Category: Cool links

Encyclopedia of Television

Yes, such a thing exists. Did you know, for instance, that “Sale of the Century” was the most popular Australian game show? Or that a show called “Z Cars” had the most episodes (667) of any weekly British crime drama?…

Because finding fault is what we do

Check out the Top 25 slip-ups at slip-up.com Choice tidbit: In the 1631 edition printing of the King James Bible, in Exodus 20:14, a very small word was forgotten by the printers. The word “not”. This changed the 7th commandment…

8-minute dating revisited

Tequila Mockingbird is at it again. Loved this wonderful aside on her comments page: there must be something in the marketing material that these men interpreted differently. they seem to be under the impression that the 8 minutes represents an…

D.L. and the bear

Sorry, but celebrity encounters with huge hairy beasts are too precious to ignore.

Good news about brave U.S. troops

They stood firm in a hurricane to guard the Tomb of the Unkown Soldiers. (There are about 25 punchline opportunities here that I am avoiding because I’m a patriotic American).

All meat, all the time

Jen posts to the new blog of a friend who has given up the news biz and run off to cooking school.

Never pole vault alone

Ken Stone has a post that tells why. This link hasn’t much to do with newspaper editing but a lot to do with the coolness of blogging. I check all my editors’ blogs for links every day or so. Ken’s…

Useful fact about the Amish

Young males traditionally throw tomatoes at passing vehicles. And in the grand American tradition of wise use of firearms, an Amish man will be shotgunned to death for said transgressions.