Interesting post on the geographic distribution in the decline of violent crime in the US. Needs more crunchy statistical analysis, but it does look like the urban-rural divide is relevant.

Because there's no such thing as climate change.So glad I have chorus practice on Monday so I won't be tempted to watch the first debate ( Read more... )

This week could not have only been 7 days long. It felt like forty. Two ER visits, scrambling to line up care, administrative bullshit. (Don't fall at 88, people. Just don't.) (He's ok, but he has a hairline fracture in his wrist and a concussion.) Plus getting just ridiculously behind at work as a result, with attendant scatterbrainedness ( Read more... )

thank God that bookstore's gone-now we can buy handbags. The Commuty Bookstore in Brooklyn is closing. Fabulous guy.

Interesting photo essay on women's fashion: Who created the bodycon dress.

I haven't read any Sylvia Townsend Warner, except maybe I read Kingdoms of Elfin once many years ago? Anyway, this looks entertaining. I'm not sold by ( Read more... )

Oh, hey, why have I never seen this site before? The Fresh Loaf, for all your bread-baking neepery. (Via MeFi)

Amy Davidson on why the conservatives calling Obergefell the new Dred Scott are so wrong.

I think it would be fun to have a fic challenge that involves using the titles of these unreported Holmes & Watson cases. Seriously, how fun would ( Read more... )

Narnia fans might enjoy a tiny Puddleglum story by Ursula Vernon, set after TLB, and found over on Making Light.

And oh, oh! This was followed up by a tiny post-novel bit about Digger the Wombat, from Digger, in response to a question about whether Digger of Unnecessarily Complicated Tunnels would be able to find a job when she eventually got ( Read more... )

Got a bike? Don't get too attached to it.

Fascinating article about plant crime. Although it makes sense: people get obsessed with the widest variety of things, and the urge to steal a rare plant comes from the same place as the urge to bring a camera into a movie screening, I suspect.

Also interesting: this article on cruise ship foodIf you're ( Read more... )

This is adorable.

Some stuff I didn't know about DuckDuckGo.

The New Yorker profiles Anonymous.

How to spot an ATM skimmer.

Saved for later viewing: Mallory Ortberg reading male novelist jokes.

I feel conflicted about this article. Hmm. Too much about the heroic archaeologists, not enough about the tribe's concerns (or the difficulties of ( Read more... )

So I have an interview with [unnamed local government agency] tomorrow. I actually studied up for it, because it's been some years since I dealt with the specific state laws that would apply there. And, more importantly, I tried on my suit and made sure it fit properly and went with my pewter heels. So at least I will look presentable ( Read more... )

In case you missed it, Allie Brosh of Hyperbole and a Half was on Fresh Air last night. (Trigger warning for discussion of suicide and depression.)

I didn't think it needed saying, but apparently it does: don't bring your parents to work.

The chart of seasonal pies.

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Noted for later reading: Why I made terrible decisions, or, poverty thoughts ( Read more... )

Watch this time-lapsed video of the righting of the shipwrecked cruise ship in Italy.

io9 has an excerpt about the making of Time Bandits. I had no idea it was so dramatic!

As many of you know, and others will come to learn, daughters in this society are on the hook for parental care.

Marked for later:
The dark side of Peter Pan.

The ( Read more... )