Oh, our dalmatian would be the happiest dog in the world if she could wear a dog caftan.

Oh! That's right! I remember pictures you have posted of her. So funny.

US private sector shed 742,000 jobs in March: ADP

ugh, yeah, I just found out another friend of mine was laid off yesterday. Fortunately, her boyfriend who works for the same company kept his job.

That's about the population of Baltimore County.

Pride and Prejudice and Zombies: adding much-needed zombies to the Austen classic

A review. The reviewer doesn't like Jane Austen.

I couldn't finish it. But I expect if you were the kind of person who loves both Austen and zombies, this book would just plain knock your socks off.

But check this out:

And Quirk Books, the publisher of P&P&Z, was kind enough to give us an exclusive link to the first three chapters online for free, so you can make up your own mind

First three chapters of Pride and Prejudice and Zombies

I don't think the book is on sale yet.

The Guardian moving from print version entirely to Twitter-based version: [link]

Spring is here!

US private sector shed 742,000 jobs in March: ADP

it is so wrong that news like this makes me work avoidant....and yet, that is the exact effect.

The Guardian moving from print version entirely to Twitter-based version: [link].

Heh.

A mammoth project is also under way to rewrite the whole of the newspaper's archive, stretching back to 1821, in the form of tweets. Major stories already completed include "1832 Reform Act gives voting rights to one in five adult males yay!!!"; "OMG Hitler invades Poland, allies declare war see tinyurl.com/b5x6e for more"; and "JFK assassin8d @ Dallas, def. heard second gunshot from grassy knoll WTF?"

I love how the Guardian article ends:

According to unconfirmed rumours, Jim Buckmaster, the chief executive of Craigslist, will next month announce plans for a new system of telepathy-based social networking that is expected to render Twitter obsolete within weeks

I don't think the book is on sale yet.

It's out. I saw it at Booksmith yesterday.

Heh. From the Obama/BSG/Onion article:

"When we spoke last month, he said season three was his least favorite because some of the episodes with Helo and the Sagittarons—and pretty much anything that involved Cally—were boring and didn't advance the plot," Afghan president Hamid Karzai said. "But I told him that when you watch it all on DVD, and you don't have to wait a whole week for a new show, those peripheral episodes actually add new color to the already established world."

I know we've said things like that about BtVS S7.