almost absurdly cute: buzzfeed | The Quick Brown Fox Jumps Over the Lazy Dog

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Caring about grammar is cool!! Or anyway, if this thing keeps cycling the web, it will be soon. Continue reading

And I do. Madly. Here's a new feature: "Basically, when you're annoyed enough to mark a message as spam but not enough to go and unsubscribe from the mailing list, Gmail now offers to do the more time-consuming part for you." lifehacker.com | gmail offers to automatically unsubscribe you from mailing lists

Was Paris or Nicole the first? It's snowballed since. People who — if all was right in the world — I shouldn't know the names of: Sarah Palin, Lauren Conrad, now Carrie Prejean. Why, why, when there are so many incredibly talented women writers in the world who eminently deserve multi-million dollar book-deals, are companies paying professionally stupid women obscene amounts of money to "write" books?… Continue reading

Vanity Fair sics an executive editor, a factchecker, and a copyeditor on Palin's resignation speech. The result is pure art. vanity fair | palin's resignation: the edited version

In the meantime, look at how pretty the case I got to protect my darling is: speck products | fitted case

"I respect criticism, but I know more about film than most of the people writing about me. Not only that, I'm a better writer than most of the people writing about me. And I can write film criticism better than most of the people writing about me." _QT "But critical opinion on my films has always been salvaged by what I would call subsequent critical opinion.“ _SK… Continue reading

I've been blogging for over a decade. That's a really long time. Continue reading

A mid-year check-in on my "Things that need to go away in 2009" post, to see how much progress we've made as a culture. Continue reading

If Angela Chase taught me that not being cool in high school is okay, Daria taught me that the kids who are cool deserve, not my envy and admiration, but only scorn and derision. Both lessons were ones that I needed. jezebel.com | finally: daria to be released on dvd