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Thanks to my sister Laura for sending me The Onion’s article about Mead’s new Grad-School-Ruled Notebook, an innovation that squeezes even more lines on the page.
On a more serious note (no pun intended): I really wish I had stuck with taking lecture and discussion notes using pen and paper rather than going digital (laptop, handheld) […]

This sign is taped to a tree up the street from our apartment. It says, “Let no child remain uncircumcised,” or literally, “Let no uncircumcised child remain.” The number is a mobile phone number.Leaving aside that the sign doesn’t specify male children, it also doesn’t say that circumcision services are actually being offered. […]

My friend Dave sent me a clip of Paul Reubens’ big acting break on Turkish Star Trek that has since been taken down from YouTube.  It was pretty good, but I’ve seen Turkish Star Trek enough to know that splicing in Reubens doesn’t make it any more ridiculous (see below).
Of course Turkish Star Trek is […]

Here’s the desktop image from the Turkish version of Windows.  This has made the rounds, but it still makes me chuckle.  [full-size image opens in new window]

I sent an email to a well-known sociologist last night and got a fascinating auto-reply vacation message:
“This is a vacation message to tell you that I will not look at what you’ve written for days and days.  You might be jealous that you are working and I am off at the tropical island paradise of […]

I’m from Iowa, so I perked up when I saw this headline about alternative energy in the latest Pew Research Center newsletter.  Here’s the gist:
The proposed project, known as the Iowa Stored Energy Park (IESP), will use low-cost, off-peak electricity — and wind energy that is not being sold on the grid at that time […]

While I was waiting in line at the post office today a middle-aged woman behind me commented on the wall-mounted TV tuned to CNN:
“Why is there a TV in the post office?  I just came from the bank and there was one there, too.”
“That’s crazy.  I’m tempted to get one of those remotes that turns […]