There’s so much to love about this story: A Chess champion, a flying penis, Russians, entertaining comments. It’s delightful.

Partly dyslexia, partly Scrabble, I think led to my noticing this clause in a BBC story about new Barry Bonds perjury indictments:

Making it into the record books as the man who had hit more home runs than anyone else in baseball history should have been the crowning achievement of Mr Bonds’ storied career

'cause, y&#39know, ‘storied’ anagrams to ‘steroid’. What with their being Brits and all, you know the writer did it on purpose.

“[Regulatory Agency] has not approved or disapproved of [product] or determined whether this [description] is accurate or complete. Anyone who tells you otherwise is committing a crime.”
(emphasis mine)

I don't know if this is really worth the ink, but it is at the intersection of a number of cultural hot spots: I bring you Lolcavore.
I think a reason I don’t like it more is that it misspells “ur”.

Until I saw this Serious eats article, I hadn’t really thought about how horribly calorific those Chipotle burritos are. Plenty of fiber, though.

This list of upcoming auditions came to my attention when it had descriptions of Dollhouse characters, but it’s really a narrow window into what’s going on in the world of talent.
Today, for instance, it’s possible to see a casting call for DOG SEES GOD: CONFESSIONS OF A TEENAGE BLOCKHEAD, a play I had not heard of. Probably not appearing at a church near you anytime soon.

I ran across danelope through a series of events that don’t really bear posting here, but it seems to be chock full o’ goodness. I owe the blogger a beer for the article about userContent.css alone. No more blank spots on the BBC News site where ads would go for me!

On a recent Delta flight (I believe we were on a B737-800), the seat-back entertainment system needed to be rebooted, so everybody on the plane got to watch the startup messages scroll by. It was a Linux system booting with Redboot, running on a single-processor system (to judge from the single Tux graphic on boot). I was entertained by the warning that the kernel was being tainted by non-GPL code.

Not content to tell you how to find out what has been claimed as a trademark, we’ll also point you at someone who’s paying way more attention than seems entirely called-for to new claims and posting his findings in Trademork.

Putting the band back together? Get your charts here.