Moral: if you want me to link to you, don’t use spammer tactics. Story: I saw some mail today from someone purporting to represent an outfit called Victor House Publications. That mail looked something like this:
On of the postcards in the Lileks feature mentioned previously is Fjord’s Smorg-ette. Which of course reminds me of Roy’s Western Smorgy still operating in Richland, WA. With the help of modern research techniques, here are some other extant Smorgs: Sampan Chinese Smorgy (Stockton CA) Perry’s Smorgy Restaurant (2 locations in Honolulu HI) King’s Smorgi […]
Lileks hits the nail on the head (again): “But the pedestrian artifacts of yesterday take on extra meaning when the pedestrian artifacts of the present tend to suck.” This is from his new series on postcards from restaurants.
The blood bank called today to get me to schedule an appointment, and I told the woman that I wasn’t going to be giving blood for at least a while. She was disappointed, what with me being one donation short of my three-gallon pin (though somewhere in there I got credit for a donation that […]
The next version of iTunes will have direct support for podcasting. I know some portion of their desire to keep people using iTunes is so they can enforce their DRM scheme, but if their success rate in keeping users on their app remains high, I can’t help thinking how valuable an audience that creates. I […]
Not that I likely would have run off to the UK to see them, but I would have thought I would have heard that Queen are touring. I note with some optimism the "USA?" in Sep/Oct.
If any DVD release called for a theme party, this is it: ABC’s After School Specials!
I found the 2001 Futurama calendar, so I’m adding on to the Calendar Bonus Feature from previous: Growing Up in Tier 3000 by Felix C. Gotschalk The City and the Stars by Arthur C. Clarke The Anti-Death League by Kingsley Amis Kindred by Octavia Butler The Difference Engine by William Gibson and Bruce Sterling The […]
So I runs acrosst this mention of “Home Children” in Canada: more than 100,000 children sent to Canada during the Child Emigration Movement. I think, “Child Emigration Movement?” Sure enough, there’s a whole history of settling the colonies with orphan (or as orphan as they needed to be) children. Many of the children were sent […]
I’d like to think any number of folks on any side of any religious question would find the Bush fish troubling.