An ad for coffee (from 1915) with enthusiasm bordering on the overstatement:

At home–en tour–wherever “White House” Coffee is in evidence–its charm lingers in the memory; commands delighted respect and enlists continued interest no other brand can possibly inspire. A veritable aristocrat among coffees, “White House” is an indispensable adjunct at every repast–; and its invigorating companionship banishes ennui like magic and helps to make life more worth while.

Mmmm, banishes ennui! That’s my kind of coffee!

Man finds chicken in egg, uses phrase “fixin’ to” twice in interview.

“American Greetings Corporation (NYSE: AM) is one of the world’s largest manufacturers of social expression products.”

Which is really just birthday cards and stuff, but it could be so much more… futuristic! Like a tablet to help you be appropriately sympathetic.

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!

There are a lot of works of art that I would like to be so elegantly crystallized, but for now, here’s Batman.

A very odd story of a guy who defected to North Korea because he was drunk and afraid, and spent decades in the same state in that same state until he was freed to work in a Japanese cookie shop.

(4/14: link fixed)

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.

My librarian sent me this review of math-related literary works some time ago. I’m putting it here so I don’t have to keep it in my inbox.