A few things today -

• Firstly. "Eggcorns". That's what you call a turn of phrase turned wrongly, but that makes a new sort of sense. Eggcorns, for example. It's someone's mis-hearing of "acorns", but it makes sense because it is egglike, and it is like corn in that it is a seed. Or to use another of their examples, "to name a view." It sounds like "to name a few", but acquires new meaning.

• Secondly, a nice article summarizing why our generals just aren't very good.

• Thirdly, this:

Mickey Mouse has been blatantly ripped off to teach Palestinian children why it's ok to hate and kill Jews. And, well, everyone else.

• Fourthly, something about the gardens that started gardening - Persian gardens. I'd like to see some for myself. Shame they're in...Iran. And that I look conspicuously non-Persian. Heh. Well, I hear plenty of people there are hospitable, even if their government is not.

• Fifthly, and lastly for today, it looks like a comet killed ice-age critters, not us. The reason no one found an impact crater? There wasn't one. It exploded in the sky, over the ice sheet that covered Canada. That's why it's difficult to pin down just where the explosion was. (after the initial burst, everything burst into flame and a great conflagration destroyed more or less everything on the continent.)