Philip Fibiger

Zoolander was very funny. Definitely better than Jay & Silent Bob, and one of the funniest movies I’ve seen in a long time.
“This is a center for ants! How can we teach children to read if they can’t even fit inside the building?”
Also of note: my birthday is on October 5th, just a few short [...]

It’s good to see that The Onion is back. I think it made sense for them to stop publishing in the wake of the attack on the WTC, but I also think that humor is one of the best medicines.

Finally! Three years has been way too long, but it sounds like it might be worth it. From Paul Hilcoff’s post to the sugar-list, with regards to his phone conversation with Bob Mould:
He wanted everyone to know the latest story with the new album. Here’s
the deal: there is no deal. The latest [...]

After thinking about how much of a huge pain it would be to write a program to use my cue cat to scan barcodes on books and catalog our library and cd collection, I found out that paul at onfocus.com is building a tool for managing book (and eventually CD/DVD) collections. I’ve been using it, [...]

As if we didn’t need any other reasons for not going to war, Andy pointed out an interesting piece about a Russian soldier who fought in Afghanistan, and compares the warfare there to the war the United States fought against Vietnam.
“Terrorists don’t sit in bases waiting for bombs to drop. They live in houses. They [...]

Do your favorite NPR correspondents/hosts look like they sound? Slate had a neat article about this, as well as a quiz. If you listen to NPR at all, these are definitely worth taking a look at.