What's Foretelling the End of the World Today?

It's a coded back-and-forth concerning potsmoking. On Twitter. Between Snoop Dogg and Paulo Coelho. Double-take!

What Does Your Bookmark Bar Say About You?

I just noticed that I have two items under my "Misc." tab: Mass hours and liquor store hours. There's a post-doc dissertation right there.

North Korea Is Gay and Has No Friends

What, it's true! I'm not just being mean (I save that for Philadelphia). Besides, North Korea just winked at me on match.com.

Ew - gonna block yo ass, lil' Kim.

Philly Sucks

Here's reason number a bijillion why Philly is Camden's lamer next-door-neighbor: they wanna make you pay $300 for the privilege of blogging. Hey Philly: how about I give you nothing, trash you at every turn, root for the other team, and get outta here? Sounds like a better plan to me.

UPDATE: Money quote in the video segment from Colin Flatt, blogger: "I think what we really need to worry about here is the use of common sense and discretion, and these are two traits that we don't always see when it involves Philadelphia and the infrastructure here." You said it, brother.

Let's Just Set the Record Straight Right Now

Wikipedia actually has an entry called "common misconceptions." Whoa, nelly - this'll be one long article.

Via TDW.

Online Segregation

Here's a fascinating article on segregation in social networking, viz., Facebook is for whites, MySpace is for blacks. This shit just goes everywhere with us, doesn't it....

It's Like Drudge for Smart People

Check out againstdumb.com. I don't like that there's no "about" info, though. Who's behind the site? Is it the Moonies?

Regardless. Here are some headlines you probably won't see in mainstream news sources:

"Constitutional compromise and slavery"

"Tom Stoppard bemoans loss of printed word in favor of moving image"

"Ancient Greek mystery cults"

"The World That Never Was: A history of anarchists"

"Vienna, site of spy trade, no stranger to cloak-and-dagger work"

"Ian Buruma on Christopher Hitchens's memoir (and narcissim)"

"Wyatt Mason on the challenges and rewards David Foster Wallace offers his readers"

"A brief history of air conditioning"

Hello, my afternoon. Nice to meet you.

HT: Frum, via Andrew Sullivan.

"Wild Asian Ass"

14 across, six letters. It's "onager." Why, what were you thinking?

Update: According to this site, "[t]he Asian wild ass is the most horselike of all the species of ass." Geez, poor onagers. It must suck to be the Ann Coulter of the animal kingdom. (Ka-ching!)

Update: How come no one has stated that looking up a word on the internet when trying to solve a crossword puzzle is, um, cheating?