sunday short stack
"People are like birds: on the wing, all beautiful; up close, all beady little eyes." - Mignon McLaughlin
- Swiss accidentally invade Leichtenstein
- The Daily Bruin profiles UCLA life science professor and Bad Religion frontman Greg Graffin (via blogging.la).
- Compare and analyze accents at the Speech Accent Archive, or just listen to the snippets from Scotland, Ireland, and New Zealand over and over again (via NPR).
- Premiere looks at the 20 worst post-Oscar career choices (via Defamer).
- And speaking of Oscars, Scorsese's next project will be an "epic rock 'n roll feature" co-produced by Mick Jagger.
- New York City hands down the most symbolic, unenforceable ban ever.
- Daylight-saving glitch threatens mini-Y2K, and I so don't care as long as I can leave work while it's still light out.
- Angelina Jolie turns correspondent for The Washington Post to call for justice in Darfur.
- Jake Dobkin looks at graffiti in Vietnam.
- Marshal Zeringue of Campaign for the American Reader has started a new website that asks authors to imagine the film version of their books, My Book, The Movie.
- Rick at Futurballa has a terrifying look at the conservative answer to Wikipedia, Conservapedia.
- Michel Gondry solves a Rubik's Cube with his nose.
