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My new favorite tumblr: JenReadsJunkmail

Jen reads and illustrates the best junk email.
(Poorly. And with Sharpies.)

Santoli Oberhelman to Jen

She came back with briars, leaves, or bits of him. Every street in all our cities will this strewn over the field. And bhishma the son of his mother, who asked him, ‘shall the princess biohaepgbhhs hand, joyfully and with proper respect. Lomasa of fear because of the consequences of his wrong canals the gondoliers should row their pleasureboat.

Sadly I haven’t read either of these, but they are now officially on my library list.

Thursday, April 3, 7pm

A night of Southeast Asian American memoir. Six years ago at the age of twenty-one, Jaed Muncharoen Coffin, a half-Thai American man, left New England to visit his mother’s native village of Panomsarakram — thus fulfilling a familial obligation. A Chant to Soothe Wild Elephants: A Memoir (Da Capo, 2008), part armchair travel, part coming-of-age story, is Coffin’s debut that chronicles his journey.

Driven to tell her family’s story after her grandmother’s death, The Latehomecomer: A Hmong Family Memoir (Coffee House Press, 2008) is Kao Kalia Yang’s tribute to the remarkable woman whose spirit held them all together. In search of a place to call home, thousands of Hmong families made the journey from the war-torn jungles of Laos to the overcrowded refugee camps of Thailand and onward to America. But lacking a written language of their own, the Hmong experience has been primarily recorded by others. The Latehomecomer is an eloquent, firsthand account of a people who have worked hard to make their voices heard.

Cosponsored by Singha Beer

@ The Asian American Writers’ Workshop
16 West 32nd Street, 10th Floor
(btwn Broadway & 5th Avenue)
New York City

$5 suggested donation

So. Who was geeky enough to rush to the internet at 12:01 am this morning to look for Google’s latest April Fool’s antic?

I have to admit, Google’s pranks rank pretty low on today’s much celebrated, anticipated and feared day of days. I made a list of some practical buffoonery on certain websites that I found today. Sharing is caring, so here are my top 10 2008 April Fool’s Pranks on the internet.

10. Google corps may live up to the standards of previous years, but it sure made up for it in sheer quantity. I sprung into action thanks to Google Calendar’s annoying Wake Up Kit and found 236th richest person in the world, Richard Branson, promising to keep Virgle, Google and Virgin’s planned colony in Mars, to remain open source. But that was yesterday’s news. Literally. People emailed me yesterday they saw it coming on gDay™ with MATE™. But then again, they might have altered the date with Gmail’s latest Custom Time™.

9. Improv Everywhere: This bullet point is under construction.

8. YouDigg may be buggy and slow thanks to the Digg effect on Youtube, but it’s all right. Uk.youtube.com however is all shades of wrong! Every featured video redirects to Rick Astley’s “Never Gonna Give You Up”. Jerks. Who would do such a thing. Honestly!

7. Sometimes I need a dictionary for Qwantz, an encyclopedia for Questionable Content, and a lecture by an MIT prof in exchange for sexual favors just to read XKCD. But today I don’t know what/who to do. They’re all mixed up.

6. Kaketaku. No it’s not some sort of perverted Japanese tea ritual. It’s Kotaku’s answer to the much needed call for reviews of game cakes.

5. It turns out that Dr. Warren, founder of eHarmony, is far too disabled, and way too into gay interracial breeding to find love on his own website. So he went on Match.com and found true love.

4. Forget cheese. Say, “Don’t taze me bro!” It’s the ZapCam, from ThinkGeek. Also check out Japan’s latest craze Super Pii Pii Bros, and the USB Preggers test (what’s with Geeks and urine? Gee whiz)

3. Now we’re all very excited about Aviary, the soon to be released webapp suite made by the team behind Worth1000. But no one expected April 1 to be the launch date of their most anticipated application: Dodo: Web-Based Time Machine!
Play around with any image’s age, scientific properties, the current season (for landscapes only but don’t worry, the program recognizes that), amount of surgery and debauchery.

2. Animals from the tundra on both end of the pole fill our number two spot, though that may change. Antarctic Polar Bear Relocation starts on Earth Day this year. It’s really solving two climate change problems at once. Once they mosey on down to the South Pole, they’ll replace our favorite missing feathered ice-dwellers: BBC’s flying penguins. Watch this beautiful documentary presented by the even more titillating Terry Jones of bygone Monty Python glory.

1. And the number one April Fools’ day prank of 2008:

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