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(Roughly) Daily

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A daily chapbook...

• Added on: Sep 10th, 2009
• Country: United States
• Language: English

• Author: Lawrence Wilkinson
• Listed in: Observational Humor Cultural
• Tags: technology humor arts media Economy history

Recent Posts

• The worst of the best…

  Posted on Monday November 30th, 2009 at 03:01 in Libraries, censorship, mark twain, huckleberry finn, banned books, library collections, samuel langhorne clemens, great american novel, the adventures of huckleberry finn, mary kelly, awful library books, culling collections

  “Mary and Holly” (Mary Kelly and Holly Hibner) are librarians at “a medium-sized public library in Michigan,” who have worked together for over ten years.  They’ve developed a long suit in culling library collections...

• Turning two bits into… well, about 1.6 bits…

  Posted on Sunday November 29th, 2009 at 03:01 in espionage, george iii, invisible ink, john jay, electromagnetic forming, james jay, magneforming, quarter shrinking, stoneridge engineering

  In case the economic turmoil of the last year or so hasn’t done enough to reduce the size of one’s assets, the good folks at Stoneridge Engineering (motto:  “wreaking havoc with electrons for over forty years”) have gone publ...

• When life– or the S.F. City Attorney– hands you lemons…

  Posted on Saturday November 28th, 2009 at 03:01 in san francisco, Shakespeare, Red Bull, sparks, pez, william shakespeare, anne hathaway, king cobra, coors, stratford-upon-avon, anne hathway, city attorney

  SFoodie is among the throng regretting SF City Attorney Dennis Herrera’s successful effort to pressure Coors into removing essentially all of the active ingredients (caffeine, taurine, guarana, and ginseng) from their energy drink Sparks. When ...

• “I ain’t phoning no home, sucka”!…

  Posted on Friday November 27th, 2009 at 03:01 in jimi hendrix, bruce lee, mr. t, b3ta, e.t., a team, laughing squid

  From b3ta user “The Great Architect,” a mash-up of two great 80s icons: Mr. E.T. (ToTH to Laughing Squid) As we rifle the shelves in search of those A-Team tapes, we might spare a memorial thought for two icons of the 60s and 70s, neithe...

• Expressing (among other emotions) gratitude…

  Posted on Thursday November 26th, 2009 at 03:01 in library, british library, lewis carroll, rare books, book of the month, special collections, university of glasgow, alice's adventures in wonderland, charles dodgson, alice liddell, charles lutwidge dodgson, alice's adventures under ground

  On this Day of Thanks (here in the U.S. in any case), it behooves one to call out– indeed, to celebrate– those things that bring warm happiness, that nourish the soul.  Your correspondent humbly nominates “The Book of the Month,...

• The weight of the world (wide web)…

  Posted on Wednesday November 25th, 2009 at 10:16 in internet, weight, cnet, world wide web, mass, crave, alfred nobel, nobel prizes, chris stevens, weight of the internet, how heavy is the internet, mass of the internet

  Chris Stevens at Crave (CNET-UK) wondered… Using publicly available information, for the first time in the world, we have precisely and scientifically calculated the weight of the Internet. Obviously this information is only really useful to s...

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