Dime Museum dies ...

a curiosity closet will soon succumb to perils of real life ...

 

http://www.baltimoresun.com/news/local/bal-md.dime28nov28,1,212706.story?coll=bal-pe-maryland

all your questions answered

those on magazine covers, anyway. or maybe not.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/11/21/AR2005112101653_pf.html

 

It's going to Disneyland

 

The president's Thanksgiving turkey gets more than a pardon this year ...

 

http://www.baltimoresun.com/news/nationworld/bal-te.turkey22nov22,1,7208146.story?coll=bal-pe-asection

Memo to readers

More on the same theme ...

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/11/18/AR2005111803059_pf.html

 

memo to staff

More layoffs on the way at a fictional newspaper that seems oddly familiar.

http://poynter.org/forum/view_post.asp?id=10668

college journalism

 

So, college journalists are vilified, thanks for the opportunity that the Internet provides to professional journalists to skewer their work? I dunno about this one ... but the article permitted a chance to reminisce about idealistic days of yore.

http://www.slate.com/id/2130495/

 

Come for the crabs ...

 

stay for the rebranding. Check out the attempts to put a shine on the outward face of B-more, and some suggestions for replacement slogans.

 

http://www.baltimoresun.com/features/lifestyle/bal-te.to.brands09nov09,1,2547001.story?coll=bal-artslife-today

a&f

I kinda wonder about marketing techniques that make me want to throw up on products. Warning: you'll have to subscribe or watch a commercial to read this link.

http://www.salon.com/mwt/broadsheet/index.html?blog=/mwt/broadsheet/2005/11/03/girlcott/index.html

plain language

a government effort against superfluous words.
 

plainlanguage.gov

 

google maps pedometer

The redhead and I used to live very far apart.

from Google Maps:

Start address:	Baltimore, MD
End address:	Rochester, NY
Driving Distance:	359 mi (about 7 hours 56 mins)

Now our mailing addresses are close enough to walk between them.

http://www.gmap-pedometer.com/?centerX=-76.61352396011352&centerY=39.303869113897576&zl=1&fl=m-e-h-0-1&polyline=%7Dj%7BnFbnrrMeDjB

Just hit "start recording" and double-click on the map to place markers. This thing even has a calorie counter! You just have to turn it on ...

don't be this guy

http://www.tian.cc/2005/10/pretentious-douche-bag-with-apple-imac.html

dancing monkey

this one's 50 percent more animated!

http://www.lucinamerica.com/mid_l_dan.html

 

ok, soon I will be a sleeping monkey.

http://www.lucinamerica.com/mid_l_sle.html

what I'm not reading

As every day passes I accumulate more and more material that I have not read. Here is a selection of things I fully intend to consume:

1. Friday Night Lights, by H.G. Bissinger
2. Four (4) issues of Granta
3. Indeterminate back issues of The New Yorker (plus the remaining unread parts of some issues)
4. Three (3) NYT magazines
5. The Beach by Alex Garland
6. No Logo by Naomi Klein
7. And Still We Rise by Miles Corwin
8. The Power Broker by Robert A. Caro
9. Learn Malayalam in a Month (Indian Language series)
10. One Up on Wall Street by Peter Lynch*
11. Beating the Street by Peter Lynch*
12. Gutenberg by John Man

I'm not sure how to rectify the upward trend. What aren't you reading?

*These books have been on my shelf the longest, and they aren't even mine, so I think they count as stolen now. Oh, wait. What about Rosencratz and Guilderstern are Dead, by Tom Stoppard? I guess there is another list -- of books, etc. that were borrowed with yet-unrealized intentions of return to their proper owners. Hopefully Pat will forgive me ...

what are you doing?

or, what are you not doing because you're reading this? tell the world. someone else might be not-doing the same thing.

 

http://www.43things.com/

even nice smells are suspect

http://www.nj.com/newsflash/national/index.ssf?/base/national-4/1130509743229120.xml&storylist=national
http://www.nytimes.com/2005/10/29/nyregion/29smell.html?pagewanted=print