Matthias Wandel’s insane constructions (link from AlterSlash). From the same site: some surprisingly effective mathematical drawings.
Tonja Steele, comic strip about a dyke an amazon and her adopted daughter. Jackie’s Fridge is about – er – Jackie, her talking fridge, her guinea-pig with delusions of Antichrist-hood, and their neighbors, when it’s not being filled in (as now) with unrelated stories. Joey Hetzel (creator of Tonja) and BJ Hiorns (creator of Jackie) are a couple. Together they made JoBeth until they ran out of blonde jokes.
Wow . . this Indian matchmaking site starts with a bewildering menu of religions: Buddhist, Christian (10 flavors), Hindu (132 flavors), Jain, Jewish, Muslim (7 flavors), Sikh (7 flavors), No Religion, Other. 132 kinds of Hindu? And no subflavors of Buddhist? TWIAVBP.
A couple of items found somewhere-or-other, years ago.
PREDICTION CORNER. ‘Before man reaches the moon, your mail will be delivered within hours from New York to California, from England to India, by guided missile. We stand on the threshold of rocket mail.’ (Arthur Summerfield, US Postmaster General, 23 June 1959) [TH] (I guess this one came from Ansible.)
The Tom Sawyer Uncertainty Principle: It’s either not every day or not everywhere that you get to whitewash a fence, but you can never know which.
I see that a “former Bolivian president” (BBC) / “ex-Bolivian dictator” (CNN) / “former Bolivian leader” (Nando) has died. What kind of dictator did he become when he retired from being Bolivian? Why do you never see “Bolivian ex-dictator” (or “British former prime minister”) in the news? Hm, maybe Ex-Bolivia and Former Britain are different countries . . . .
LATER: I was delighted when it was briefly bandied about in 2004 that India might get a former Italian prime minister: Sonia Gandhi, Italian-born widow of Rajiv.
Chief Illiniwek to dance no more
The Fighting Illini need a new mascot. Any suggestions?