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 […]

Says the New York Times:
From his detailed forecast of telecommunications satellites in 1945, more than a decade before the first orbital rocket flight, to his co-creation, with the director Stanley Kubrick, of the classic science fiction film “2001: A Space Odyssey,” Mr. Clarke was both prophet and promoter of the idea that humanity’s destiny lay […]

Here’s a little local news for our Rome-ward travelers: Romano Prodi resigns and the Italian government collapses. It’s news, still it has happened 61 times since WWII.

In local news, Reporters Without Borders unveiled their Rose Parade billboard yesterday in Pasadena. The board, bearing the message shown here, is on a street near the route of the famous pageant.
This is the first year China has participated in The Tournament of Roses parade and its entry is designed to hype the 2008 […]

A collection of blogging bits and pieces that I haven’t got around to posting, or things that fell out of this or that post — leftover, but still tasty.
Val makes a special Hidden Cheese Pizza where the oh-so-creamy Buffalo Mozzarella hides under the fresh tomato slices. This — and the perfect roasting of the red […]

Lee Bollinger, President of Columbia University, giving the most amazing speech I’ve seen on TV in many years as he introduces and actually indicts Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad . He opened with a really beautiful commentary about freedom of speech and the role of discourse in the search for truth and finished with a pretty […]

Grist points us to a Missouri recycler who is accepting wine corks! Yemm & Hart Green Materials is collecting corks for its prototype cork recycling program — and if the experiment proves successful — it will add wine cork recycling to its regular business. That’s great news for waste reduction in my foodie-home and it […]

we learned the fate of two boy-soldiers kidnapped in Iraq — their gruesome deaths only today’s iteration of the suffering and grief brought into the world by the Bush Administration’s misguided Iraq war — I remember this quote from His Holiness the Dalai Lama: “In my own experience, the period of greatest gain […]

on the watch of George W. Bush: Gitmo suicides, Marine lawyer calls Haditha `tragic’ but lawful, Hamandiya.