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Beauty is in the eye of the beholder, as long as it's not beholden in Philadelphia: Philadelphia is home to the least attractive people in the United States, a survey of visitors and residents showed on Friday [http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20071022/od_nm/philadelphia_unattractive1_

I don't know if I'm proud or embarrassed, but the description ain't unfair, though "one of the literati" is a stretch (ain't never read much of Melville or Conrad or a host of other of them fundermental reads): What Kind

Multitasking hurts your memory, creates stress, and costs time. That, according to Walter Kirn in the current issue of The Atlantic. The piece is clever, but far too jumpy (I think he was using his prose style to analogize to multitasking), and he didn't present enough facts. Still,

My favorite Belloc book: The Four Men. It's now available here [http://www.archive.org/details/fourmenfarrago00belliala]. Go to The Blue Boar to figure out how to find it [http://theblueboar.blogspot.com/2007/10/download-bellocs-four-men.html]. Intelligent observation from one of the commentators at The Blue Boar:

Hey, see that nifty ad on the right side? It's only $10 a month. The advertiser had to design the ad himself, but other than that, it's an easy and cheap way to reach over 2,000 different people a month. The next advertiser will go

No fair: He gets all the publishing breaks: Jesus of Nazareth, the new book by Pope Benedict XVI, has already sold more than 2 million copies, the official Vatican publisher has announced [http://www.cwnews.com/news/viewstory.cfm?recnum=53975].

On Monday, I referred to St. Therese Lisieux as "everyone's favorite saint." Foolish, and remarkably short-sighted, of me. That honor goes to today's saint: St. Francis of Assisi. The troubadour-turned-mendicant feast day is today, and everyone likes him, the holy and secular alike. He&

Meeting last night means little blogging today. I'm glad to see that Nepal is taking steps to stop nude mountain climbing [http://www.ananova.com/news/story/sm_2527933.html?menu=news.quirkies] because it offends the mountain god, and it's worth mentioning that everyone should

Things were better under the mob: Violent crime rose by more than 30% in Las Vegas and unincorporated Clark County last year. That's according to the latest figures from the FBI, which show double digit increases in rape, robbery, and aggravated assault between 2005 and 2006. [http://www.