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This is one of the cleverest things I've seen in a while.

The back story is that the assistant head of English at Park Hall needed the red hand truck (that's a "porter's trolley", for those who don't get the American dialect), and asked for its return:

We're looking for an errant red hand truck. Anybody borrowed it or seen it? Thanks. --Mike

The word "errant" sparked a flood of responses spoofing famous poems.

I can't resist, and I apologise in advance to the memory of Ogden Nash.

Lost hand truck
Is bad luck
But mimic
Is comic.

This op-ed from The Age is a very interesting read.

It mentions two themes from the modern world: a decline in organised religion, and a view that death is unnatural. The mix results in a rise in the supernatural in our fiction, particularly with that part that deals with death.

Scientists create glow-in-the-dark cats.

I find this just a little bit creepy. See after the jump as to why.

Okay, I'm about to give you a link. Some of the images there are not safe for work. Most of them are just plain not safe for your eyes at all. Consider yourself warned.

Without further ado: The Museum of Bad Album Covers.

Here is one newspaper article.

Here's another.

Which one is the parody and which one is real?

It's not often you open the newspaper to find an opinion piece from someone you know. Still, here it is: Playing hooky never gets old, by Clare Boyd-Macrae.

Clare almost certainly doesn't read this blog, but just in case, some advice that's worth exactly what you paid for it: Next time you're playing hooky, it's probably better not to do it the week before the large yearly conference that you're in charge of. Or, failing that, do something really nice.

Very well put.

Being Australian, I never had the pleasure of seeing Jerry Falwell in action. The "moral majority" is really something, and it's something that people outside the US cannot comprehend.

Nevertheless, I feel like I should note his passing. So I leave you with this obituary, by someone he has truly hurt, and yet is able to forgive. Would that we all could.

Lynne Truss, possibly my favourite Grumpy Old Woman, finally has her own site.

For those who haven't had the pleasure, Lynne is on a vendetta. Well, several, actually. In Eats, Shoots & Leaves, it's bad punctuation. But it's not because she's a snob. It goes much deeper than that...