smonster, those are great! Hee. I love the giant Jayne hat, as I now roll my eyes at the million Jayne hats I see at cons. At least that version is clever.

Radical Militant Librarian tee

Just ran into a Norwegian librarian at Internet Librarian International in London wearing this killer tee-shirt, created in protest of the PATRIOT Act's provision to force librarians to reveal which books their patrons were checking out. The Latin translates as "We know what you read, and we're not saying."

I believe many libraries have stopped keeping records of what patrons have checked out to circumvent the government asking for said records. "What records? Our hard drive crashed last week, and we decided that keeping those records was too much of a strain on our computers. If you wanted to up our funding so we can upgrade the systems, now . . ."

Um... how could anyone think this was a good idea?

Linda Brown, Ohio Woman, Pretends To Win Lottery, Causes Riot At Store

COLUMBUS, Ohio — A woman being driven around in a rented limousine pulled up at a coat store and announced she'd won the lottery and would pay for everyone's purchases, police said, but she ended up causing a riot when customers realized it was a hoax.

Angry customers threw merchandise around and looted, leaving the store looking as though a hurricane had passed through it, police said.

Linda Brown was arrested Tuesday after an hours-long shopping spree that began when she hired a stretch Hummer limousine to drop her off at a Burlington Coat Factory store, police Sgt. Lt. Michael Deakins said. Brown walked to a cash register and loudly announced she had won the lottery and would pay for each person's merchandise up to $500, he said.

"Well, of course, people like to hear that," Deakins said. "Apparently they were in line calling relatives who were not at the store and told them to come."

People flooded the registers as cashiers began ringing up purchase after purchase, but Brown had not yet paid the bill, Deakins said. At least 500 people filled the aisles and another 1,000 were outside trying to get in, he said.

"She was telling people she won $1.5 million," Deakins said. "But it ends up she didn't win anything. She had no money to pay for anything."

Bats for Allyson. And Jilli. And everyone else!!

does Jilli have a "The only thing we have to fear is fear itself...and spiders." t-shirt? saw one and thought of her.

not sure why I am speaking of you as if you aren't here though. sorry.

ION - my boss is about to leave for the day. omg will lose tiny ounce of motivation I have.

That woman has a long history of mental illness. But I've been in that store and I'm not surprised about the riot.

This is lovely:

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Authorities were scouring the skies Thursday for a 6-year-old boy who reportedly unhooked his family's experimental balloon-powered aircraft and floated away from home, sheriff's officials said.

I so would have gone off in a balloon mobile.

Lock it up, dipshits!

ION, Linda Thorson is still looking good and back to modeling.