He swore off beer, had to put the pricey organic bananas back on the supermarket shelf and squeezed four meals out of a single chicken, all in the name of reducing hunger. And this is not even an election year.

Gov. Theodore R. Kulongoski’s decision to live on $3 a day in grocery money for a week, as he had been urged to do in an Oregon “food stamp challenge,” could confound the surest cynic. At 66, he was just elected to his second term, with a budget surplus surpassing $1 billion and a legislature controlled by his fellow Democrats. So just what was there to gain politically?

For a governor who has long pushed to reduce hunger and happens to like eating peanut butter and jelly sandwiches, maybe that was not the point.

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A flickr gallery that only jlygrnmgt could love. :) The artist's entire gallery is creepy and fun to look over. Check out the Cthulus!

A Johnson City, TN middle-school music teacher asked a student to pose for him in a mermaid costume. She complained. Parents complained. He was reassigned. Full story.

West Legal Directory: More than 800,000 lawyers and law firms in the U.S. -- not all, but many. If you know the name, you can find the lawyer anywhere in the U.S. Or search by area of practice.

A Soldier's Viewpoint on Surviving Nuclear, Chemical and Biological Attacks
(via spiritualmonkey)

An annotated list of the Top 25 Web 2.0 Search Engines (via ozarque)

Young, Gifted, and Not Getting Into Harvard

WordSmyth: "The Educational Dictionary-Thesaurus," with more than 50,000 words defined. Links to synonyms.

NNDB is an intelligence aggregator that tracks the activities of people we have determined to be noteworthy, both living and dead....it mostly exists to document the connections between people, many of which are not always obvious. (from dsgood)

Forbes: Condemned to Google Hell

And finally....

Saturday is the third annual CAPE Free Comic Book Day event at Zeus Comics in Dallas. Local residents can catch sclerotic_rings's "impromptu lecture on "How to Feed Your Carnivorous Plants When You've Run Out Of Neighbor Children" while he works as Lea Hernandez's booth bunny." :D Hey, with a sense of humor like that, the experience is sure to be memorable!