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I want to see a mime, actually trapped, in a real glass box.

Major fire in the Trinity Church in St. Petersburg today, which I wanted to comment on here primarily because it yielded one of the most striking photos I’ve seen lately. Still, it’s tragic.
Funny – like Randal from Clerks (who hates people but loves gatherings), I hate most organized religion, but I can really appreciate [...]

In a remarkable accomplishment, a team of scientists and astronomers led by Doug Clowe of the University of Arizona at Tucson have uncovered direct proof of the existence of long-hypothesized dark matter. See NASA’s press release here, a nice article by National Geographic here, and an amazing first photograph here.
UPDATE: Fellow MeFite and [...]

And just a day after the Bridge Pedal, some fuckwit stole my bike – my primary means of transportation, my primary means of exercise, and one of the few genuine pleasures I have in this fucked-up life.
I can’t even begin to find the words to express how angry and frustrated I am [...]

So today was the Providence Bridge Pedal, also known as the Portland Bridge Pedal. For those not familiar, it’s essentially a biking tour of every Portland bridge over the Willamette River. Per the website, it’s the second-largest organized recreational ride in the country (second to what, I wonder? Maybe Bike the Drive?). [...]

[Note: I needed to link to this poem for someone, and I couldn’t find the full text of it anywhere online, so I have retyped and posted it from my own copy of New and Selected Poems. It is certainly under copyright and it may be that Ms. Oliver really does not want [...]

Are you, by any chance, visiting from Craigslist? If so, welcome, have a seat anywhere, make yourself at home. Pardon the dust, I’ve been geeky lately. Feel free to poke around. Let me know what you think.

Well, it’s a little irritating, but my new format has been extensively tested and works perfectly in Firefox for Windows, Firefox for Mac, Safari and Camino. It’s fully standards-compliant and contains no errors.
But IE can’t figure out how to show it correctly.
I am inclined to think that the problem is with IE. [...]

Quite simply, the best milk review ever.
(Link courtesy of “MeFi”:http://www.metafilter.com/mefi/53672.)
UPDATE: Amazon realized that people were having fun on their website, and that they were actually regaining some element of hipness and net cred, so in their infinite wisdom they removed all of the food reviews. You can still see some of them at [...]

The long awaited1 Colophon page is now up, and it’s chock full of tasty linky goodness.
1 Well, yes, I realize that you weren’t waiting for it. “Long awaited” is perhaps not entirely true, at least not in any universal sense. It was bugging me that it wasn’t done though. So there it is.