Did you buy a house in LA county from 7/03-7/08?

Over 500,000 single family houses and condos that were purchased between July 2003 and June 2008 will be reviewed by the county assessor. After April 1st, owners will be able to check this website to see if their home is part of the review.

Three blog entries in search of a blogger

The buying explosive chemicals for schoolkids project got fully funded. I can't wait to get the little donor package full of pictures of smiling children with missing digits! Go check out other wonderful projects at donorschoose.

I would pay an extra $15 to unlock a secret feature in the new Prince of Persia game that would let you press a button to slap the main characters when they say something inane.

Finished Lucius Shepherd's The Ends of the Earth. Didn't much like the totality of the titular story, and a couple of the others got needlessly, meanderingly lyrical and over-stayed their welcome; in some of the stories, you can almost pinpoint the moment when Lucius ran out of the mellow shit and ill-advisedly drank all the bongwater before heading back for the typewriter. But other stories were top-notch. There's also an interesting focus on Central America, the military, American imperialism, and all the possible Venn diagram combinations thereof.