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It’s not every day you see dinosaurs fornicate on eBay.

You will never look at flan the same way again.

The comments, too, are gold. Spoogetastic gold.

[Thanks to Elf for the link.]

Toni McGee Causey wrote a punch of an entry over at Murderati today about why writing, and who writing is for. Warning: emotional wallop packed. Have tissues nearby.

[Thanks to SonomaLass for the link.]

I know from email messages and stat analysis that our site has a good number of readers from India, and as hell and the handbasket seem to have made themselves comfortable in Mumbai, I hope our Indian readers know that our thoughts and prayers are with you. Keep safe.

I found this amazing and inspiring article on the Yahoo!News Book/Publishing News page, which lately is about as full of good news as the Dow Jones industrial average. A young man in Albuquerque raised over $6000.00 to help build a library in Ethiopia as part of a nonprofit charity’s efforts to improve literacy in that country. Ethiopia Reads has built 30 libraries and aims for 100 by 2010.

Tobyn Pulice raised the money by selling “Shout Outs” for .25c during morning announcements at school, which brought in $1800, and then helped organize a community golf tournament.

Ethiopia Reads was founded by Yohannes Gebregeorgis, who grew up with a complete lack of books to the point that “he can remember each one he read until he was 19 years old.”

Pretty awesome, right? Ok, now for the fun section. This is the part that nearly knocked me out with the giggles: