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Love Ewe
My friend Al has launched a site for inflatable sheep. I sense a great disturbance in the Force.
Bags in trees
My new favorite blog: Bags in Trees. I found it because it links to my entry for witches’ knickers.
NWTF
So everybody knows about the woman who was told she couldn’t have a license plate with the letters “NWTF” on it. I read in many places that this is because that stands for “Now What the Fuck.” I dispute that NWTF is any kind of established initialism or acronym meaning “Now What the Fuck.” In…
Snakes on a Sudoku, the best movie tie-in ever
Congratulations to Francis on his new book, Snakes on a Sudoku. Awesome. The movie has passed from joke, to in-joke, to out-joke, to hypefest, to ho-hum hypefest, and back to joke, in-joke, etc., ad infinitum, and so on.
New York Dolls
“After seeing him on TV, Kane, who has appeared in several films himself as a non-speaking extra, drinks a quart of peppermint schnapps, beats his wife with cat furniture, and jumps out a third story window, shattering his kneecaps and elbow.”
Elise’s recipes
In an Internet full of cruddy cooking web sites overloaded with ugly advertising and ripped-off recipes, it’s refreshing to go to Elise and find a clean layout, friendly text, full credit given for recipes when they are borrowed, great pictures, and a good bunch of friendly commenters. Time and time again when googling for recipes…
Fightin’ Words
I meant to post this earlier. Chris Vaughn interviewed me while I was in Oxford, England, and wrote a nice article for The Fort Worth Star-Telegram about military slang and jargon.
Never go to a woo-woo type for word origins
This is the stupidest folk etymology I’ve seen in a while: The word “rune,” as far as I know, comes from the word “runner” where a runner would run with a rune stone four miles down the road, and then he’d give it to another runner, who’d run another four miles to another runner, who’d…
Interview at Number One Hit Song
Dana, one of those people I know through the Internet (I know: it’s weird that 15 or so years into the Internet Age—I date the Internet Age from when it became a popular tool, not from when it was invented—people still think you’re weird if you have friends or lovers you met on the Internet.…
Inuit Sign Language
Inuit Sign Language seems, plausibly, to be the newest language in North America. There’s a long article from 2005 in This Magazine about its relevance in a much-discussed legal case.