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http://www.doonesbury.com/strip/dailydose/index.html?uc_
full_date=20050222 “So you don’t care if the recording industry tanks?” “No, we need a new model … A post-pop star model, where music is free, and performers make a modest living through touring!” (See following strips.) 07:11

http://www.harpers.org/OutOfIraq.html Renting a house in Baghdad. 00:52

http://www.straightdope.com/columns/050218.html ”Do intravenous sedatives act instantly?” (re: Vinvent Vega stabbing Mia Wallace in Pulp Fiction.) 04:46

http://slate.com/id/2113924/ 01:26

http://www.burj-al-arab.com/tennis/ 18:49

http://newyorker.com/talk/content/index.ssf?050228ta_talk_
remnick Obituary for The New Yorker’s one-time Grammarian, Eleanor Gould. “Miss Gould once found what she believed were four grammatical errors in a three-word sentence.” 09:46

http://slate.com/id/2113810/ Meghan O’Rourke’s take on the Larry Summers girls-vs.-boys episode. It’s better than William Saletan’s, which suffers from an excess in confidence. 04:25

http://slate.com/id/2113746/ Wow, it’s amazingly difficult to report your identity stolen. 09:24

http://www.improveverywhere.com/mission_view.php?mission_
id=46 An unauthorised bathroom attendant visits the Times Square McDonald’s… 03:23

http://www.viceland.com/issues_uk/v3n2/htdocs/poster.php The Vice Guide to Picking Up Chicks. (The US version has a link to a pretty PDF version.) Personally, I wouldn’t say that black people “fuck up” biggish words, but I guess Vice know what they’re doing… 00:49

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/4272689.stm The Vatican is offering exorcism lessons. 20:31

http://www.livejournal.com/users/miss_mcdonald/ Pictures of a lass dressed up as Ronald McDonald. Unsettling! Also, she’s in the Philippines—does this make it better or worse?? 07:07

http://www.macleans.ca/culture/media/article.jsp?content=20050221_
100566_100566 On the trend towards more and more product placement in TV. “ That means we’d end up with two tiers of television—pay TV and free TV—with the free stuff functioning as a kind of Muzak, an inoffensive backdrop for commercial messages.” (This piece also claims that Seinfeld’s Pez, Snapple, Snickers and Junior Mints episodes weren’t the result of product placement deals.) 06:58

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/4264913.stm “Gay rights activists have protested at a north German zoo’s plans to test the sexual orientation of six male penguins which have displayed homosexual traits.” (Seems like one of the more benign forms of animals testing, really.) 05:40

http://slate.com/id/2113358/ “Stupidity as a Firing Offense,” in which Dahlia Lithwick argues that you can’t retract tenure, even to idiots like Ward Churchill, ends with the correction that he attended Sangamon State University, not Sangaman State University—even though Sangaman is what his official bio says… (Also, does the first sentence of that J.S. Mill quote actually make sense to anyone?) 11:44

http://flickr.com/photos/tags/goatse 00:56

http://www.abc.net.au/news/newsitems/200502/s1298590.htm Great headline: “Gangland trial witness admits no hitman experience.” 20:25

http://slate.com/id/2112962/ On the decline of secularism in France. A French politician suggests the state fund mosques; a 1905 law stopped the state giving money to churches, but since it had been doing exactly that for hundreds of years, Christians already had nice plots of land for their churches and plenty of money—neither of which Muslims have. (Although in some cases, the sheer number of churches probably amount to a burden on the church. Last year, in Dijon, I wanted to see how many churches I could run to in five minutes, and film this with my camera. But I left the battery in London, sadly…) 22:52