It’s worth the effort to spend some time brows­ing the gallery at Square Amer­ica.

For exam­ple, this ill-​​considered com­par­i­son:

and this image of por­tent and apoc­a­lyp­tic antic­i­pa­tion:

both found in the semi-​​permanent col­lec­tion [used with permission].

Adding to my own sense of coin­ci­dence, I was wait­ing for a car­ry­out pizza to be done three days back and walked into the antique shop next door. Along with old books, I always have to stick my nose into the bas­ket or box of old pho­tographs. There were some amaz­ing ones.

But then, our own base­ment has many items still need­ing to be catalogued…

(Via 無の研究.)

So my wife is brows­ing the refer­ral reports for her blog, and asks this typ­i­cally salient question:

If I’m read­ing an RSS feed of some­body else’s blog, and they have a link in their RSS to my blog, and I click that link… who’s IP address gets writ­ten to the log­files as the referrer?

Tech­ni­cally this is a ques­tion about RSS stan­dards and prac­tices, I sup­pose, as well as Apache’s log­ging. But in prac­tice it’s about the observed length of chains of surf­ing behavior.

Advice (or exper­i­men­tal results) would be welcomed.

“Poke a Dot”

via the eBay Book­sellers’ Dis­cus­sion Forum

sub­mit­ted to The Eggcorn Database

From the Chrononau­tic Log: Space Squid is tak­ing sub­mis­sions.

When it comes to Seren­ity trail­ers, at least.

Why do we get the badly-​​edited swooshy space­ships, and you get the good dia­log. It’s our damned mother tongue, too.