Batman and Bacardi logos:

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Googling for something else, I found this. It's like something out of a Monty Python skit, yet sadder and scarier. (I was particularly interested in why handwriting analysis was grouped with witchcraft.)

Ways In Which She Could Have Blinded Me With Science, including, "She exposed me to excessive ultraviolet radiation, which gave me terrible cataracts." At the bottom, there's also "Four Ways in Which My Life Is Just Like Pac-Man's ( Read more... )

Slate suggests that CSI might be the most fanfic-generative show on TV.

Say wha?

I understand the need for a hook for a story, and I have no beef with anyone who does write and/or read CSI fic, but that's just annoying ignorance. (OK, when I checked on ff.net, CSI was a lot closer to the top of the list than I thought it would be, but even ( Read more... )

New state motto: Kansas: As Big as You Think. No, seriously.

Daniel Handler channels sisabet:

( Handler's contribution to Slate's Year in Culture )

A whale, singing for another of its kind since 1992, unanswered.

How's that for a souvenir from Vatican City?

Are priests supposed to be pinups?

[ETA: Apparently these are models and the photographer is looking for priests for the next edition. Good luck with that.]

A really interesting article by an author who found his words and ideas incorporated into a Broadway play, and began to see that they weren't necessarily "his" words at all.

So apparently Little Egg Harbor Intermediate School in NJ was strafed by a fighter jet from the DC Air National Guard the other night. (Oops.) The Washington Post kindly ran an item wondering "how tough a school has to be before the hall monitors call in air support." It suggested new PTA bumper stickers ( Read more... )