What we know now

Here's a list of 50 interesting things that we now know that we didn't know at this time last year.

How to handle telemarketers

Why is it that I joined the no-calling list yet I still get telemarketers calling at dinner time? Here is sweet revenge. This has to be the best trick played on a telemarketer. It's very funny.

From Neatorama

Tuesday Lovin': 10 Least Successful Holiday Specials

Very funny list of failed holiday specials. There are such goodies as: Muppet Christmas with Zbigniew Brzezinski, A Canadian Christmas with David Cronenberg, and Ayn Rand's A Selfish Christmas.

Feeling Lucky, Punk?

Sunday Schadenfruende: Tom Delay's Blog

If I've got the story correctly, Tom Delay started a blog and was so overwhelmed by negative comments that he took it down. But not before some wily person copied and re-posted it. Read the nice, warm and fuzzy comments.

Warning: After the first few posts it deteriorates into puerile name calling and is rather distasteful.

Looking Back: New Old Photographs

By chance I came across these two collections of photos from the 30s and 40s. They both candidly reveal a very different America. It gave me pause to think about an 8mm film I'd seen years ago when I had gone with a friend to visit his grandparents. The color film was of New York in the late 1940s or early 50s and was fascinating. It's one thing to see a city represented in a Hollywood film but quite another in a home movie. It is in some ways more magical because it is evidence made by someone you know and trust. Of course, the stories that accompany a viewing help make it vividly real.

The comments on both these collections work similarly.

Happy X-Mas

from Crooks and Liars