esr has an interesting blog post about how he became a linguistic authority.

Piled Higher and Deeper Comics has Abstract MadLibs.

xkcd has a neat guide to the metric system.On January 31, 2009, at 1:00pm, Caesar and Cleopatra, starring Christopher Plummer and Nikki James, filmed at the Stratford Shakespeare Festival, will be in Cineplex Theatres ( Read more... )

I don't usually make New Year's Resolutions, but when I saw this meme that generates them for me, I thought it was pretty amusing.

In 2009, ( Read more... )

There are some people who think that our economy would get better if we changed our currency to a gold standard. Many libertarians and various people on the internet lament the loss of the gold standard as a basis for currency, and long for a return to the good old days ( Read more... )

Just after reading the alt text in this XKCD comic, (and perusing amusing comments in the LJ feed), I came across this passage in Doris Kearns Goodwin's book Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln:
"The next night, Seward and Lincoln shared the same room in a Worcester hotel. "We spent the greater part of the night talking," ( Read more... )

How to get women from all over the world to send you their panties:

Step 1: Lead an oppressive tyrannical regime.
Step 2: Indicate that you are afraid of panties, since touching them will drain you of power.

Surprisingly this works. Panties for Peace will tell you all about it. What an interesting political protest.

Merry Christmas everyone!

"To love successfully, is to love more today than yesterday. It is knowing that sometimes the most romantics words in the world are not, I love you, or sweet nothings, but, "Don’t worry about it, I’ll do it." For love, true love, is a partnership. It is two individuals who together make a bigger whole, and a better person together than they were ( Read more... )

Rest in peace Hugh Cook.

Canstruction is an event where teams of people make sculptures with cans of food, and those cans are later donated to the food bank. I have a friend who participated in it this year. Her team made a yellow excavator. There are photos at various places around the internet. I like the shark and the tooth and the skull and the watermelon and the ( Read more... )

Art Italo has some interesting articles about how to network and market yourself if you are a lawyer. The concepts, with some modification, are applicable to other fields too. His concept of "leveraged networking" seems to make a lot of sense. The basic idea is to develop relationships with people in complementary fields that are in contact ( Read more... )