Sorry if anyone's Friday morning internet browsing binge habit has been disrupted by my change in time zone. I realize this is going up much later than when I posted it from the UAE!
Beards made out of bees. You read that correctly. [HT Suzanne]
Here's a lovely video about Dubai (in support of their World Expo 2020 bid) that highlights some truly awesome things about the UAE. [HT Sana]
In case you ever need a handy reference guide: every meal consumed in Laura Ingalls Wilder's Farmer Boy. Food heaven.
If you find a way to get around the paywall and read this, please do: fifteen years after autism panic, a plague of measles erupts.
Forensic linguistics, doing its job, outing JK Rowling as the author of a new mystery novel.
First they award the 2022 World Cup to Qatar...then they seriously consider holding it in winter. And the football world goes CRAZY.
2013: the year that PG-13 broke. (Brief language warning in the context of discussing movie rating standards.) [HT Eric D. Snider]
In honor of my brother Steven, who just got a job at a Chipotle in NYC and is thus entitled to one free meal a day: there are 655,360 different burrito combinations possible at Chipotle.
LIBRARIES. [HT Suzanne]
In Royal Baby odds and ends: Project Normal Child, a brief history of royal childhoods, and the significance of Kate's new-mommy tummy. I have to say, as trivial as it may seem, I loved that last one. I am sorry that she couldn't leave the hospital in privacy, in sweats, but the fact that she wasn't afraid to show the world that hey, immediately after you have a baby, guess what? You still totally look pregnant. Bravo, Kate.
A day in the life of the target-market female. Hilarious. [HT Liz]
Beards made out of bees. You read that correctly. [HT Suzanne]
Here's a lovely video about Dubai (in support of their World Expo 2020 bid) that highlights some truly awesome things about the UAE. [HT Sana]
In case you ever need a handy reference guide: every meal consumed in Laura Ingalls Wilder's Farmer Boy. Food heaven.
If you find a way to get around the paywall and read this, please do: fifteen years after autism panic, a plague of measles erupts.
Forensic linguistics, doing its job, outing JK Rowling as the author of a new mystery novel.
First they award the 2022 World Cup to Qatar...then they seriously consider holding it in winter. And the football world goes CRAZY.
2013: the year that PG-13 broke. (Brief language warning in the context of discussing movie rating standards.) [HT Eric D. Snider]
In honor of my brother Steven, who just got a job at a Chipotle in NYC and is thus entitled to one free meal a day: there are 655,360 different burrito combinations possible at Chipotle.
LIBRARIES. [HT Suzanne]
In Royal Baby odds and ends: Project Normal Child, a brief history of royal childhoods, and the significance of Kate's new-mommy tummy. I have to say, as trivial as it may seem, I loved that last one. I am sorry that she couldn't leave the hospital in privacy, in sweats, but the fact that she wasn't afraid to show the world that hey, immediately after you have a baby, guess what? You still totally look pregnant. Bravo, Kate.
A day in the life of the target-market female. Hilarious. [HT Liz]