sunday short stack

"To feel today what one felt yesterday isn't to feel - it's to remember today what was felt yesterday, to be today's living corpse of what yesterday was lived and lost." - Fernando Pessoa

• CapitolWords allows you to see the most used word in the US Congress on any given day. Yesterday, surprise, surprise: Oil.
• How to play the theremin
• WFMU's Beware of the Blog has a dandy collection of Bo Diddley mp3s.
• Art of the Title explores the fine art behind opening and closing film credits.
• The "complex, sordid history" of "Happy Birthday to You"
• The 50 Greatest Commercial Parodies of All Time
• The 11 Most Badass Last Words Ever Uttered
• The 2008 World's Ugliest Dog is named Gus.
• I've become a pretty healthy eater, but my main weakness is breakfast carbs of all kinds. So thanks a lot, NYC Donut Report, for alerting me to the fact that I live blocks from "the best donuts in New York City."