From the sadness of the Internet’s tragic clown face.
- Carl Sagan is dead. There will never be another Carl Sagan, so stop saying there needs to be a new Carl Sagan.
- Some kooky children’s books e.g. “Mommy, Why is There a Server in the House?” “Never Smile at a Monkey” and “Joined at Birth: the Lives of Conjoined Twins.”
- Sherilyn Fenn discusses her aunt, Suzi Quatro.
- Awful Library Books is good fun.
- Snacks and Shit compiles bad hip-hop lyrics for your consumption.
- Angry People in Local Newspapers celebrates the work of community photojournalists.
- Samuel Arbesman proposes Fantasy Geopolitics for those bored with Fantasy Football. (Nation States is a good proxy for what he’s describing, btw.)
- A pingo here, a pingo there.
- A scientific finding that would warm Andrea Dworkin‘s cold dead heart: women are closer relatives to chimps than men. The science is settled, ladies. We’re talking inarguable consensus. Don’t hate the truth.
In case of disobedience they are at times deprived of their genitalia…
- Portland may not be as white as originally thought…somewhere in Sellwood, a white yuppie couple high fives each other and leafs excitedly through their “Obama: Election-Year Memories” scrapbook.
- Hey vegans: plants scream in pain too; we just can’t hear them.
- Cool white lizards evolving in New Mexico sand dunes.
