Archive for June 19th, 2007

Odd and end: One Tom Cruise equals 14 spider monkeys, property tax calculators are the new bikini babe photo galleries »

By William M. Hartnett on Jun 19, 2007 in newspapers, oddities | 0 Comments

Item 1: One Tom Cruise equals 14.17484673447 spider monkeys, to be more precise. This is but one of many amusing but unsubstantiated, totally spurious conversions you can make between two arbitrary and unrelated units of weight or height using weirdconverter.com. Please don’t release this into the wilds of your own newsroom, as some well-intentioned reporter [...]

Embarrassing confession: I learned about donks in The New York Times »

By William M. Hartnett on Jun 19, 2007 in newspapers, oddities | 5 Comments

Not to mention boxes and bubbles. I’m so out of touch with popular culture that the first time I saw the term “donks” was this weekend in The New York Times Magazine. See, now this is exactly the sort of thing that makes me appreciate the NYT Magazine so much, though that hardly mitigates the [...]