Mmm … wild caught salmon …

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This was in my inbox … if you like salmon, I hope you'll give them a try! Hi Friends, After a great summer of fishing, Ryan is home from Bristol Bay and we are ready to share our catch!  This year we are proud to introduce our new business – FishWife Salmon – and hope all of you will forward this offer onto your friends and family so we can share FishWife Salmon with everyone.   We are offering four different Wild Alaskan Sockeye Salmon options: 2 packages of 2 (5-9oz each) portions and 2 fillets: $55 — A good intro to FishWife Salmon 3 packages of 2 (5-9oz each) portions and 4 fillets: $95 — Most Read more…

Poor Koopas

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via agentmlovestacos.com It’s the 25th anniversary of Super Mario Brothers. If you’ve played the game, or any of it’s successors, I think you’ll enjoy this. via frinklin.

Matthew Yglesias “on Koran-Burning”

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Now all that said, it’s kind of nuts, isn’t it, that we have the general in charge of an ongoing war commenting on some guy in Florida being a jerk. Even nuttier is that he might well be right that this episode will endanger the lives of Americans soldiers. But that really raises deeper issues about Afghan society and the wisdom and nature of America’s engagement with it. The essence of a digital, globalized world with billions of inhabitants is that there’s always going to be some jerk somewhere doing something ridiculous. “Guy in Florida deliberately trying to antagonize Muslims” Read more…

“Put it in English!” My campaign against jargon

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At a recent meeting for Metro Parks, the Director of the Zoo mentioned something about the zoo's "charismatic mega-vertebrates." As in walruses and polar bears and tigers. Charismatic mega-vertebrates, if you are a zookeeper, is a very useful classification. It describes a certain kind of animal that crosses biological distinctions of taxonomy: ie, big animals people want to see. But outside of that particular setting, the jargon makes absolutely no sense. I wouldn't tell you in normal conversation that you should get to the zoo to see the baby charismatic mega-vertebrates. They're baby tigers. Calling them anything else would be Read more…