Well-written, entertaining personal blog from a "librarian, skater & publicity director for the LA Derby Dolls, cyclist, writer, experimental chef, retired professional gambler, girl friday for hire, occasional mock jury member, obsessive documenter of daily life.."

"We have a lot of affection for our bees. They’re like our 50,000 pets," Seidenwurm said. My friends are in the newspaper because of their BEES.

Photos and some history of the family restaurants of my childhood. Sambo’s had to lose their name for obvious reasons. I think most of those are Dennys now.

"Last Thursday, ABC’s Nightline held a debate on the existence of Satan." making the point with a few youtube links. nice.

I want to say that there are three people in the world responsible for their demise, and — because I have always loved newspapers, even when they weren’t on my porch or in my driveway — I want to say I’m mad at them about it. And, therefore, I want to record for posterity who they are, and why we should be mad at them.

Innovation never ceases, and as a result we’ve been treated to a wild assortment of ideas from giant amphibious contraptions to bikes that fold up into backpacks.

map of the US by quality of beer

Among the ruins: Stair railings, built-in cabinets, shower doors, double doors to the master bedroom and other doors are gone, a fireplace was yanked out, the hardwood floors are torn up, carpeting was taken, the toilet was removed from a bathroom.

Blog of the former L.A. punk queen and now princess of belly dancing.

Testing kits that allow people to check the strength of drugs they have bought in order to commit suicide are to be sold in the UK by one of the world/s leading advocates of euthanasia.

Twenty tracks of miscellaneous Fall stuff, rare or unreleased

A very strange defense of "Singularics" against Schneier’s doghouse, by its CEO.

"So, I had a bullet in my arm removed…"

If you like guns or really hate hard disk drives this video is for you.

Who doesn’t love keytars and martial arts, and wish the two things could work together better?

Malone came as a Christian missionary with him "to oppose the doctrines prevalent in the UFO field so that people could understand the Biblical perspective."

A company in Tasmania has found a way to make paper out of excreta from the Australian marsupials known as wombats

the board voted Monday afternoon to cut bus trips by about a quarter and lay off nearly 400 bus drivers, supervisors and maintenance workers. ow my infrastructure

We’ll be taking a look at the evolution of the interface designs of the major operating systems since the 80s.

alerting service for disasters and other excitement in Orange County, CA

Novels in Three Lines collects more than a thousand items that appeared anonymously in the French newspaper Le Matin in 1906: true stories of murder, mayhem, and everyday life presented with a ruthless economy that provokes laughter even as it shocks.

Kids stuff of the 80s and older. Good TV clips.

A high school principal and his security staff shut feuding students in a steel cage to settle disputes with bare-knuckle fistfights. Every line is a pullquote.

What, you think they go back and fix them? The problem of bad science staying in the record.

an international alliance of environmentally concerned scientists striving to facilitate the establishment of a large-scale process industry for the production of muscle tissue for human consumption. VAT GROWN MEAT

388 of the roughly 2000 artists at SXSW have a female member.

Unfortunately, Dr Duarte’s method was not designed to find out which features label someone as trustworthy.

nice shots of the tongan kaboom

"After seeing Feldman’s online site, liver4you.org, the pair wired $70,000 to a New York bank account for Feldman last year."