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Two unplaced photographs:

“Doragazing”

“Markgazing”

Three comments on the photographs:

It’s not my couch.
It’s not my gecko.
It is, however, my t-shirt. It’s the major constellations in the night sky. It’s printed upside down, so that I can actually use it without taking it off. It glows in the dark. Really. I once had a t-shirt with Maxwell’s equations on it, too. Sure, they laughed. Loudly. And pointed. Pointedly. But look who got the girl.

One correction on the comments:

It’s not a gecko, it’s a bearded dragon. That is, according to Victoria, an alert reader who claims to have two of each (and would therefore, presumably, know the difference at a glance — a marketable job skill, no doubt, in some very specific job market for which I am woefully underqualified). She also called it cute, and suggested that the next time I am in the presence of said dragon, I should attempt to feed it grapes. No accounting for taste, as they say, but I’ll try to remember the bit about the grapes.

Four incredibly important stories:

The universe is turquoise. [via Kuro5hin.org]. For any computer buffs wishing to put the colour on their desktops, the red-green-blue values you will need are 0.269, 0.388 and 0.342.
Money actually can buy happiness. We find a very strong link between cash falling on you and higher contentment and better mental health in the following year.
Michael Barrish: How to burn soup. 1. Start with soup. I use canned, but any kind of soup will do. (Compare: how to sample Dave’s Insanity Sauce)
Publisher cleared in pop-up book trial. A folding error on page 27 caused a number of couples to inadvertently snap their partners spines when attempting that position.

Two awards (I actually get awards for this stuff):

Brian Andreas: You have to remember to make it all over again every day, the angel said to me. Otherwise it goes all to hell.

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