Aditi sent me this:
Submerged stone structures lying just below the waters off Yonaguni Jima are actually the ruins of a Japanese Atlantis—an ancient city sunk by an earthquake about 2,000 years ago.
That’s the belief of Masaaki Kimura, a marine geologist at the University of the Ryukyus in Japan who has been diving at the site […]

What you gonna do, when they Google for you?
I think this is worth repeating if you’re an internet-person like me (Some Of My Best Friends Are Dot Coms™).
To clarify, I have no problem that they’re using Typepad, but for goodness sake put it on your own domain. When someone Google’s you the first hit […]

I just finished reading Catcher in the Rye, mainly because a girl at a party a week or so ago mentioned it in a very elliptical way. And after reading it, I still can’t say that I know specifically to what she was referring to. Speaking of which, wasn’t the dude who killed Lennon also […]

Just curious, as I was at a grocery store recently and an old person was paying with a check (cheque?) and the other people in line got all fussy because of it and were quite critical of this elderly person for paying with what was once a perfectly acceptable format for exchanging money. The thing […]

The neighborhood I live in, Hampden (slightly north of Baltimore proper), has been feverishly pumped for a few years now as one of the “it” places to live if you’re an up-and-coming quasi-progressive person with enough money to plunk down in a neighborhood so that poorer white people have to move out of it. But […]