Scavenged off an entry on prufrock's friends page ( Read more... )

I'm listening to the audiobook version of "Spook" by Mary Roach (best known for her previous book, "Stiff"). It starts slow (the entire first disc is a vaguely ethnocentric look at Hindu reincarnation beliefs), and the woman who reads the text is smarmy as hell, but Disc 2 is an interesting hodgepodge of stuff about echinoderm sex and Le Petomane ( Read more... )

I finally got around to submitting a heavily revised version of that Criswell-Pat Robertson thing to McSweeney's, but they didn't go for it. I choose to assume that this was because it's overlong, not because it's underfunny. Anyway, since I took the time to revise it, and since it was originally on this page anyway, I'll just go ahead and inflict ( Read more... )

Ten-year-old saves 100 people by paying attention in geography class:

http://ngsednet.org/community/resources_view.cfm?community_id=6&resource_id=793

I would hope that this is worth a couple of extra credit points on her next assignment.

Oh, you have got to be kidding me:

http://arshermeneutica.org/besieged/Legislating_the_Vaue_of_Pi

...although I'm pleased, and a bit surprised, to see that it wasn't a religious thing.

The $3.75 New Pioneer Co-op pumpkin cheesecake I just ate tasted virtually indistinguishable from the dollar-a-pint 'cheesecake' Jello salad stuff they sell at the Hy-Vee deli ( Read more... )

Great ideas so far. The annotated list thus far, for clarity ( Read more... )

Latest movie-themed Halloween costume idea: Composite Undead Killer. This will involve zombie makeup, possibly a hockey mask (worn up like a visor or dangling from my belt), and a custom T-shirt made with one of those do-it-yourself iron-on kits. The T-shirt will have the last shot from "Sleepaway Camp" on the front. On the back it'll say "World ( Read more... )

So are the rest of these guys ( Read more... )

The Chicago Tribune's front page teaser headline for their world-news-section article about Harold Pinter: "Bush critic wins literature Nobel."

'Cause, you know, criticize Bush is the main thing Pinter's done with his career and his life, and the main reason that he won the Nobel.