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Actually, I would love to have a space elevator in my backyard. Guess these folks wouldn’t. :) Courtesy of Boing Boing

I was reading alexking.org and ran across this meme: Go to bloglines (don’t think you need to have an account). Find your own blog on bloglines (if it’s not there you can sign up and add it I guess, if you don’t have a blog this one’s not for you). Click related feeds (each time you click they may change slightly). Post the top 5 (or more) on your blog. Here are mine: ...

Excerpt from “Play-by-Play of Classic Sports Rivalries If the Team Names Actually Represented the Combatants. And Also, Instead of Playing the Sport, They’re Fighting to the Death” Giants vs. Dodgers “It’s a classic David vs. Goliath matchup as an old-fashioned trolley-dodger from turn-of-the-century Brooklyn takes on—this match is over!” Browns vs. Steelers “Now what are we looking at here?” “I couldn’t tell you.” Check out more McSweeney’s Lists.

From 1901, when everyone carried a cane or umbrella — for defensive purposes only, of course — a Pearson’s Magazine article on stick-fighting moves for the well-dressed assailant. Link courtesy of Boing Boing

You’d think, when putting together the dictionary for random spam subject lines, they’d get rid of certain words that spam filters won’t like: [thrusting] 84% off Vicodin. asteroids shadowy I got this one today, and I still don’t know if the first verb is supposed to have something to do with the 84% off part. :)

Not as bad as it could have been. :)

While I don’t subscribe to our hometown newspaper — I prefer some of the weekend coverage of The News & Observer over in Raleigh — it’s a shame that a “small, family-owned media group” comes in and immediately starts axing employees at the Durham (N.C.) Herald-Sun. Link courtesy of Romenesko

In today’s email haul: Re: [Anabaptists] 75% off Vicodin. bodyweight tail

Born on this day: Christopher Wren Arthur Rimbaud John Dewey Bela Lugosi Art Buchwald Mickey Mantle Tom Petty Viggo Mortensen Snoop Dogg and me… My Geek Horoscope: Libra - Despite all your lobbying efforts you won’t be able to convince Apple to release OS X for the Commodore 64.

Today is the six-month anniversary of the day I married a woman I didn’t think could exist, at least before I met her: My soulmate. (As corny as it sounds, it’s true, which still amazes me.) It has been wonder-full. Love you, Lorrie. Looking forward to a lot more anniversaries. :)