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PHOSPHORESCENT FOOD

“We don’t hear a lot of complaints about glowing seafood, but then people rarely look at their shrimp and crab in the dark.”
—Andy Richards, seafood department manager, West Seattle Thriftway
Bonus: 1998 FDA article on glowing seafood

WORD ORIGINS: TERRORIST

If the French Terror had a slogan, it was that attributed to the great orator Louis de Saint-Just: “No liberty for the enemies of liberty.” Saint-Just’s pithy phrase (like President Bush’s variant, “We must not let foreign enemies use the forums of liberty to destroy liberty itself”) could serve as the very antithesis of the […]

TYPOGRAPHICAL TOMFOOLERY

A New York state company will stop production of Red Ribbon Week bracelets and discard its remaining inventory of the rubber wrist bands because of an unintended message printed on them.
The bracelets, handed out last week to students in the WACO school district in southeast Iowa, carried the anti-drug slogan “I’ve Got BETTER Things to […]

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Q And one more. You mentioned that there are health benefits to climate change. Could you describe some of those?
MS. PERINO: Sure. In some cases, there are — look, this is an issue where I’m sure lots of people would love to ridicule me when I say this, but it is true that many people […]

BINGO

“Christianity: An idea so fragile that it is threatened by a fantasy movie for kids!”

PLAY A GAME, FEED THE HUNGRY

For every vocabulary word you get right, FreeRice donates ten grains of rice to the hungry. The game adjusts to your vocabulary level automatically, and it’s funded by unobtrusive ads. Pretty neat.

HEADLINE OF THE DAY

Flaming squirrel ignites car in Bayonne

QUOTE OF THE DAY

“While I can see Bill O’Reilly and others might be offended, the sisters do not meet the criteria the church has for denying Communion. Over-accessorizing and poor taste in makeup is not an excommunicable offense.”
—Rev. Jim Bretzke, professor of moral theology, in “Archbishop apologizes for giving Communion to gays dressed as nuns” (San Francisco Chronicle)

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WELCOME TO MY BRAIN

I happened to see a photo of a lemon trifle, and that triggered a “Savoy Truffle” earworm.

HEADLINE OF THE DAY

‘Goat-free roads made me speed’