Recently I have been inundated with scam-spam offering me millions of dollars if only I help someone unlikely steal an even larger amount of money for themselves.

A film has been made of the lives and times of the Holy Modal Rounders, and it is shortly being made available on DVD. The trailer is here.

OJ Simpson writes an unusual kind of book. Read it and weep. Etc.

Yesterday Rupert Murdoch reacted to the growing public anger about these festive OJ Christmas specials, by personally intervening and cancelling both. Judith Regan then issued a long (2,000 words and more) statement in which she defended herself and her decision to create the book and tv show.

Headlines of the week: the blindingly obvious and the creepily unamusing. That sort of thing.

At the end of an interview Honor Blackman tells an anecdote about Irene Handl, for years a star of British film comedies and later a mainstay of television comedy.

A mixed bag of quotations found online at DidYouKnow, with a link to the source.

While I was in the Bookmark in Charlotte last Saturday I picked up a bargain book that was waiting temptingly at the counter.

Stewart Butterfield and Caterina Fake were the founders and creators of Flickr, which began in Toronto and was later bought by Yahoo for $35 million.

They can be seen here in a photo streamed – of course – from Flickr:…

Ryanair fail to take things as seriously as the current political climate demands. Humour ensues.

A catty, but accurate, question to Leonard Bernstein.

At the end of September there was a world premiere for the Tiny Nation machinima. This has since been gathering a lot of praise and laughter from the many Second Life blogs and web sites.
The machinima was shot entirely inside Second Life using avatars from Loco Pocos.

Tripod are from Australia. They sing. They are funny.

Some quotations from the immortal Yogi Berra, plus some links to more of the same.

This was on YouTube, and represents a fake attack warning delivered to a fake religion. The only question I have: what does Garner Ted Armstrong think of all of this?