The CIA has abominable security if a blue teddy bear can con her way around (via Tom Tomorrow).
Sick, bleah. Hence, drinking herbal tea. Tea companies, like Doctor Bronner of castile soap fame, propagandize the captive audience. Celestial Seasonings has inspirational sayings on the box and the tea tag. Stash has them on …
Photo/Desired Message/Truth (via BoingBoing) continues what the two main problems with friendster which have not yet clearly been articulated started.
The Russians use one word-formation to say "I am a boring person" and a different word-formation to say "External events are boring me." The same goes for expressing the two things we might mean by …
Sarah, here's an interview with Ira Glass for you. O: Do you enjoy doing the live broadcasts? IG: No, I hate it, actually. It's the worst part of the job, next to the pledge drive. …
I have set the VCR to record two shows: Enterprise on Wednesdays and Arrested Development on Sundays. Will be bumming around friends' living rooms on Wednesdays to catch The West Wing, since my TV doesn't …
Visited Rachel Chalmers and her friends yesterday evening and had a lovely time. I got to ask three Australians both whether they are descended from convicts and about "Rabbit-Proof Fence." Evidently it's rather prestigious in …
For a while now I have meant to link to Paul Wright, most especially: "The Register is a tabloid, and as such they love to build things up, buttercup baby, just to knock them down." …
Telephone manners dictate that you speak clearly into the mouthpiece. This goes double if you suspect that the recipient will use a cell phone to listen to your message while waiting for you on a …
General Wesley Clark had his first IM chat (branded as a "Wireside Chat", argh) recently. You are free to peruse the various nonbad questions and answers, with many misspellings so you can tell it's really …
