It’s funny you should recommend Privacy Badger. I have PB on my iMac, and it lights up like a pinball machine on every Gizmodo page. Here’s what it shows on this Lifehacker page:

Until 1967 Virginia still had miscegenation laws prohibiting mixed marriages; a white person could not marry any non-white person, and of course vice-versa. A good friend of mine (a white guy) met a Japanese woman in Hawaii and brought her home to marry her here in the Old Dominion. On applying for a marriage license…

“All art is subjective.”

Typing loudly on a Mac keyboard is nothing compared to smacking the keys on a typewriter. Early machines were entirely mechanical; the harder you hit the key the harder the type arm hit the paper. When writing about something you cared about you got the pleasure of really punctuating your feelings.

Keith Richards is proof of life after death. Rock on, Keith... !

“... and various seeds...”

Back in the ‘60s we had space age fashions. Everything old is new again.

You are officially absolved of the responsibility to read it. Go forth and sin no more.

Indeed I did. Wonderful stuff. I recently met him and got his autograph on Fall.

I’d like to add Gravity’s Rainbow to the list. Published in 1973 it technically doesn’t qualify as one of their “classics”, but it’s pretty close. It won all sorts of awards and rave reviews, but I tried twice to read it and it utterly defeated me.

The 1814 Battle of New Orleans is forever memorialized in the 1959 hit novelty song of the same name written by Jimmy Driftwood and sung by Johnny Horton. It was the #1 record of that year, the 1960 Grammy winner for Best Country and Western Recording, and #37 on the all-time Billboard Hot 100 chart, well ahead of…

“More Oregon Trail than D&D...”

“...what sounds like the kind of breathing apparatus that would be attached to an iron lung.”

“...borrowed from The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou’s wardrobe...”

“...borrowed from The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou’s wardrobe...”

“And this positively infantile preoccupation with bosoms. In all my time in this wretched Godforsaken country, the one thing that has appalled me most of all this this preposterous preoccupation with bosoms.

Fun fact: 20th Century-Fox was formed in 1935 from the merger of Twentieth Century Pictures (founded in 1933) and Fox Film (1915) by Darryl F. Zanuck after he withdrew Twentieth Century from distributor United Artists in a stock dispute.

Umm... I posted this last August: