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…the Utne Reader of environmental blogs, though the phrase the folks there use is “traveling blog carnival”.  This month’s “issue” is posted at Perceiving Wholes.

No, really. A Princeton lab geared towards studies of ESP will be shutting down after nearly 30 years of research.

(NYT: “A Princeton Lab on ESP Plans to Close Its Doors,” by Benedict Carey [Feb 10, 2007])

Yeah, I was surprised, too.

A trailing headline at the foot of an article on the Book Standard boldly shouted “Florida man wins Hemingway look-alike contest”.  Except that the link is defunct, and doesn’t actually lead to an article describing the contest in all its certain hilarity.

So I did a search on Yahoo! News… and came across not an article on a Hemingway look-alike contest (of which there are at least a few, apparently), but an article on a group of folks in Florida being paid big bucks for their land by would-be developers.  You’re wondering, of course, where all this is going.

Well:

One of the new Briny millionaires is Tom Byrne… whose salt-and-pepper beard and barrel chest make him a sure winner in any Ernest Hemingway look-alike contest…

Space-time paradoxes involving elephants, black holes and, yes, Alice. Also a baseball encyclopedia.

(NewScientist: “The elephant and the event horizon,” by Amanda Gefter [Oct 26, 2006])

“Pitch ‘n’ Putt with Joyce ‘n’ Beckett” pretty much says it all. Though don’t take my word for it.