Phrase I did not expect to read in a Dashiell Hammett crime story: ‘“I knew a fellow once in Onehunga,” he drawled…’ (Nightmare Town, 1924)

Amazingly, nostalgic about paying $14 to see a DVD projected onto a screen the size of a bath towel in a 15-seat cinema. Much like watching at home, except you can’t pause for toilet breaks, and there are three complete strangers on your couch.

Great Zoological Discoveries 27: Cows sound just like people saying “moo”. Or, sometimes, trying to muffle screams of agony.

Amazing new tool for de-cluttering computer desktop: put everything in a folder called “Desktop [Sort]”, never to be heard from again.

I used to be disgusted by people who ate raw cookie dough, but now I find there are folks who eat raw frozen pizza. Thanks, Internet.

Why should del.icio.us be the only one having fun with country codes? Quick, nicega.ms is free. Also goldarn.it, gottabe.in, iyamwhati.am, fakesteve.jobs, and (very proud of this) jorgeluisb.org.es

Kazakhstan is apparently still hung up on _Borat_. Just let it go, Kazakhstan. Let it go.

Everything made much more sense when I realized Tom Waits is a werewolf.

If you see a car with Hawai’i plates in the mainland US and steal it, there’ll be a pot of gold in the trunk and you’ll get a wish.

I think we’re all in agreement that the biggest letdown with _Inception_ was the lack of a Joseph Gordon-Levitt dance sequence.

Call me stuffy, but I refuse to buy my kazoos from someone who believes in Atlantis.

Dear Mr Obama: why not come and be President of New Zealand? I guarantee less than 18% of us think you’re Muslim.

Apparently I appeared in a friend’s dream and yelled, “You can’t stomp on Incas: they’re part of history!”

I’d heard of Robert Evans’ success, downfall, comeback, book, audiobook, and movie, but a cartoon show too? That, my friends, is a career.

The fastest starfish is the Sunflower Star, Pycnopodia helianthoides, which can reach 75 cm/minute, or 0.045 km/hr. Starfish racing would be like greyhound racing, but more restful. And with a terrified fleeing abalone.

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