February 27, 2008

Roundup

William F. Buckley Jr. died this morning. He was famous for hating the Beatles and for unifying the conservative intellectual movement in the 1950s. (Five bucks says Fox News will not trash his legacy in their videobituary.)

Wired tells how Google got its colorful logo.

Send: The Essential Guide to Email for Office and Home aims to be the Strunk & White of email composition. A review.

A 16-foot python devoured a family dog whole, in front of two children, ages 5 and 7. Three things of note:

  1. It “stalked” the dog for “days”.
  2. There is an Australian Venom Zoo.
  3. The penultimate sentence: “The snake was still digesting the dog at the zoo Wednesday.”

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