Dvorsky's not in Scotland; Leahy's not dead

All sorts of weirder-than-usual messages are coming from legislators' private accounts. Do your homework before you plan to attend any funerals or send our good friend Senator Dvorsky cash to return home to Iowa!

Guys dig chicks with little feet.

Says this study. Thanks, Boing-Boing, for linking to this and making me confused about my plain-old-average-sized feet (or, interestingly, feet that I always thought were average...but it turns out they were average-sized a generation or two ago!).

[And so you know, when you type "average foot size" into Google, the first link to pop up is the Wikipedia entry for "human penis size."]

Internet Awesomeness: Catalog Living

This blog looks at pictures in catalogs and attempts to interpret the events that inspired them.

My favorite:

Elaine should have known better than to interrupt Gary during “apple time.”