“begobblement” – the act of being eaten – is not a word. But it should be.

I’ve added a new goober over in the far right rail called “recommended reading.” The idea came from my old pal Chuck Taylor, who’s involved in an interesting experiment up in Seattle called “Crosscut“. More on that later (I had an interesting visit with Chuck, and I’m intrigued by what they’re attempting), but the easy …

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World potato photography contest launched

I’ve been thinking a lot lately about the question of what a “journalist” actually is, and how what I do in print differs from what I do on line, and also how it differs from what others do on line who one might not traditionally think of as journalists, but who are doing things that …

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I love Belshaw. I love baseball. Therefore, I love Belshaw on baseball. Then from behind us, two rows up, comes this gravelly, hard-core South Side Chicago White Sox voice: “Show me da flag! Show me da flag! Show me da flag! Show me da flag! Show me da flag!”

Apropos of nothing: (The signature is not clearly and distinctly “Wolfowitz” but, then, few people’s signatures are clear and distinct. The first part is obviously “P. Wolfo…” and the end looks like a “z”, Which leaves us to fill in the “wit”.)

In three months, I made $6.68 from Google AdSense ads. Not enough to compensate for the way it made Inkstain look butt-ugly. It’s gone.

Inkstain Google search string of the day: are loading docks required on new commercial buildings (Here’s what they found. Hope it was useful.)