I can’t get enough of these inane furry creatures. Today (and yeah, I’m a little late on the game, but so what) I discovered LOLcat translation services: http://speaklolcat.com and http://txt2lol.com. Both sites are decent, but both suffer from computer-generated-translationitis. I guess language–even made-up language–is still too complex for machines to pick up on the subtle [...]

Via Blue Tea, two artists that create miniature dioramas using books as their medium. Su Blackwell‘s scenes are part Joseph Cornell, part fairy tale (not that Cornell’s works aren’t themselves fairy tale). Thomas Allen uses pulp covers in much the same way, though I’d say his work is more humorous (perhaps inherently so, due to [...]

AskOxford.com asks: “Apart from ‘angry’ and ‘hungry’, what other common English word ends in ‘-gry’?” The answer may surprise you. More: There are no words that rhyme with orange, but what’s the other common English word with no rhymes? The opposite of nocturnal is diurnal, but what do you call animals that come out at [...]

Seen on a Craigslist ad: “Compensation commiserate with experience.” On second thought, considering its place of origin, maybe that wasn’t a typo..

DC has introduced some new (to me) safety alerts that play while you are waiting in a station for your train. There’s the usual “If you see any unattended bags or suspicious behavior, please report it,” which is nothing strange. Then there is some bizarre recording comparing escalators to alligators. DCist has the text version [...]

Yar har har, me hearties. It be International Talk Like A Pirate Day today, a holiday endorsed by scurvy Dave Barry himself (so it must be legit!). Talking like a salty sea dog is quite simple, thanks to Robert Newton. He be the scurvy dog what gave Long John Silver a West Country accent (which, [...]

Eye Rhyme Apologies in advance for linking to such a terribly-designed web site. If the watermarks and iframes don’t crash your browser, though, “Eye Rhyme” is a fun read.

A coworker pointed me in the direction of this Houston Chronicle piece about LOLcats. Yes, for real. It’s hard to be a twenty-something, cutting-edge Internet hipster and read about cutting-edge hip things written by People Who Just Don’t Get It, but Dwight Silverman is not one of those people. I remember when my sister and [...]

The Book Inscriptions Project collects interesting or odd notes written on the inside of a book. Example: JAN. 22, 1969 dear Tim— This glorious book has very many weird stories in it. It is also a Playboy book- so when you read this book think of the weirdest, sexiest girl, you will think of me [...]