Table scraps:

♣SURELY, THERE MUST be a funny Yiddish word for a rabbi that leaves his wife and marries a former Russian Orthodox nun. Az di bobe volt gehat beytsim volt zi geven mayn zeyde! (Alright, so that actually means, "If my grandmother had testicles she would be my grandfather!" Irrelevant, but somehow perfect.)

♣BECAUSE NOBODY CAN get enough of cheap optical illusions, here's this one. And in a semi-related note, here's a bunch of neat illustrations.

♣WITH THEIR VIDEO for "A Million Ways," Chicago's OK GO proved themselves the best damn dancin' rock band this side of the sun. But this time, they've really outdone themselves.

♣PETER SAGAL, HOST of NPR's "Wait, Wait... Don't Tell Me!" may be great on radio, but he's not as good at picking fights at ballgames.

♣SAMUEL JACKSON CALLED me last week. No, really. The phone rang, I answered, and the bad motherfucker himself told me that I should be psyched to see his new movie, "Snakes on a Plane." And I am. But he seemed really busy, so we didn't talk much. Actually, come to think of it, he did all the talking. But whatever, I'm sure he was just busy.

♣IT'S HOT OUT. Clearly, you need a beer popsicle. (via TMN)

♣WHEN BOSTON'S PUBLIC transportation agency launched a survey, they made it amazingly easy to hack in to. So much so that I just had to write about it.

♣AND THEN, THERE'S this.

Posted by Jason Feifer at August 7, 2006 12:07 AM