Riffle

Rockbox Blackjack on the Clip I've been in transit a lot recently and therefore listening to even more MP3s than usual. I mainly rely on...

I'm (meaning Riffle is) a bit snowed under here, metaphorically. But McSweeney's does a service with this retro-view of Gizmodo-st...

If only ... The deil cam fiddlin' thro' the town, And danc'd awa wi' th' Exciseman, And ilka wife cries, "Auld Ma...

Roger Ebert says this 1980 piece of his featuring Milton Berle and Lou Jacobi hasn't been online until now . Berle: "I had a w...

= 1) She Wrote (-ish) a Book : I predicted ( with several good reasons ) that Palin's book would be rife with errors. Now that AP has o...

World Leaders in Berlin at the Fall of the Wall Celebrations 1) The celebrations on the 20th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall, w...

HBO's Bored to Death , which grew on me as the season progressed, just ended with another funny episode featuring guests John Hodgman, ...

I've drastically reduced shopping at Whole Foods. I had to stop there yesterday, though, for something only they sell. I decided to b...

I offer another ramble in the magnificent Old Bailey Archives . From 3rd July, 1771 trial of three men: William Leegroves and John Baili...

A teacher in Texas is suing to avoid being fingerprinted because, she asserts, fingerprints are the Mark of the Beast from Revelations. I...

from David Rees we have the URL Shortening Service for Twitter. http://www.URLShorteningServiceForTwitter.com/ for instance: http://www.url...

US Politics and Monty Python have collided in the real world. New Jersey gubernatorial candidate Chris Christie copied Python's "D...

I noted the paucity of good Halloween costumes in my previous post . Seems like I'm not alone. A fellow who has been charting self-ide...

Data points: Perhaps due to rain, the Halloween costumes encountered on my excursion were substandard. The best I saw was a group of six guy...

With There's No Business Like Show Business , God Bless America , Let's Face the Music and Dance (my favorite) and scores of ot...

Just rediscovered this boffo appreciative profile of Henry Morgan by Kliph Nesteroff at WFMU. Morgan is hardly mentioned nowadays but is,...

Corporate Director has to be the best job. Get paid gobs of money and have few tasks. Showing up at infrequent meetings is suggested but no...

" There once reappeared in the village of East Dennis on Cape Cod, a sea captain whose ship, which sailed from that part of the New Eng...

The new series of The Thick of It kicked off with the mainspring of conflict beginning to wind tightly. There's a new minister in t...

Turner Classic Movies aired Woody Allen's " Everything you always wanted to know about Sex (But Were Afraid To Ask) " last nig...