"Velociraptor whisperer."

Anybody know anything about stockholder activists Ray and John Chevedden? I can find almost nothing about them online except:

Bloomberg, on his Boeing proposal
Pendola, on his Netflix proposal
A mention in proxymonitor.org
A mention in a Motley Fool article about shareholder activitistsAnd umpteen zillion links to shareholder resolutions ( Read more... )

I was just pointed at (thanks metafilter) Conor Friedersdorf's annual journalism top 101 list. Mr. Friedersdorf has excellent taste. The lists is sort of the TEDTalk-equivalent of long-form creative nonfiction. I haven't begun to scratch the surface of this stupendous list, but I haven't found a lemon yet.

One of the nail-biting little wrinkles of applying for licensure as a mental health counselor in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, is that you have to send original copies of some hard-to-impossible to replace documentation ( Read more... )

Okay, so, there I was, walking to the T on the way home from work. I pass by an abandoned lot, where there've been a lot of sightings of feral kittens. I met a guy there once who was leaving food out for them. Sure enough, on a small flight of steps at the back of the lot, there are a bunch of five to seven rather-bigger-than-kittens-now cats. ( Read more... )

Really, the subject is self-explanatory. I was just astonished to receive a spam the subject line of which is one of my favorite lines from one of my favorite chunks of poem: "And surprise my soul once more."

So I present to you an excerpt of The Morning Song of "Senlin" by Conrad Aiken:It is morning, I awake from a bed of silence ( Read more... )

OK, I figure this is incredibly important information for someone other than me. If it's not already ripping through whatever is the appropriate community -- presumably there's a slash writing comm or two -- perhaps someone could get it on its way. "Want to see Mark Wahlberg and Christian Bale gettin' all hot and sweaty in a boxing ring? Can you ( Read more... )

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I don't suppose anyone knows where I can find a digital copy of the Calvin and Hobbes strip with the mass-murderer snowmen?