Given the number of items on this time-saver list that we already implement with some success, maybe there are other things we should consider. Having the kids pitch in caught my eye on Lifehacker.

Further information on salty licorice: some other names for it, such as salmiakki, leading to the discovery of more places to score salty licorice gum!

Seniors protest the bullying of a grade 9 student in cool and entertaining way. This is them in grade 9, baby.

Who’d have thought NCIS would have been on the right track?

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.