Bibliophiles need to put their books down long enough to bathe.  Or listen to books on tape while in the tub.  Or buy books printed on water-proof paper.  Whatever it takes to keep their body odor from overwhelming the book sale's background scent of moldering paper and cheap espresso.  The sci-fi section was the worst.  I held my breath long ( Read more... )

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jonathan_Lee_Riches

Scroll down to the bottom for links to the actual court documents.  I'll excerpt my favorite bits later. 

Flawed and incomplete, but still pretty nifty:
http://www.joeydevilla.com/2007/09/22/simpsons-scenes-and-their-reference-movies/

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/08/14/science/14tier.html?_r=1&oref=slogin

This guy's idea is more similar to the plot of The Thirteenth Floor than that of  the Matrix. 

Mostly for Thomas, if he wasn't already aware of it:  http://www.bumbershoot.org/hemingway-challenge.htm

"I'd invite [like-minded people] to my home, and I'd treat them like any other person that was in my house. I did summertime barbecues, Thanksgiving. I did Christmas dinners. One year we did a turkey and a ham ( Read more... )

THIS is fucking metal.   

Yeah, this was taken on April Fools Day, but somehow I don't think he was kidding.

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Looks like I'm going to have to find a new homepage. Fuck Yahoo.
http://www.boingboing.net/2007/03/15/china_dissidents_wif.html

http://franklarosa.com/vinyl/default.jsp

This is mostly for Walker but others may find it amusing as well.