Although the self-help books call it synchronicity when you start noticing a word or thing frequently that you never noticed before – like spotting blue Hondas everywhere after you purchase one – I’m not quite sure what to do with the sudden climb in news stories about carrier pigeons.  I don’t think it’s me.  First [...]

I’m unexpectedly away from my computer that has all the favorites marked so I’m not setup to do the usual miscellaneous links post.  However, I’ve learned many odd and quirky things this week although they could be classified as a bit macabre: Cremated remains can arrive by regular mail (registered) and in an unmarked box [...]

We’re only a couple months away from prime fund raising season when the naive freshman are lured into call centers with the promise of fee pizza. I’m not sure how they do it but American colleges and Universities are better at keeping up to date on unpublished alumni phone numbers than the government.  I’m guessing [...]

There’s a gnome factory in New Zealand that recently fell victim to arson. While I would rather the elderly owner not have been made a victim, I can kinda see where this might have come from.  It’s one of those gray area of ethics that they use to test children’s emotional maturity (stealing is bad, [...]

Remember years ago when people were paid to find and acquire .com names just so that someone else wouldn’t get them?  And in the hopes of reselling it to a client or a speculator.  Everyone got bored with that and has moved on to trademarks, which are actually quite a bit more expensive to squat [...]

This presumes that you now or at some time in the past have occupied a cubicle for the better part of a work day.  There seem to be several styles of cubicle occupation that reflect an individual’s personality and life philosophy: Life is transitory – This desk and this job is temporary so I’m not [...]

The economy is bad everywhere. Things are so bad in France that Parisians have been requested to stop being impatient with tourists and start smiling in the hopes that some of the tourists that left or never came in the first place will come back. There is no word from the Minister of Culture, responsible [...]

While I am a city dweller, I’m not ignorant of where my food comes from. However, I can honestly say that until I saw this story today, it had never occurred to me what happened to the millions of chicken feet that Americans refuse to eat. It’s not one of the agricultural oddities that shows [...]

It’s no secret that I’m not a Twitter fan, but I do have to admit that the Iranian protesters have found a legitimate purpose for it that can’t be equaled by anything else.  While revolution is always a tricky business both in terms of logistics and phrasing, per the musical 1776 “A rebellion is always [...]

So apparently all the world’s air quality woes can now be laid at the door of the poor table manners of sheep and cattle. They are so inconsiderate as to belch methane as they go about their daily business.  Of course, when the sheep take it upon themselves to try and change their diet, they [...]