( It's a West Wing post. Sort of )

Apparently, Wall Street will be going to hell in a handbasket when the stock market opens a couple of hours from now. Start stuffing cash under your mattresses?

http://gawker.com/5030531/dead-monster-washes-ashore-in-montauk
http://gawker.com/5031189/montauk-monster-update

???

I can't stop staring at it.

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/07/27/arts/design/27ouro.htmlRead more... )

Gacked from sparkly_stuff because I'm so out of the loop:

BREAKING NEWS: Dumbledore was gay, in love with Grindelwald.

No, seriously.To Alex and LeeAnn and whoever else who've been making "Dumbledore molests little boys" jokes since 2003: holy shit, you were right. o.O ( Read more... )

http://digg.com/business_finance/Wasting_time_at_work_You_re_not_aloneRead more... )

Shit, the Harry Potter leak is real. I'm sad now.

People started receiving copies of "Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows" on Tuesday, but the number of copies shipped only made up "around one one-hundredth of one percent" of the 12 million copies due to go on sale, Scholastic said.Dude, that's still 1200 copies. All a leak needs is ONE copy ( Read more... )

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/19390791/site/newsweek/Read more... )

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/02/21/education/21wikipedia.html

Why is this news? A college history department allowing Wikipedia (or any encyclopedia) to be cited as a source, that would be news.

Explain this to me.What I want to know is, how the hell did he get all (or even most) of his AP credits to count towards a degree? No AP subject goes beyond the very first (occasionally second), most basic intro class in whatever major, especially for math/science (which is where I assume his double major came from). And aren't math/science at ( Read more... )