"On one hand, we'll get to see The Roots on TV every night; on the other hand, Black Thought opening for Jimmy Fallon every night is the cultural equivalent of Miles Davis playing his horn on the subway platform to back up a semi-trained dancing spider monkey." - Ethan Hein
"The Psychidae or Bagworms are a family of the Lepidoptera (butterflies and moths). The larvae of the Psychidae construct cases out of silk and environmental materials such as sand, soil, lichen, or plant materials." Looking for examples of non-human animals that extend their bodies into the environment. So far it's coral, beavers, termites, nesting birds and these guys. Also, wouldn't Snailcase Bagworm be a great Harry Potter character? - Ethan Hein
"If you were a prospective gag headline, you would probably feel about the writers' room at the Onion the way World War II soldiers felt about the view of Omaha Beach as the landing craft doors yawned open. By midafternoon on a Monday, at the paper's SoHo offices in Manhattan, the writers at America's most successful satirical newsweekly had mowed down somewhere in the neighborhood of 600 possible headlines in search of a dozen or so solid comic premises around which an issue of the paper would be built." - Ethan Hein
Can we not call him BO? It's unsuitable. Anyway, the campaign wisely used video game mechanics on their web site, and got a lot of normally uninvolved people involved. - Ethan Hein
Automatically makes via tags. This supposedly unbreaks the thing that the new Delicious broke, except it doesn't work on my machine. Hey Delicious team, how about doing this on every post by default? It would put a lot more social into your social bookmarking service. - Ethan Hein
I should also be reading this. Now that Flickr has colossal amounts of geographic metadata from everybody's cell phone cameras, what all are they doing with it? Making cool maps. - Ethan Hein
