Not just dumber and less successful, but shorter than if I’d been an earlier child. Sigh.

The Onion A/V Club interviews Seth Green.

Watching Miss Potter last night, I had a geek “that’s not right!” moment: while a young Beatrix Potter is telling the story of the Two Bad Mice she says that the food in the doll house was porcelain. I said “but wasn’t it a plaster ham?” Upon checking today, yes, it was indeed a plaster ham.

Also, Beatrix wasn’t the overly delicate little girl decrying her brother’s collection of pinned moths: she and her brother skinned various animals to see their muscle and bone structure. Apparently, she also studied fungi in later life. Cool.

Largely self-reported (I didn’t have to prove that I could produce a map of the ancient world within a few seconds), but I’m a bit of a nerd:

The Financial Industry Regulatory Authority has launched a free market data service. I don’t see anything compellingly different from what’s available at Yahoo! finance, but that’s probably because I have all the Yahoo! ads blocked.

An article on the 311 operators in San Francisco: it’s a single phone number for questions about all city services. And SF seems to have a lot of city services. I was thinking it would be even more useful in my area, where there are overlapping city, county, and state jurisdictions for similar services. But if there was more than one jurisdiction, how ever would one fund it?

Many of the questions seem very familiar from library work.

“including… what would happen if Captain Jack met Captain Reynolds.”

I’ll be in my bunk.

I’m not reading the whole article yet, but some Torchwood writers (including the actor who played Mickey the idiot) attended Comic-Con this year and talked about stuff, including (according to Whedonesque) what would happen if Captain Jack met Captain Reynolds.
Two items I did note: Torchwood starts this weekend on BBC America, and Russell Davies was not mentioned among the first set of named SDCC attendees.
I’ll read the whole article after I’ve seen some Torchwood.

I was quite fascinated by the assortment, cheapness, and eclecticity of the items sold by DealExtreme. My only guess is that it’s the output from a particular industrial city in China.

Some highlights:
Digital Buddhist Jukebox in Tibetan (5 Songs) $4
The Poking Man Pen Stand $8.72
Piggy USB 2.0 Multi-Memory Card Reader $5.74
Islamic Qibla Al-KAAB Compass $3.81
Sitting Pose Corrector and Reminder Alarm $8.43
Electronic Breast Enhancer and Massager $13.01
USB Heated Gloves Set $9.44

Today’s title of the day is Cheetah Math: Learning About Division from Baby Cheetahs. Since, of course, cheetahs are the undisputed division kings of the jungle.