sunday short stack
"Before we set our hearts too much upon anything, let us examine how happy those are who already possess it." - Francois de La Rochefoucauld
- For a mere $36 a year, GreenDimes will stop your paper junk mail and plant a tree a month for you! This link comes from the excellent daily eco-tip Ideal Bite.
- Two bizarro stories from Activate: Someone used a $200,000 stamp to mail in an absentee ballot, and a zoo plans to use panda porn to encourage mating.
- The Webster's Daily blog presents new found poetry (aka "definition") from the first edition of Noah Webster's American Dictionary of the English Language (1828) every day. Link via Old Hag, who also brings us this: I'm in your sink cloggin your drainz.
- Richard Powers won the National Book Award, although I was rooting for the finalist who officiated a wedding I attended the week before. I'm sure he'll get another shot.
- The Five Most Unintentionally Funny Albums of 2006 (via LAist who also link to the 18-page rider for Iggy Pop's latest tour, requesting such delights as "cauliflower/broccoli, cut into individual florets and thrown immediately into the garbage.")
- PLUG asks you to vote and "make our favorite artists the household names they deserve to be."
- Phrases on the Marquee at the Local Strip Club to Cater to a More Literate Crowd
- Dave Eggers introduces the new $10 edition of DFW's opus, which I think I will go buy today at JestFest.
- Boing Boing posts seven punk and post-punk female singer videos.
- 3quarksdaily offers the all-time 100 albums.
