The international symbols are now easily available from AIGA. No need to resort to alleged English-Hungarian phrase books.

I had no idea “Alan Smithee” had been retired as an official Directors’ Guild pseudonym.

Apparently we only now have data indicating opiates make your cough better. No kidding. It seems up to now they’ve been prescribing them “on a hunch.”

The common theme in these stories is an old one: we really seem to want something easier than eating reasonable quantities of appropriate food and getting plenty of exercise.

A very entertaining ukulele lesson with many useful tips.

Ukulele is the miracle music instrument . The ukulele sound won’t interrupt the talking of business or the whisper of lovers.

If you softly hold a baby or cat under your arms, usually some people will smile and say “How pretty this baby is! or How cute this cat is!” On the other hand, the ukulele will not make people so excited.

If your family and friends’ faces turn bitter, you don’t have to worry. If you are a poor player, just back up slowly and fade away.

I’m not the usual knitting-minded contributer at this blog, but I had to investigate this project: “Knitted breasts help new mothers”

The current episode of the Ken P. D. Snydecast contains a quite entertaining discussion of the menu (and staff) of the Musso and Frank Grill in Los Angeles. And indeed, as discussed, their menu is straight out of the fifties. The actual fifties, not the Happy Days fifties. Chiffonade salad! Imported sardine sandwich! Creamed spinach!

Joss will not be doing Wonder Woman.

The fine folks at Taquitos have commented on McCormick’s ’07 flavor forecast. That comment is “ew.”

Longtime listener, first time caller Elsa submits historical pictures of Wisconsin library students. For cute! My own library education involved fewer costumes.