Buttered Mashed Potaotoes Classic Filled Candle
—Buttered Mashed Potaotoes Classic Filled Candle (bathandbodyworks.com) I’m sorry, this seems… wrong. Thanks for this link, Rosemary. It has disturbed in me in ways that I would prefer to forget.
Digital Exploration: Unwrapping the Secrets of Damaged Manuscripts
In the bowels of the British Library, the first object the conservator showed Seales was a manuscript that was so mangled, he says, “We almost ran screaming from the room, because there was nothing we could do. We had no tools that could help.” Seales tells me such manuscript fragments exist in the nooks and…
Washington Post to Buy Web Magazine Slate
Washington Post Co. on Tuesday said it would buy Microsoft Corp.’s online magazine Slate, whose mix of politics, news and culture has built a loyal following but failed to yield significant profits. —Martha Graybow —Washington Post to Buy Web Magazine Slate (Reuters)
Down and Out in Discount America
In a chilling reversal of Henry Ford’s strategy, which was to pay his workers amply so they could buy Ford cars, Wal-Mart’s stingy compensation policies–workers make, on average, just over $8 an hour, and if they want health insurance, they must pay more than a third of the premium–contribute to an economy in which, increasingly,…