Go there now.
[via BWG]

Unpatriotic misinformation.
[via this cool new site: blogdex]

The lightbulb in my home office burned out this morning. I will replace it this evening when I get home from work.

In Understanding Media, Marshall McLuhan wrote “For the message of any medium or technology is the change of scale or pace or pattern it introduces into human affairs.” While it is perhaps almost tautological to state that with the progressive development of instantaneous, global transmission media, including the so-called “Instant Message” (IM) media, a tremendous change in the pattern of human affairs has been introduced, eliminating the necessity of physical proximity for the development of communities, it remains, nevertheless, crucial to observe that while these new media may greatly alter many facets of human discourse, most chicks still don’t like poop stories.

My cousin’s husband turned 60 recently, and I am really sorry I missed the party because his sister, who is blind, stood up at one point and made a “family is like a basket, tightly-interwoven” speech and all the other guests were either making faces like “barf” and “gag me” or were being totally shocked at the rudness of the former, depending on which branch of the family tree they came from. The tension was finally broken when her other brother got her in a headlock and made her sit back down.

“Unfortunately, my stepfather found his comfort sniffing running shoes.”
[Thanks to Sheila for pointing me at this article.]

We haven’t been posting search requests lately, but, wow.