But in our actual our world, this page is just a sad/funny satire. I mean compare today’s actual news.google page. [thx to the laughing squid]

We just saw a piece on the news about Jeff Deck, a guy who’s traveling around the country correcting misspellings, including misplaced apostrophes, in storefront signs. His route is plotted on the Typo Eradication Action League site.
Here’s his post from New Orleans; he’s in LA right now!
I’m glad someone took up the challenge to […]

Hooray! Robot-using dogs! [thx Laughing Squid]

At the nexus of history geeks, graphics geeks and politico-geeks there are things like these HistoryShots’ posters, “History of the [American] Political Parties I and II”. Fascinating. Whiggy. See them at historyshots.com.

You know who you are:
• Harvard Scientists Build a Device to Smoke Weed During Brain Scan
• The inked Canadian idiot laptop thief gets LOLed. Check it out.
• The illusion of blogger anonymity: A federally-funded artificial intelligence lab is figuring out how to track people over the Internet, based on how they write.
• Several Dem answers […]

the web practicing a little creative procrastination, I ran into these thoughts on the subject at Powazek. Today, I split my procrastinating time between noodling a re-design for CaliforniaAuthors.com, fooling around with the LibraryThing, exploring the vagaries of Google AdSense and learning to work with my bitchin’ new macro lens. None of that was on […]

was Yeknom and I used to like snuggle with him wedged in the “way back” of my mom’s VW Bug. This photoset of handmade sock monkeys took me back. (thx boing boing)

predicts solstices

A nice National Public Radio piece on the joy of city chickens by California author Susan Straight.

Really nice work and more every day. And, the beautiful A Painting A Day.

Seeking Rare Dyes in a Kabul Bazaar from National Public Radio and Color: A Natural History of the Palette.