Any of you using this?

Flavors.me. via.

Shout out to Blogger Hackers Hans and Ramani

For their Super Peek-A-Boo posts hack.

via Beautiful Beta.

What's Tina Fey Worth?

A heckuva lotta hits on this blog! Seriously, ever since she started protraying Sarah Palin, the random pics of her posted over the years have generated hundreds-thousands of hits a day around here. Portfolio's got it dead-on: Sign this woman to a movie deal!

Tag/Label Cloud

from phydeaux3.

Photoblog Update

Boston.com's Big Picture (not to be confused with the financial blog of the same name) has some spectacular photos, not just the previously mentioned Large Hadron Collider. See also Notions' Oceans new sidebar.

The Ocean of Notions & The Shah of Blah

...And in the depths of the city, beyond an old zone of ruined buildings that looked like broken hearts, there lived a happy young fellow by the name of Haroun, the only child of the storyteller Rashid Khalifa, whose cheerfulness was famous throughout that unhappy metropolis, and whose never-ending stream of tall, short and winding tales had earned him not one but two nicknames. To his admirers he was Rashid the Ocean of Notions, as stuffed with cheery stories as the sea was full of glumfish; but to his jealous rivals he was the Shah of Blah.

--Salman Rushdie, from Haroun and the Sea of Stories.

Rushdie is the greatest contemporary author; generations from now, high school English students will be forced to read him much like I was forced to read Steinbeck. Although had they not forced me to read Grapes of Wrath, I may have enjoyed it. I loved Dostoevsky despite having Crime & Punishment fed to me by a grandmotherly English teacher, so maybe I should say that future generations will discover Rushdie in spite of high school reading lists that will no doubt include Midnight's Children or The Moor's Last Sigh.

So that is what we're here for--to find all the good stories and watch them swim swirl together.

Colophon

The fit and finish of this blog wouldn't be what it is without the following scripts, widgets, and hacks. Thank you.

Label Cloud from phydeaux3.

Selective expandable post summaries from Beautiful Beta.

LibraryThing books widget from LibraryThing.

Zemanta blog plug-in.

Inaugural Post

Just to check the template/style.