This screen capture — a Google News summary from Thursday morning, July 2, 2009 — demonstrates that, a mere days after the death of Michael Jackson, people struggle to capture the man’s essence. Perhaps some time, years from now, historians will make sense of the phenomenon:
When I was a teenager, I made a commitment to read every book in the Searsport, Maine library. that’s not as daunting as you might think, given the small size of the library. I started in at ‘A’ and proceeded to nearly the middle of ‘A’. I read some awful crap and realized that just because someone invested a lot of time and energy in writing a book, didn’t mean that it was worth any of my time reading it.
So writes Earle Rich of Granite Geek
The story of Man is a simple, yet complex tale. An anthropological web site gathers new info daily. Here are a few recent tidbits:
Man made appointment, then robbed tanning salon, police say
Man Sues Club After Being Hit in the Nose by Stripper’s Shoe
Man arrested for 190th time in Florida
Man gets shaggy eyebrows shaved for charity
Man’s alcohol-fueled attack on his door leads to arrest for pot possession
(Thanks to investigator Stefanie Friedhoff for bringing this to our
attention.)
The Second Annual Clerihew Contest has just begun, run, for fun, by Robin Abrahams, the Improbable Research’s psychology editor and more notably, author of the Miss Conduct advice column. Last year’s winning entry was (and still is:
Tim Berners-Lee
Invented HTTP
Thus the World Wide Web was born
For Nigerian Diplomats and porn.
The 2009 winning clerihew will be announced on July 10.
Investigator Laura W. Deland says she collects links to photographs of “penguin poo depressurizing penguins” (the physics of which was honored with an Ig Nobel Prize in 2005). She recommends this one:
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