Zip, zap, zoop

Or, the brain flutters hither, thither, and yon.

Neat: kids are making math local and relevant with the national math trail.

My dentist told me my teeth have "persistent calculus." I wish my brain did; I need to review it.

I find it odd how the Boston police blog uses "pronounced" for "declared dead." Not "pronounced dead," just "pronounced." Such as, the man arrived at the hospital and was pronounced.

Also, "bases" and "basis" are not interchangeable.

This year's Bulwer-Lytton overall winner (there are other subcategories at the site):

Gerald began — but was interrupted by a piercing whistle which cost him ten percent of his hearing permanently, as it did everyone else in a ten-mile radius of the eruption, not that it mattered much because for them 'permanently' meant the next ten minutes or so until buried by searing lava or suffocated by choking ash — to pee.

- Jim Gleeson, Madison, Wisconsin

Boston-local
- The downtown Filene's Basement (under what used to be Filene's) is going out of business. I wonder what will go in those spaces.
- Tango by moonlight on the Weeks Footbridge every summer full moon, sponsored by the Tango Society of Boston.
- Fever Fest has new, short plays at the Cambridge Multicultural Arts Center, August 22-25 (including one Alice-themed one).

Some interesting moments in Massachusetts history.
(And for thems that say nothing ever happens in Worcester.... here's a few :-)