News You Can Bruise for 2002 July 31

Lame Onion editorial of the future: 10 paragraphs from someone wondering why a nice guy like Smithers (from The Simpsons) isn't married.

A double whammy for Jason, with The Jury Did It premiering here on crummy.com, and his Sumeria presentation now available from dig.tigris.org.

Interesting, obvious-in-retrospect vocabulary tidbit from Kevin: the singular of "qualia" is "quale".

<kmaples> I remember I was working at tower before nevermind came out
<kmaples> we (the buyers) got these pre-release packets for the album
<kmaples> in there was the assurance 'note - nirvana is extremely accessible'

Leonard micromarketing (someone else use the micro-x construction or my trend prediction will fall apart! Mickey Kaus, call your office!): a member of the UCLA LUG, who probably came in after I graduated since I've never heard of him, made O'Reilly book covers for the members of the LUG. Nobody will find this interesting except me, but whose weblog is this? That's right, it's mine. Mine, I tell you!

Of slightly more general interest, Dan Helfman drew some cartoons.

It's also interesting to see what happened to the half-painted mural.

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