Headline and subhead from the Christian Science Monitor:
Monkeys hate flying squirrels, report monkey-annoyance experts
Japanese macaques will completely flip out when presented with flying squirrels, a new study in monkey-antagonism has found. The research could pave the way for advanced methods of enraging monkeys.
There are monkey-annoyance experts? Doing research into advanced methods of enraging monkeys?
A book on XML I’m reading today promises to give you a feel for the subject “without weeding through large amounts of information.”
Just opened up a box of Trader Joe’s organic cranberry green tea. The box says “15 biodegradable tea bags”, but on looking inside, I find that each of those biodegradable tea bags is individually sealed in clear plastic.
This is the screenshot up on the iTunes store for the ATYingHan English-Chinese Dictionary iPhone app:
The Society for Biomaterials’ “Biomaterial of the Month” for January was self reinforcing polyphenylene.
Top headline in today’s Daily Journal, a local paper in San Mateo County:
Death deemed suspicious
Man, 32, found fatally shot in his car in South San Francisco
From Jon Carroll’s column today:
Of course, if he’d been Duchamp, he would have slept in and later declared that his failure to appear was the lecture.
From the Grand Rapids News:
Man with horns tattooed on head charged in sex assault
Jeanette Winterson, reviewing a new biography of Patricia Highsmith in the New York Times:
She [Highsmith] collected snails, liking their portable hiding place and the impossibility of telling which was male and which was female. She traveled with snails in her luggage and kept hundreds at home. If she was bored at dinner parties, she might get a few snails out of her purse and let them loose on the tablecloth. As she didn’t eat much, she was often bored at dinner parties.
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