"The net is like a vast sea of lutefisk with tiny dinosaur brains embedded in it here and there. Any given spoonful will likely have an IQ of 1, but occasional spoonfuls may have an IQ more than six times that!"

- James 'Kibo' Parry
Happy Chanukkah, Everybody! Try the latkes, they're the best in the city.

I never actually mentioned it here, but chite won her competition! (With all your help, of course.)

Her triumph in the final three looked something like this at the end:
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I noticed the other day that Tiger Woods is now promoting a new Gatorade product, "Gatorade Tiger". It comes in three flavors, "Red Drive", "Green Fusion", and the purple flavor - "Quiet Storm ( Read more... )

I'd been wondering if I was ever going to see a style-guide appropriate spelling for this word ( Read more... )

Sometimes, the paper just gets it right. This is from today's Newsday, with games between the Mets and Yankees starting tonight:


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Bringing back an oldie, but a goodie:

The temperature of Heaven can be rather accurately computed from available data. Our authority is Isaiah 30:26, "Moreover, the light of the Moon shall be as the light of the Sun and the light of the Sun shall be sevenfold, as the light of seven days." Thus Heaven receives from the Moon as much radiation as we ( Read more... )

roughagy (/ɹʌfəgi/): noun. A likeness of a person that is composed of vegetables, esp. the types of vegetables that are used in salad.

From Gothamist:


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