I love Neatorama, I do. It's an excellent source for quirky and beautiful things. But the source for this post is, by all reliable accounts, probably a pack of lies.

'Nother update:
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090422/ap_on_en_mo/as_india_slumdog_4

It's questionable sourcing like this that makes me NOT want to read Neatorama on a daily basis, or at all. When I quit coming by here, the credulous blogging of stuff like this will be the reason why.

I know this comment probably reads as pretty harsh, but I swear it's typed with love and respect. Neatorama, you're better than this.

Weird -- not two hours ago I got home from visiting the traveling Tutankhamun exhibit (currently in Atlanta -- www.kingtut.org) and now Neatorama has two related posts in a row.

Now I'm off to go watch Bert and Ernie explore an old pyramid...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A_YTCJqrtHs

And for some reason The Commonwealth of Massachusetts has named my favorite living blues singer, Taj Mahal, as the official Blues Artist of the Commonwealth.

http://www.mass.gov/legis/laws/seslaw06/sl060019.htm

(I mention a few other official symbols in this blogpost: http://shellgrowback.blogspot.com/2008/04/stagger-lee-saturdays-taj-mahal.html )

Nice. I just saw the USB hub man yesterday.

http://www.rolostore.com/index.php?main_page=product_info&cPath=5&products_id=21

(That's the first link I found about it, and have no idea of the reliability or quality of that particular store.)

And we take another step towards Terry Gilliam's dystopian masterpiece Brazil...

The most evil of the evil government workers in that movie wear terrifying baby masks, and it's very easy to assume the logic here would also be used to justify that decision in the world of the film.

Very pretty. I sent that link off to Daniel Pinkwater, who is both Jewish and the creator of the "Blue Moose" series of novels for readers of all ages.

Wow, 14 comments in and not one mention of V for Vendetta? The power cord even hooks into a little goatee.

I'm male, so I'm not necessarily expected to understand women's beauty rituals, but this strikes me as something even the most masochistic, self-hating, bad self-image-suffering woman wouldn't do for long.

This is great news. I was very very sad when John Cleese tried out his pay-to-view model, and though I'm the biggest Python fan I know, I never paid him a penny for that.

It's great that this also includes new interviews with all five remaining members, and even private home movies.

Neatest thing I've heard all week.

Actually, my first thought was:

Are their feet still attached? Maybe the ocean has some weird human/lego foot transfer system we don't know about...

For the record, my marriage failed because we didn't talk.

This is, yes, junk science and pseudopsych blather. Any woman who *wants* a man that won't listen to her will surely be able to find one, but there are many many of us out there who crave communication.

This guy sounds like he's on the road to true empathy with the inmates, which is always in short supply in our correctional system.

With that said, while he's receiving a government paycheck, it's pretty unconstitutional for him personally to bring religion into his workplace. (I know there are a lot of religious outreach programs in our prisons, and as long as access is fair and equal for all, that can be a good opportunity for the inmates. But when tax dollars pay the salaries of the people running them, that's totally different.)

Look at it this way -- if his Malachi program were about readings from The Qur'an, rather than The Bible, he'd likely be booted out of office pretty quickly, and the article in Newsweek would be all about that.

If you read Stan's autobiography ("It Only Hurts When I Laugh") he tells how he convinced Bradbury, who refused all commercial endorsements, to make this commercial.

42 years ago, Bob Dylan wrote one of his funniest odd songs, "Leopard-skin Pill-Box Hat." He claims that a hat matching that description "balances on your head just like a mattress balances on a bottle of wine."

Bob was always a prophet at all times...

Click my name to read the lyrics.

Hooker? Really? Pull the other one.

http://www.word-detective.com/052003.html (about a third of the way down) tells us, along with quite a few other sites (Wikipedia is one) that the use of the word "hooker" to describe prostitutes was around 20 years before the Civil War.

Didn't "little shavers" come from Burma Shave signs? That's certainly the earliest reference I've ever seen.