Fantastic post. My favorite:

Bear sighting: An item in the National Briefing in Sunday’s Section A said a bear wandered into a grocery story in Hayward, Wis., on Friday and headed for the beer cooler. It was Thursday.

Interesting post here from Fake Steve – who, if you didn’t know, writes as a Steve Jobs impostor, if Steve were more comedian and less businessman. It starts out as a hypothetical ‘why AT&T’s network is sucking the fun out of the iPhone’ conversation, and turns into a ‘what’s wrong with America’. And while I’ll admit I have a bias on this particular segment of the ‘what’s wrong’ topic, he nails it:

“…Wall Street got involved and became everyone’s enabler, devoting all their energy and brainpower to breaking things up and parceling them out and selling them off in pieces and then putting them back together again, and it was all about taking all this great shit that our predecessors had built and “unlocking value” which really meant finding ways to leech out whatever bit of money they could get in the short run and let the future be damned. It was all just one big swindle, and the only kind of engineering that matters anymore is financial engineering.”

Yep.

A) It’s a grammar challenge.
B) The source material is from David Foster Wallace.

How am I supposed to pass this up?

Here are the questions.
Here are the answers.

Go.

(I got 3/10 on a quick run through, and might have gotten two more had I spent more time on it.)

h/t to HTMLGIANT, obviously, by way of kottke.org

A short post on how to lose a half-hour of your time. Go here:

http://birdbook.org/

Great photography, nice minimal presentation. Very, very cool.

I’m clearly a little off my game. A famous Hollywood icon¹ passes, and it takes me a full nine days to realize that it’s a chance to run one of my favorite skits. Ah well, at least I did eventually think of it.

So, without further ado, let’s all gather ’round and let the boys on the Satellite of Love serenade us with a rendition of Let’s Have a Patrick Swayze Christmas, inspired by Crow’s favorite movie: Roadhouse. Call me crazy, but this may just be the Swayziest Christmas of them all.

P.S. Yes, I know it is a little early for Christmas music, but what the hey.