This one is familiar to every schoolkid, but it bears repeating. How many of our daily words of wisdom come from Lincoln? More than you’d think.

Bing’s translation are always a great big joke. I love it when they try the colloquial city Spanish of my 20something Mexican friends.

This time they’re on Twitter struggling with the little-known, gnomic tongue called “Arabic”:

Source: chris_coltrane on Twitter

My neighborhood eccentric is a middle-aged man, tanned and completely smooth, with very large prescription glasses. He is always on inline skates. His name is OC PHILLY PHIL.

He has made many, many videos. Almost all of them show him skating. He used to post musical ones that were all the same, with the lyrics “LOVE IS REAL LOVE IS BEAUTIFUL.”

Today, he appears to be in a tree pranking cars and engaging the local youth in conversation. Hi Phil!

Here is a MEDITATION ON GERMAN ROCKET CATS. This may seem like overselling but in fact that’s the page. Quote of interest: “In these days when it’s claimed that everything from Nobel Prize-winning literature to children’s television promotes a culture of violence without even knowing it, it’s refreshing to see a writer willing to give bad advice unambiguously and in the imperative mode.” Argument of interest: rocket cats are a better idea than cheese.

Reddit is usually a huge flaming pain in the ass but some bits are good. This collection of difficult YouTube videos is pretty good. Four hours of someone babbling in a Gumby suit is only for the serious enthusiast, but some of the shorter ones are okay for beginners. Beginners in psychosis, I mean.

This is a blog that exclusively covers American Loons. One doubts they’ll ever need to stop. Best quote: “it was information from this interview of a female Reptilian that enabled Michael to work out how to stop his monthly abuductons, and my occasonal abductions, by changing the Quantum Matrix so that the various technologies of the enemy do not work.”

Did NASA cameras catch a  mysterious pentagram, or are some people just kind of tightly wrapped? Best comment: “planned to Unveil on us very soon for the Arrival of the ( ALIEN Anti-Christ Messiah ) Or It Just may be Legitimate Spiritual Manifestations Of the ‘Spirit Of Anti-Christ’  as These ‘Sky Serpent’s’, IE…. Dragons )  are the same that  appeared to the MAYANS also in the Form of ‘Quetzalcoatl’ and I don’t believe that ‘ PROJECT BLUE-BEAM ‘ was around back then  … as far as we know anyways :)” Second best quote: “IT doesn’t look like a optical illusion to me.”