The Times is behind the…
July 31, 2008
New York Times is still covering the Writers' Strike on the front page
Spotted today at newyorktimes.com: prominent coverage of the Hollywood Writers’ Strike… over five months after it finished. I’m glad that the NYT can tell me how the strike will affect my favourite shows!
She’s really swell
July 30, 2008
Are you Popular? The Family Life Institute of the University of Oklahoma tells it like it is to the youth of 1947. Their hot tips? Be clean, polite, and give a girl plenty of notice before a date so she has time to do her hair and nails.
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It came from a zoo in a distant galaxy…
July 30, 2008
At the height of UFO hysteria then sweeping the nation, two young barbers and a butcher took a dead monkey in 1953, lopped off its tail and applied a liberal dose of hair remover and some green coloring to the carcass.
Then they left the primate on an isolated road north of Atlanta in the pre-dawn hours of July 8, 1953, burning a circle into the pavement with a blowtorch before a police officer came around the curve in his patrol car.
Where to eat
July 30, 2008
Out-of-context eating. Extends the “is it ok to eat on public transport” debate into other areas; the post itself is hilarious, but the really cringe-worthy stuff comes in the comments, starting with this one: “I once saw someone open a microwave popcorn bag for their child during Mass.”
This tenuously comes under the category of inappropriate eating/feeding: a woman breastfeeding her baby in a lecture at uni. She couldn’t have been five minutes late for the class?
More messing around with Wordle
July 1, 2008
I’m quickly discovering that Wordle is an excellent procrastination device. Here’s another one created with a West Wing script – this time the last episode of season 1, What Kind Of Day Has It Been.
