October 2009
September 2009
“The Apprentices: Fifty civilians are given prestigious, unpaid Post internships...”
– Reality Bites : CJR — Ideas for new Washington Post contests.
Working hard is overrated →
Agreed.
zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz.
(No, seriously, it’s a very good point)
courtneyanne:
John Prine: Angel from Montgomery
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For Emily.
Her birthday was Saturday, so in honor...
the 100 most frequently challenged books
imsickbutimpretty:
jamiek:
inthefade:
How many have you read?
Pick one and read it this week. Pick one and buy it for someone. Pick a children’s book off the list and read it to a kid (I’m going to buy How to Eat Fried Worms and Scary Stories for my nephew). Free people read freely.
1. Scary Stories (Series) by Alvin Schwartz 2. Daddy’s Roommate by Michael Willhoite 3. I Know Why the...
the 100 most frequently challenged books
inthefade:
How many have you read?
Pick one and read it this week. Pick one and buy it for someone. Pick a children’s book off the list and read it to a kid (I’m going to buy How to Eat Fried Worms and Scary Stories for my nephew). Free people read freely.
1. Scary Stories (Series) by Alvin Schwartz 2. Daddy’s Roommate by Michael Willhoite 3. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings by Maya Angelou ...
“Dear MR BAGGINS, Fellow Conspirator,
I am Thorin Oakenshield, descendant of...”
– Hobbit advance payment fraud letter
The Hobbit’s pitch as if it were a 419 scam. Brilliant. Why don’t I think of things like this?
Gadget Lab Hardware News and Reviews Microchip in... →
reagank:
Shawn Kelly, quoted in this article is my uncle, a researcher at MIT. I’ve been hearing about this project for years, and it’s really exciting to see it picked up by the national news and to see it this close to making a real difference!
This is truly very cool.
I'm seriously considering NaNoWriMo
I need to create more than I do.
Anyone want to lay odds on how long I’ll last?
The Of Mississippi Code
merlin:
Drunk on success, Author Dan Brown rewrites Absalom Absalom!
It begins:
Aging woman Rosa Coldfield was sitting in a room as hot as a Hotpoint oven that had been left on for a very long time even though nothing was cooking yet that anyone could sense or smell. She could almost taste the Southern aspects of the air that was full of air things like hot molecules and the paint chip things...
Houston Astros fire manager Cecil Cooper -... →
I’d be much more interested in a headline that read: Pittsburgh Pirates kill every member of their team and all relatives, to the seventh generation.
“Man, there is a lot of people there.
I have come here today to die, not make...”
– Op-Ed Contributor - Last Words - NYTimes.com
Some choice excerpts from an op-ed containing the last words of Texas inmates put to death.
“Yeah, it’s like a cow’s opinion. It just doesn’t matter. It’s moo.”
– (via outofstateplates)
I still say this. (via natface)
Outbreak! The Encyclopedia of Extraordinary Social... →
The Fortean Times article has some great excerpts covering an outbreak of feinting in a marching band in 1973 Alabama (a classic case of mass hysteria), an outbreak of cat-like meowing in India in 2004, the 1958 hula-hoop craze, a goblin scare that affect Zimbabwe in 2002, a ‘culture bound syndrome’ with the unusual name of the jumping Frenchmen of Maine from the 18th and 19th...
“Authorities have put out a statewide alert for a mentally ill killer who escaped...”
– Killer escapes on trip to county fair - Crime & courts- msnbc.com
He killed a woman, soaked her in gasoline to throw off the dogs and buried her in a flower bed. It’s hard to image he could become MORE unstable.
Umm, that picture was supposed to show up on Oct....
Which is my anniversary. Stupid Tumblr queue! It never publishes on the date I ask it to!
Anyway
Back to posting pictures I steal from Boing-Boing
More truth in the joke than I expected
Yesterday, when I posted this, it was entirely as a joke; I did have a physical Tuesday, but hadn’t heard from the doctor yet, and didn’t expect anything of note.
So I was wrong.
Got a call yesterday evening that my liver enzymes are all out of whack. Which is scary enough, but they were concerned enough to say that if I was a drinker, I needed to stop. As it happens, I haven’t...
“Bad grammar and spelling tripped up a man who was trying to steal Social...”
– The Associated Press: Police: W.Va. man impersonated gov to steal info
1) I love West Virginia stories.
2) “Hello, my name is Mr. Burns. I believe you have a letter for me.”
“Certainly, Mr. Burns. What’s your first name?”
“I don’t know.”
Execution Date Set for D.C. Sniper -... →
In October 2002, I’d just started as a cops and courts reporter at the Carroll County Times (warning: link will hurt the eyes of all Web designers) in Northern Maryland. I don’t know how many of you live/lived in the Baltimore/D.C. corridor, but it was mass hysteria for weeks. Even though we were 45 min to an hour away from where most shootings happened, people were terrified.
I...