Nice and curious

The New Yorker riffs on “intelligent design”: And the Lord God said, “Let there be light,” and lo, there was light. But then the Lord God said, “Wait, what if I make it a sort of rosy, sunset-at-the-beach, filtered half-light, so that everything else I design will look younger?” “I’

Catholic Online (via MeFi) reports on a recruiting poster for the Catholic priesthood based on … the Matrix movies.

Metafilter links to the blog YesButNoButYes, which has an excellent “Where are they now” feature – surprisingly thorough. (Do you know what happened to the woman who played Augustus Gloop’s mother in the original Willie Wonka? No? You do now.)

According to diesel sweeties.

The Washington Post reports on Supreme Court nominee John Roberts’s rebuffal of Michael Jackson’s advances in the ’80s.

The unanswerable questions posed tothe Urban Legends Reference Pages. via MeFi.

Pretend you are the world’s leading search company. (via BoingBoing)

Unclear photo above taken outside the Economist Shop, in London, where building work is taking place. The ‘business as usual’ sign is an Economist advert (red background, white letters, you know the score) reading “Business, as usual”. Very impressive.

COLOPHON: Details of a book or website’s publication information. A publishers’ mark or symbol. From Greek for summit.

Apparently US Chief Justice William Rehnquist is a Gilbert and Sullivan fan. So much so, indeed, that five years ago he added five gold bars to his black robes, in imitation of the Lord High Chancellor’s costume in Iolanthe. (via New Republic)