TRUTH IN ADVERTISING(?)

Thanks to Wanda Wisdom for this funny art!

WORD TO YOUR MOTHER

Well, not really, but I thought I was funny that my mom (who now has a blog for school) told me about Wordle (here). It is a site that scans other sites (of your selection) and makes "word clouds" from the random words on that site. Here is one for this blog:

Kinda cool.

UM... OK

JUST FOR THE RECORD

I love this stuff.

Here's the groovy commercial:

#@*&$ THE STOCK MARKET

Three headlines from today's business section:

After losing its first profit in nearly 23 years, Microsoft stock went up.

After reporting a loss in sales, Cheesecake Factory stock went up.

After reporting the largest profit and rise in members ever, Netflix stock went... down.

RANDOM FACTOID #227

The NBC 1980s television show 227, developed as a star vehicle for Jeffersons actress Marla Gibbs, was adapted from a play about a group of women in Chicago in the 1950s. (For more about 227, click here.)

RANDOM FACTOID #437

The technical, medical name for an itchy spot is punctate pruritus.

RANDOM FACTOID #223

At the time of the last know research survey (1999-2000), Ireland's adult literacy rate was 100%.

HERE WE GO (AGAIN)

There's another Mercury in Retrograde coming up, next month. You can read more about it (if you're in to that sort of thing) here.

HAPPY FAT TUESDAY