Best of Craig's List

Via Gawker, the Best of Craig’s List (New York):

• Missed Connections:
• My Precious
• To the mad man in the post office
• Cute Girl Giving Me the Finger On the F --- Is It Love? (also see F Train Hand Signals Defined)
• Come Back Mr. Screaming Snow Shovelling Chinese Man!
• Subway Etiquette, a little lesson
• Beautiful Yoga Goddess in my class
• true computer nerd seeks true love, or better yet, true extramarital sex
• So you've gone and had our relationship without me...
• Jobs:
• $20 to help me sound "street"
• Senior Level Flatulence Technician

The Mighty Midols

Midol has introduced a team of young superheroines, the Mighty Midols — Marissa, Mimi, and Maya — to “battle the forces of Monsteruation”. If you stuck stuff like this in a novel, people wouldn’t believe it. (Via BoingBoing.)

Angelus interruptus

Fucking television. One of my dreams is ubiquitous super-broadband net connections and a business model that lets viewers directly support the studios that produce TV shows, bypassing the broadcaster entirely and making TV networks as relevant as buggy-whip manufacturers.

Five minutes from the end of tonight’s episode of Angel, the station interrupts the show for some “breaking news” about the upcoming war with Iraq. And having done that, they tell me nothing of any actual immediate import, nothing that I couldn’t have found out for myself in thirty seconds browsing of Google News. Just typical breaking news coverage — nothing to say, but in a big hurry to say it.