Yes, you can laugh at dated 70’s Ozark tourism, or you can gape in awe at its present day splendor!

If Weird Al‘s math is right, on Ted’s 1275" tv, Robert De Niro’s mole would be only about six feet wide.

Hey, look! A portable office, only 1.5 Tatami! From the people that brought you a slightly larger portable room.

No Free Lunch is a doctor-to-doctor campaign to reduce the influence of drug company representatives on their work. As far as I know, we don’t have any medical personnel in our readership, but if anyone wants to get rid of drug company pens, we sure could use some extra pens where I work.

As if we didn’t have enough to worry about, the next Yellowstone Supervolcano is 40,000 years overdue. Give or take. The last one left a crater within which Tokyo would fit, and the effects sound about the same as the dreaded nuclear winter.

Way back in 1899 (revised 1903), John Cotton Dana wrote in A Library Primer (now available online!):

I think I had heard of Notes and Queries before I read Not Even Wrong, but reading that at least reminded me to look and YES!! There is an online archive of issues of N&Q from 1849-1869 online. N&Q is a newslettery repository of the research interests and results of the Victorian research nerd. The […]

Drive a company into the ground (well, okay, mortgage its future for short-term stock price gain)? Get named President of another one. Bring along an exec who is later jailed for illegally arranging employment for a government official? Take over as Chairman and CEO. Have consensual, extra-marital sex with an opposite sex executive, though, and […]

I’ve been watching Wonderfalls lately. I missed it in its run because I didn’t have access to a Fox station, but bought the DVDs on faith in Tim Minear (near as I can tell so far, Tim got called in to tune up Bryan Fuller and Todd Holland’s idea). I got to wondering about which […]

Google, in an attempt to further enhance the accessibility and useability of all information, has introduced the movie: keyword. My first test gave mixed results. The results page told me that "What a dump" was said by Bette Davis, but not that she said it in Beyond the Forest, despite the search beyond.the.forest what.a.dump demonstrating […]