The latest wireless device

Zorg sends word of the newly patented cordless jump-rope. But I think it would make Double Dutch very difficult.

Edward Gorey cats (jewelry)

For those of you who delight in the artwork of Edward Gorey, there's the Gorey Details website, with all sorts of great tschotkes, including jewelry based on his cats. Here's a picture of the "Hanging Cat" necklace.

Laugh, then cry

This photo from The Republic newspaper was taken at a May 20 Indiana rally supporting making English the official language of the US.

The Blogger's Paradox

The Blogger's Paradox is described by Josh Millard:

All else being equal, if you have anything interesting to say, you're too busy to say it; and conversely, if you have time to blog, you probably have jack squat to show for it.

Magic five

Enjoy Merlin's Lists of Five Things, including

• Five things I suspect I'm not supposed to think about when watching those bands with messy hair who sound like Joy Division


• Five favorite moments on a given commerical airline flight


• Five TV commercials that haunted me as a child


• Five terrible fake names for James Bond movies

Comments are closed over at Merlin's but feel free to post your favorite fives here in the comments section. Here's one of mine:

Five radio commercials that haunted me as a child

• WTOP's commercial for the Moon Palace restaurant, in which a loud gong sounded with the word "moon"
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• WTOP's commercial for Northwest Orient Airlines, which also had a gong (between "Orient" and "airlines")


• The 1968 Delta Airlines commercial with the singers purring "Delta is ready when you are" (somehow, I can't imaging them using that today)


• A 1970s commercial for a car racetrack on Boston AM radio in which the word "speedway" echoed several times


• Cape Cod radio commercials that used seagull cries in the background