glittering commentary) that have piled up in my to post list, just to tide you over. Oooh, I’m so nice. Chicago Historical Society A salt of the earth test, the writings of Sir Thomas Browne Science Groove Charles Darwin […]
Building on Sarah’s post about signposts to bad SF and mine about Google Map play, here’s a Google Maps satellite image of the giant signpost to bad SF. Terraserver has a closer view. Best I can guess, maybe that’s a landing strip for aliens to the southwest of the marker.
Even better than just making maps available, Google made them easy to mix with other information, and lots of folks are doing just that.
The United States Conference of Catholic Bishops publishes movie reviews, rating films on this scale: A-I — general patronage; A-II — adults and adolescents; A-III — adults; L — limited adult audience, films whose problematic content many adults would find troubling. L replaces the previous classification, A-IV. A-IV — adults, with reservations (an A-IV classification […]
So we’re watching The Daily Show, and the guest is This American Life regular John Hodgeman, plugging his book, The Areas of My Expertise. I said “I really want to read that book.” My darling says, “Of course you do, he’s on This American Life. You like books by anyone on This American Life.” I […]
Upon being asked “why are Mexican wrestlers masked?” I was thrilled to find a quite detailed entry in Wikipedia (yay Wikipedia) on lucha libre.
If my lips can’t feel nothin’ Please know I still love you. If my lips can’t feel nothin’ Please know I still love you. I just met The Man at Dixie’s BBQ.
There are a whole lot of tower cranes near my workplace lately, including one that had a climbing frame. I never got to see the climbing frame in operation, so I had to poke around on the web and at my local library to get an explanation. One of the first hits I got was […]
Check me out! I’m inspiring art! A booktalk I gave was the inspiration for a Sunday strip of Unshelved! I highly recommend the book, and Junior High students are verrrrry interested in the most dangerous toy, that put 6,000 people into the emergency room before they finally banned it. Answer in invisi-text (highlight to see): […]