It turns out that there are fashion trends among ultra orthodox Jewish women who wear wigs. Who knew?

Check out this fun parody by a fellow LJer. Now, where can I get a Colgate Smile of Great Brightness?

Check out this amusing and well written article on straight men who love cats and the women who love them.

Awwww!

A good friend has started a fabulous literary web site which includes a blog, essays, book reviews, all sorts of great things. Please go visit Fiction Writers Review.

The latest essay posted on the site is about a forty year old book called The Irrelevant English Teacher by J. Mitchell Morse ( Read more... )

This wonderful piece by Armenian-American poet Andrei Codrescu on NPR is the best thing I've heard so far on the "bail-out." You can read the transcript but I encourage you to listen (there's a link on the web page) so you get the full impact of his wry style.

Maybe we need poets in government.

Remember when they actually turned off the National Debt Clock near Times Square a few years ago because we had a surplus?

Well, it just ran out of digits!

Vote with your wallet on November 4th!

Some people from the Copenhagen Parks Service came to New York for a tour of our parks. Guess which one they liked best?

Brooklyn is in da house!

The fabulous Onion has published another of it's historical documents. Be careful, don't let the kids go to the opera, it's a bad influence!

I don't usually use this space for political statements, but as a writer I could not resist this.

via Bookbench

I remember in the 1980s when thousands of typesetters started to lose their jobs. The smart ones learned how to use computers and desktop publishing software, for some it was a steep learning curve.

Here's a really cool video from 1947 on how books used to be made:

You can watch this video on www.livejournal.com

Printing a Book, Old School from Armin Vit on Vimeo.