This is kind of pathetic:

When is a Starbucks not a Starbucks? When it's a 15th Avenue Coffee and Tea.

The ubiquitous coffee-shop giant is dropping the household name from its 15th Avenue East store on Capitol Hill, a shop that was slated to close at one point last year but is being remodeled in Starbucks' new rustic, eco-friendly style.

It will open next week, the first of at least three remodeled Seattle-area stores that will bear the names of their neighborhoods rather than the 16,000-store chain to which they belong.

Jessica, I think you might need an outsider to taste it as well, so I'll come to NY and help you. I wouldn't want you to suffer by yourself.

Such selflessness must be rewarded...with ice cream!

I am happy to be compensated in such a way for damn near anything, really.

So I was scrolling, and I read this:

I was just watching an episode of Science's top 100 discoveries, and they mentioned the guy who discovered sperm. For the first time I am led to wonder about how that little discovery came about. Like, was he using his own spunk?

And then there was other stuff and then this:

Jessica, I think you might need an outsider to taste it as well

Er.

I'm having Ethiopian food for lunch (will also have for dinner). nom nom nom.

Rupert Everett on the sidewalk beside me for a block and a half over lunch.

msbelle, you might want to check out the Lucy exhibit in Times Square. Along with the original Lucy bones, it has other artifacts from Ethopia, and all proceeds go to the Ethiopian Ministry of Culture.

Thinking about the moon landing, and a couple of weeks ago was the 40th anniversary of Stonewall, it's got me thinking about how much the world really was changing right then. It must have been terrifying!

If I had some time alone I might go, I cannot imagine convincing mac to go.

It must have been terrifying!

Assassinations, riots, protests, leaving the planet--yeah.

Some cool NASA photos in honor of Apollo 11: [link]