How can you fear this man? PUPPIES TRUST HIM! PUPPIES!
[via Metafilter, via cheesedip] I have a friend who is trying to get over her fear of David Hasselhoff.
I try to help wherever I can, and here’s the next part of the cure: The
Hoff Calendar [543K, Microsoft Word Document, enclosure], [...]

Now that I’ve got house-hunting on the brain, oddities that would have
otherwise escaped my notice now present themselves to me. Case in
point: consider the little Seattle “fixer-upper” pictured below,
asking price almost US$250K (CAD$304,194 at today’s exchange rate):

If this place is going for $250K, I live [...]

I have received a couple of emails asking me to contribute my two cents to the “white male” debate about the blogosphere. Since I’m a little tied up doing actual work, I shall simply direct you to this entry about BloggerCon 1.

Notify Ethan Zuckerman and the rest of the editors of Bacontarian: a couple from West Yorkshire, England, have eschewed the traditional flour-based wedding cake for the meatier, Atkins-friendlier, porkier porkpie cake:

Treyf-a-licious!
Since pork upsets Wendy’s stomach and our wedding ceremony will be a
Jewish one, the odds for my [...]

Speaking of house-hunting, here’s an amusing real estate ad I’ve been saving for just such an occasion:

While surfing around, I found some interesting material I thought you folks might enjoy:

How Lisa Came to Israel, Part 6:
Back in January, I pointed you to Lisa’s blog, which had the first five
installments of the story of how she ended up moving from Canada to
Israel. She’s been busy, but [...]

For my wedding, I considered going with the basic “monkey suit”
option…for approximately twenty seconds. I thought I’d go with
something that was both traditional and unusual (at least in this
corner of the world) and wear the traiditonal Filipino formal wear, a Barong Tagalog, which is often shortened to “barong”. When [...]