Table scraps:

♣MAN (AND WOMAN)'S best friend looks amazingly like man and woman. But what kind of dog would this guy be?

♣I DO LOVE a good case of somebody making "statements against their judicial interest" -- that is, the (I think) legal term for "being an idiot." A good example, as this guy shows, is bragging to police that you sell drugs while they're arresting you for something unrelated.

♣OK, SO WE know Jenny's phone number -- 867-5309 -- but what area code is it in? One person goes hunting. (And other people, well, they're more interested in calling Ol' Dirty Bastard.)

♣HERE'S SOMETHING I bet this guy didn't count on: A hooker he brought home one night called police to alert them to his massive and disturbing child porn collection.

♣SALON RAN AN article Saturday by "danah boyd," and I wondered if perhaps someone forgot to capitalize her name -- and then, on second thought, worried that someone who hasn't grown out of an ee cummings phase actually convinved the magazine to leave her byline unformatted. Her personal site confirms the latter. She makes a semi-reasonable argument for keeping her name lower-case, but, well, it's still not very convincing. Grammar isn't the Man trying to keep you down; it's there for uniformity and professionalism. You want to make up your own rules? That's great -- go publish a punk rock zine. The professional publishing world shouldn't have to look silly by accomidating you, though.

♣TWO SELF-INDULGENT notes: First, it appears the New Times actually did decide to run my letter -- oh, only a month after it should have! And second, this blog was mentioned in a California newspaper column late last month. Hooray for free publicity!

Posted by Jason Feifer at January 10, 2005 10:30 AM