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2015

Amy, must I jujitsu my ma?

Starting yesterday and extending through next Tuesday, every date is a palindrome: 5/10/15, 5/11/15, 5/12/15, etc. So if your yin + more

Recommendation

If you’ve got a couple of minutes to kill online but dread the prospect of yet another misspelled meme on Facebook, Drexel University’s + more

Steady…

Seb Lester can draw seemingly any logo by hand. Is there a practical application for this talent of his? Who + more

“Listen to the river sing sweet songs…”

Fifty years ago today, the Warlocks plugged in their borrowed instruments at Magoo’s Pizza in Menlo Park, California. But it wasn’t + more

More Often than Not

OFF-uhn? Or OFF-tuhn? Here’s Paul Brians: People striving for sophistication often pronounce the T in this word, but true sophisticates + more

Where To Next?

Left to right: Mojo director of photography/editor/sound designer Kevin Graham, me, Avista marketing communications manager Colette Bottinelli (photograph courtesy of Mojo). You + more

Next Up: A Plague of Locusts

Remember Richard Dean Anderson? He starred in MacGyver, the 1980s TV show that chronicled “the adventures of a secret agent armed with + more

Has it really been that long?

In my lifetime, there have been 105 solar eclipses, the global supply of bananas per person has doubled, and the East + more

Stop! Grammar Time!

This is a delightful trip down the unlikeliest of rabbit holes: the contranymic nature of the word “no.” Occasionally, however, a + more

A Little Laughter on a Tuesday

McSweeney’s Honest College Rejection Letter is brilliant: You should also know that our committee did not fall for your attempts + more

BOOM!

Went for a stroll the other day and happened to pick up a copy of Clive James’s Poetry Notebook: Reflections on the + more

Maps

Our relationship with maps has always fascinated me. Whether in hard-copy or app format, we expect them to work correctly and be user-friendly. If not, + more

Prost!

Today is National Beer Day. Not that any of us needs an excuse to celebrate, but the backstory is here. If you’re + more

Words of Wisdom

From James Boswell’s Life of Johnson (1776): I gave [Johnson] an account of a conversation which had passed between me and + more

Local Boy Makes Good

I somehow missed the news that Gary Dahl, inventor of the Pet Rock, died a couple of days ago. The Spokesman-Review’s Doug + more

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