Today in Amazing: Photos from Chaiten

May 8, 2008

The photos here are fantastic, and the title is even better:

Tormenta eléctrica en erupción del volcán Chaitén

How can you not click on a hedline like that?


The Times On Steampunk

May 8, 2008

This is very nice, though I must also steer the compleatist reader to Nwk’s own steampunk piece from last October.


For Some Reason, I find this Completely Fascinating

May 8, 2008

And the Award for Best Shouts & Murmurs this Month Goes To…

May 6, 2008

Larry Doyle, for Bad Dog, which is pretty friggin’ funny.  Written from the perspective of a dog owner trying to set the record straight after his dog’s memoir has become a best-seller, it’s entirely great. A taste:

I’m not naïve. I knew the reviews might be bad, like that hatchet job in Dog Fancy. What I did not expect was to be sucker-punched by Oprah, or denounced from the floor of the U.S. Senate, or the mass crap-ins on my lawn. The price of truth, I guess.

I wrote “Tyrant Rex: His Life as My Dog” as a much needed corrective to “Speak: A Memoir,” and I stand behind my version, which costs three dollars less and contains many never-before-published candid photos of Rex.


In Which Dana Milbank Reports from the Twilight of the Bush Presidency

May 6, 2008

Dana Milbank, fine reporter turned fine columnist, has a telling bit from today’s Washington Post about the last days of W’s presidency.


Today in Cool: Streamzy

May 2, 2008

Kinda like a Napster for streaming music, Streamzy finds the songs you search for on the Web and streams them into your browser. It’s a pretty comprehensive engine that easily pulls up everything from Bach to Cut Copy to REO Speedwagon.


Sigh. Why Can’t Our Politicians be This Fun?

May 1, 2008

An Aussie politician admits to sniffing the chair of a female colleague.


Facebook in Real Life

May 1, 2008

This kinda steals Dave Chapelle’s skit about what a real-world Internet would be like, but it’s still good: A British comedy troupe does a real-world Facebook:


In Which the Wife of the Kansas City Mayor Brings Down the Funk

May 1, 2008

This, from the wife of the mayor of Kansas City, is the Best Christmas Letter in the History of Best Christmas Letters.

Also, their Website is Most Excellent.

AN UPDATE: Thanks to all for your comments. Yes, I know that we’re talking about Kansas City, Mo. here. I grew up 30 miles on the Kansas side from the city. I am familiar with State Line Road. I tagged this post ‘Kansas’ because, well, I talk about Kansas a lot on this blog and, as Grandpa Simpson would say, I’ll be cold and dead in the ground before I recognize Missouri.


Diary of a Supposed Black Woman

April 25, 2008

This, a long, thoughtful post by a woman on her life with a ‘black’ name, is more than a little interesting, and a great read.