My favourite NZ place names: Ohai, Cape Turnagain, Doubtful Sound, and Abut head.

A couple of days ago I made piri piri tofu from here. Point A is when I should have eaten it. Point B is when I actually ate it.

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"Contrary to popular belief, some of the most influential British punk rock recordings of the 1970s were not sloppy, primitive affairs, but ambitious, meticulously crafted studio productions.^{[citation needed]}"

• Wikipedia believes you, millions wouldn't

Students are flooding back to colleges across the country this weekend, and, as Mom and Dad pull away from the dorm-side curb, their kids are unpacking clothes, books, toaster ovens... and, in a few cases at least, swine flu.

Ah, NPR. You make me laugh.

"Mooom, did you double-bag the swine flu? My Hendrix vinyl is all sticky!"

When all you have is a Leatherman, everything looks like a bolt, or a small screw, or a large screw, or a bottle top, or something that has a rough surface, is insufficiently levered up, or that needs cutting in some way.

Google News results for articles making the "take a bite out of Apple" joke in the last two weeks: about 12.

delicious.com, you used to be cool.

Bill Clinton just showed up unannounced in North Korea, met with Kim Jong-il, and rescued two journalists who had been sentenced to twelve years' hard labour for illegally crossing the border.

How cool is that? It's like something out of The Simpsons. I imagine he arrived wearing cowboy boots and handed out American flags to the guards.