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Mike Sterling gives a quick rundown of comic book in-jokes that refer to one of the more startling comics titles in history:  Giant-Size Man-Thing.

But first, let's learn about soup

Separated by a Common Language will teach you about the differences between American and British conceptions of soup.

It turns out that chunks are important.

These are not the definitions of soup, but the core exemplars of what belongs to the SOUP category, from which the 'soupiness' of other foods is measured. So, each culture has soups that don't conform to these ideals, but they nevertheless have enough in common with them (e.g. being liquid, considered food rather than drink, containing vegetables) to also be called soup. The differences in the prototypes might have some effects on the boundaries of the category.

Hello folks. It's Monday Morning. Again.

It has come to this:

"Time Lapses"

Sometimes I wonder if the process of creation is more important than the creation itself.



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Penguin and ease of use

I have been alerted to this deal at Amazon:

"Now, for the first time, the entire line of Penguin Classics is available in one complete collection for home, office, or institutional libraries. The Penguin Classics Library Complete Collection currently consists of 1,082 titles, all great works of literature totaling nearly half a million pages."


Ok, let's get our calculators out.


1,082 titles for $13,413.30 works out to about $12.40 per book.  A quick eyeball tells me that Penguin Classics go for $8 to $13 new.  So I gotta say there's not much savings there.


Not counting the shipping, which who knows what that is (I imagine that if you order all the titles by hand, you will get the super saver shipping.) and the thought that anyone who might be interested in getting this is likely going to have a fair number of copies already...  


Still, not a bad use of a gigantic bookshelf that you might have in some empty corner of your house.