JibJab.com has reduced me to helpless laughter. See especially "Good to be in D.C." I especially liked the parody of the vice-presidential debate. (Linked to by a variety of people, but I somehow managed not to go there and watch the movies until now. Bwah!)
Dear women’s shoe industry as an aggregate, Perhaps you can explain something to me. When I look for new shoes, I nearly always come away empty-handed. My standard shoe-shopping experience goes something like this once I’ve located a pair of shoes and tried them on: – 85% of the time, they don’t fit my feet. […]
Today I helped someone track down information about a University of Virginia alumnus who came here in the 1850s and who was known by his middle name, which, of course, wasn’t listed in full in the University catalogues. But after much searching I found him nonetheless. By the time I was done answering that question, […]
The Science of Music: an exhibit from the Exploratorium. Covering such eternal questions as why everyone sings better in the shower, why your voice sounds freakishly weird on tape, and what makes a song become an earworm. Also, I spent an inordinate amount of time playing with the Dot Mixer. (Via the Scout Report.) The […]
Am not going to post at length on the first presidential debate. It’s past my bedtime already. Must catch up on sleep. However, I have to say that my good mood from watching Kerry mop the floor with Bush was perfectly capped off by watching the commentators on The Daily Show with Jon Stewart fling […]