I had read about Werner Herzog’s documentary Grizzly Man, which weaves his own footage with that of the dead bear watcher, although I never really made the effort to seek it out. But when it showed up on a DVD evening at a friend’s house, I wasn’t going to object. It is actually a beautifully made...

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What did the duck say to the cashier when he was buying Chapstick?

Put it on my bill.

I'm not too sure how this works. Some kind of infection. But Blue Girl requires me to acknowledge her comedic genius (which I am happy to do, especially if the joke is original; she doesn't say.)

Then I hav...

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I decided to give up on the Simplr theme and throw my lot in with Sandbox and its devotees, in particular a theme called Shades of Gray. It seems to do just about everything I want, which could be described as simple complexity. Or complex simplicity.¹ Either way, I quite like it the way it is, es...

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I’ve updated my software, but have not managed to get everything working exactly as before. Notably, no Photos on display. I’ll fix that as soon as I can. Meanwhile there's always the source.

We have stumbled into a world of which I was barely aware. Sure, I knew a bit about falabella horses, and chihuahuas and other tiny dogs. But over at The Other Place, Luigi's nine-word entry on mini-pigs has attracted more interest than anything else we have ever posted here before, at least in...

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