I was talking this weekend with the mother of a 17-year-old boy, and assured her that he was going to be useless until he turned 25. Turns out science knows why.
More Treasures from Brooklyn
Trade Cards! I love these. From the people who brought you the Brooklyn Eagle online and much more.
Krab Log is People!
Just because I really like the sound of (if not the sound of) Future Food Krab Log. I want to see what it looks like and know if we really will be eating it in the future. I imagine a orangey-pink fireplace log sized and shaped item. Which you can slice like baloney.
Links from the Cubefarm
Links from a regular reader:
“I bet they still gap at the back!”
and a consultant to tell you the obvious.
August Reading
In an effort to be positive this month, “Oooh! Look how much I read despite being easily distracted!”
Especially the Parking Lot
There were a lot of images on this site that made my take double. Nowhere is as russian as Russia.
Scrabble!
It’s a great dad story.
From the industry
By which I of course mean the business. Who’s doing what with that shortcode? Especially interesting to me is that the Pope’s thought of the day has (at least) two different shortcodes. Makes me wish I had noted what shortcode they used at the ballpark last night for voting on what song they should play later in the game.
competing quote of the day
“Most people want a world with simple black/white answers but you must realize that there are many shades of gray in between and this is the reality of spider identification.”
— Vetter and Antonelli, “How to Identify (or Misidentify) the Hobo Spider”
My favorite part is the twist at the end!
Isle of the Dead Review
Isle of the Dead, Zelazny. Yes. I’ve been afraid lately to re-read some of the favorites of my youth, fearing my increasing crankiness will render them unreadable. Isle of the Dead is one of the most idiosyncratic works Zelazny published, but I don’t hate it. It was written in 1969, and it shows its age, but the man was a great writer, and his penchant for writing works such as this one, This Immortal, and He Who Shapes does not obscure his gift. Now I’m wondering why I don’t want to put Lord of Light in the same category. Maybe I’ll read it again and find out.