Two adjacent houses, seven miles apart | Price Tags

Imagine having to drive seven miles to get to your neighbor's house...

Two adjacent houses, seven miles apart | Price Tags

Harvard band dresses like security guards

The Princeton Band never had this problem...

Harvard band dresses like security guards: The Harvard band showed up at EnergySolutions Arena in Salt Lake City wearing nearly the same uniform as the security guards hired to protect the court.

Is the pope Catholic? | Brendan O’Neill | spiked

He gets the doctrine of papal infallibility wrong (as most do), but otherwise gets the problem right:

Is the pope Catholic? | Brendan O’Neill | spiked: In the back-slapping for Benedict we’re really witnessing the breathing of a mass, global sigh of relief that pretty much the last institution which elevates its own needs over the needs of its occupant, which demands unwavering, total, literally Christ-like commitment, has now allowed the reality of frailty to creep into its hallowed halls. Today’s fashionable allergy to the pope, and to the Catholic Church more broadly, is driven more by a petit-bourgeois disdain for firm commitment to a cause and belief in something bigger than ourselves than it is by a grown-up critique of Catholic theology.

The Pope Abdicates - NYTimes.com

Ross Douthat puts into words my unease at the Pope's retirement:

The Pope Abdicates - NYTimes.com: There is great symbolic significance in the fact that popes die rather than resign: It’s a reminder that the pontiff is supposed to be a spiritual father more than a chief executive (presidents leave office, but your parents are your parents till they die), a sign of absolute papal surrender to the divine will (after all, if God wants a new pope, He’ll get one), and an illustration of the theological point that the church is still supposed to be the church even when its human leadership isn’t at fighting trim, whether physically or intellectually or (for that matter) morally.

Genius: The Nickelback Story - Businessweek

I never understood the Nickelback hate bandwagon. I don't love them, but they don't seem particularly hateable to me...

Genius: The Nickelback Story - Businessweek

Buttersafe - Acoustic Guitar

Buttersafe - Acoustic Guitar

Made in the Bronx, Exiled From Manhattan and Queens, Statue Will Head to Brooklyn - NYTimes.com

"Civic Virtue" is by far the best sculpture in the neighborhood; it's a shame it's being taken away.

Made in the Bronx, Exiled From Manhattan and Queens, Statue Will Head to Brooklyn - NYTimes.com: The statue, known rudely as “Fat Boy” or “Rough Boy,” is about to become the best traveled public monument in city history, moving from the Bronx (where it was carved) to Manhattan (1922 to 1941) to Queens (1941 until the present) to Brooklyn, where it is to settle indefinitely in Green-Wood Cemetery.

Happy 35th, Atari 2600! | Games Blog - Yahoo! Games

Happy 35th, Atari 2600! | Games Blog - Yahoo! Games: October 14 marks the 35th birthday of the legendary game console, which landed with a bang in 1977. It wasn't the first home video game system -- that honor belongs to the Magnavox Odyssey -- but it quickly became the most widely adopted and set the standard for many, many years.
To celebrate the console that revolutionized home entertainment, we dug up 35 factoids you might not have heard about while you were busy playing Asteroids and Pitfall.

Outcry Scuttles Plan to Put Horse on Menu at M. Wells Dinette - NYTimes.com

Loved loved loved M. Wells. Glad it's open. Hate that he had to bow to anti-freedom zealots.

Outcry Scuttles Plan to Put Horse on Menu at M. Wells Dinette - NYTimes.com: M. Wells Dinette, the highly anticipated reincarnation inside MoMA PS1 of a celebrated Queens restaurant, has been open for only five days, but its chef and owners have already removed a controversial item planned for the menu.

The Last Psychiatrist: One Way Our Schools Are Training New Narcissists

The Last Psychiatrist: One Way Our Schools Are Training New Narcissists: What kind of school doesn't want a kid to stand up to a bully, especially when they're doing it to help someone else?

Oldest Living Princeton Undergraduate Dies | Mudd Manuscript Library Blog

I saw him at Reunions many times...

Oldest Living Princeton Undergraduate Dies | Mudd Manuscript Library Blog: Malcolm Warnock, the oldest known living Princeton undergraduate alumnus of all time, has passed away at the age of 107. Malcolm Roe Warnock was a part of the Class of 1925.

The CD, At 30, Is Feeling Its Age : The Record : NPR

The CD, At 30, Is Feeling Its Age : The Record : NPR: Today marks the 30th anniversary of a musical format many of us grew up with: the compact disc.

Shoebox - Chuck & Beans

This sounds about right...

Shoebox - Chuck & Beans

The Democrats think Romney just self-destructed by pointing out, um, THEIR ENTIRE STRATEGY | The Daily Caller

The Democrats think Romney just self-destructed by pointing out, um, THEIR ENTIRE STRATEGY | The Daily Caller: I can see why Democrats are so offended. How dare Mitt Romney say they’re dependent on the government? Only Democrats get to say they’re dependent on the government! Has everybody already forgotten “Julia”?

The Last Psychiatrist: The Harvard Cheating Scandal Is Stupid

Interesting take...

The Last Psychiatrist: The Harvard Cheating Scandal Is Stupid: So let me make my own counter-allegation: the students aren't guilty of cheating, the university is guilty of entrapment.

Bug - Closing Ceremonies

Bug - Closing Ceremonies

AmazingSuperPowers: Webcomic at the Speed of Light - Magic Camera

Spooky...
AmazingSuperPowers: Webcomic at the Speed of Light - Magic Camera

Former SAS soldier who took buttocks from Saddam Hussein statue has charges against him dropped | Mail Online

They saved Saddam's ass!

Former SAS soldier who took buttocks from Saddam Hussein statue has charges against him dropped | Mail Online: Officers arrested Nigel Ely after Iraqi officials claimed he had 'illegally removed cultural property'.

Bug - Boob Tube

Whoa, indeed... Bug - Boob Tube

Joe Posnanski at the Olympics – NBC Is Ignoring Twitter Diehards — And Rightfully So

Those of us with jobs are happy to see events time-delayed in prime time. Though would it kill NBC to have alternate prime-time Olympics programming on their other channels? I'm sick of swimming.

Joe Posnanski at the Olympics – NBC Is Ignoring Twitter Diehards — And Rightfully So: It feels like everyone is angry. But not everyone is. NBC isn’t doing a disservice to its viewers. It’s just ignoring the ones who don’t matter.

How NOT To Make Friends And Influence People | According To Hoyt

I seriously doubt most CEOs in this country agree with me politically, but why should I care? What's *far* more troubling are elected officials who believe they have the right to police people's thoughts. That's tyranny, folks.

How NOT To Make Friends And Influence People | According To Hoyt: What are you going to do for an encore? Go after every business in this country that’s owned by a religious person? Till – what? – everyone in the nation turns against you and buys a roll of duct tape to shut you up?

Wondermark #857; In which the Old is New Again

I'm going to have many conversations like this with my kids soon enough...

Wondermark #857; In which the Old is New Again

When the Olympics Gave Out Medals for Art | Smithsonian Magazine

Still makes far more sense than synchronized swimming.

When the Olympics Gave Out Medals for Art | Smithsonian Magazine: For his work, An American Trotter, Winans won the first ever Olympic gold medal for sculpture.

Buttersafe - Your Fortune

We had Chinese food last night. It was great, but not quite this full of intrigue...

Buttersafe - Your Fortune

chainsawsuit by kris straub - your new olympic mascots

The sad part is: that's really what Wenlock, the official mascot of the London Olympic games, looks like. No joke.

chainsawsuit by kris straub - your new olympic mascots