I can’t believe this is British. I’m consistently surprised by how casually Europeans drop references to American political and geographic arcana.  Long Island’s big, but not necessarily something I’d assume occupies real estate in the average Brit’s mind as a spatial reference.
Not a bad map, actually.  You can see West and East Eggs, the first [...]

This might be the worst thing yet.  There was that other thing, and it was a bad thing, about “applications for new businesses” in Gaza as an indicator the whole Middle East was getting better now, but this column might be the worst shitpile thusfar.
It’s about how Africa’s lack of wireless connectivity is hampering it [...]

My friend Alison works for Etsy and has begun a new blog for them, a compendium of assorted delightful oddities from around the world.
This week’s is particularly great.
The bus-cozy is one thing, but the figure sculpted from tobacco products is like a deranged Muppet.  I fucking love it.  It reminded me of this childhood gem:
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ZOMG.  The handle of the presumably ordained blogger is “Peacebang.”
I love:
No one but you needs to know that you’ll be PMSing during Holy Week or that you had heartburn during your entire stewardship campaign. It’s all for your own self-care and self-knowledge, lamb chops.
And
For as long as I’ve been writing this blog, I’ve been getting [...]

This is totally nothing new, but it’s totally my fave thing evah and nothing could better represent who I am and what I like.
Welcome to my home:
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Welcome to my parody:
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Magical.