Notes

Hard to tell if this is serious or a joke but boiled down (“promote, promote, promote”) it makes sense: 3 business models that always work for everybody

Great photos of a bizarre Japanese theme park with dioramas showing the various stations of Buddhist hell. Juergen Specht – Ojoyushu

BT has a phone conferencing system called “MeetMe.” I was rendered nearly speechless with giggles when the automated system greeted me with a chirpy female voice saying, “Welcome to BTMeetMe!”

“… if everybody really did read and write and listen to a ton of poetry in a single month, American productivity would go down the drain, and our economy’s already got enough trouble as it is.” Can Reading Poetry Ruin Your Career?

You can finally stop converting all of your GIF files to PNG: the last Unisys patents have expired. GIF is NOW finally free

Talk about a hard knock life: He spent life picking himself up (via null)

You geeks with your puny HDTV sets think 1080p is sharp? Try 4320p (with 7680 pixels in each horizontal row): BBC | Europe gets glimpse of HD future

San Francisco literary festival October 6-14: Litquake » The Festival

Now that Talk Like a Pirate Day is over, Clara and I are wondering: When is National Talk Like a Parrot Day?

Growth is inevitable, therefore, it “should be channeled into already urbanized areas.” Thoughtful ideas here: Coastsider: Letter: Smart Growth and the Coastside

Sept 14 is World Hearing Voices Day: Can hearing voices in your head be a good thing?

Ben Schott, author of the entertainingly eclectic Schott’s Food & Drink Miscellany, charts the past 5 years: Five Years of Consequence