This will be a huge boon for photographers and artists looking to protect their copyrights : TinEye is an image search engine. Give it an image and it will tell you where the image is duplicated on the web. This rocks : Second graders at PS 178 in Holliswood, Queens (that's Jamaica Estates, where Donald Trump's family is from ,) put on a fund-raiser to save musician John Coltrane's family home...

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(thanks to the redoubtable supergee , who keeps turning me on to great new-to-me blogs)

I can no longer access LJ at work -- it's been put on the banned list. Not that I ever had much time for it at work anyway, but used to be able to read a little while eating lunch at my desk. But now, nuthin'. Which means I still haven't caught up with the posts I missed while we were on the road at the beginning of July. Whenever I do get some time to read LJ, I skim quickly and hardly ever comment...

I can no longer access LJ at work -- it's been put on the banned list. Not that I ever had much time for it at work anyway, but used to be able to read a little while eating lunch at my desk. But now, nuthin'. Which means I still haven't caught up with the posts I missed while we were on the road at the beginning of July. Whenever I do get some time to read LJ, I skim quickly and hardly ever comment...

John McCain made an appearance at the STURGIS BIKE RALLY in South Dakota on Monday , where he offered to volunteer his wife, Cindy, as a contestant in a topless beauty pagent run by bikers. No, really! Indeed, McCain felt so comfortable at the event that he even volunteered his wife for the rally’s traditional beauty pageant, an infamously debauched event that’s been known to feature topless...

Despite antibiotics, my ear hurt more yesterday than the day before--in fact, great owie ensued. I talked to my vet GP, and he said doesn't sound like this (I could have a bad tooth, and that could be involved, but usually it's an upper tooth), doesn't sound like that (I do have great muscle tension in my neck, leading to aches, but the pain is way inside my ear), better come in. Oh, and he's not...

Orson Scott Card, that fine writer of the Ender books who is also a Mormon with, to my mind, very bizarre politics, seems to have actually gone over the deep end . I know it's not a new stance for him, but geez louise. Homosexuality is a "tragic genetic mixup" and "sex-role disfunction." He's not a homophobe because hey, he doesn't hate homosexuals to the point of wishing to kill them. But the...

A fabulously articulate Unitarian responds to yesterday's shooting in Knoxville , which occurred at Tennessee Valley UU Church. (thanks to supergee for pointed to this - I really enjoyed reading it)

Via supergee : "Most collectors whose libraries we bought were dead years before libraries came to us, so the only way we could judge the level of eccentricity in the collectors was the books themselves, or from other evidence... "An Orientalist named Paul Linebarger, whose father, we were told, had been Sun Yat-sen's lawyer, had absolutely wonderful books, but he had other things too. He...