Today someone brought this to my attention:


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At 11:38 pm on a Thursday night, my brother started randomly texting me quotes from 'It.' Not the lame ones, either:

I believe in Santa Claus. I believe in The Easter Bunny. I believe in the Tooth Fairy. But I dont believe in you. This is battery acid. And now you disappear.

I am very much a fan of the random awesome text.

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From this post in the New York Times' Happy Days blog about a month ago:

The Referendum is a phenomenon typical of (but not limited to) midlife, whereby people, increasingly aware of the finiteness of their time in the world, the limitations placed on them by their choices so far, and the narrowing options remaining to them, start judging their ( Read more... )

The 2009 Ig Nobel award winners have been announced. My favorite:

Peace Prize
Stephan Bolliger, Steffen Ross, Lars Oesterhelweg, Michael Thali and Beat Kneubuehl of the University of Bern, Switzerland, for determining - by experiment - whether it is better to be smashed over the head with a full bottle of beer or with an empty bottle.
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Here it is, ladies and gentlemen. The trailer for the most disasterific film of all time.

Click to view

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZW2qxFkcLM0

Thanks SirMildredPierce!

From today's entry in the New York Times' Lens blog:


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http://www.woai.com/news/local/story/Police-Last-words-by-would-be-robber-Let-s-get-it/f6MOt90elEK7zfk29k59Cw.cspx

The robbery suspect entered the Babcock Square Pharmacy around 9 a.m. at 5824 Babcock Rd ( Read more... )

From the Wikipedia article on Ōoka Tadasuke:

Ōoka Tadasuke (1677 - 1752) was a Japanese samurai in the service of the Tokugawa shogunate. [...] He was highly respected as an incorruptible judge and has taken on a legendary status in a number of stories about his wise and imaginatively unorthodox legal decisions.

One of the most famous stories ( Read more... )