Let's start with a snippet I breezed upon over at Instapundit.

Of course, for really bad product-naming, you've got to hand it to the Moro Islamic Liberation Front, whose initials produce a lot of, um, non-Islamic hits on Google.

The new link on the right comes from zhongwen.com. They provide a sidebar with a changing character every few minutes. Clicking on the graphic takes you to their homepage. A good site for searching, especially if you got a little Chinese character capability. You can search by English, radical, the Mandarin phonetic system (bo po mo fo) and commie pinyin.

Hear Ye! Hear Ye! Please remember that The Right Olde All Sports Hootenanny will be held on April 24. Again, there will be teams from football, rugby, soccer and the Society for Creative Anachronism. The sports will be, well, football, rugby, soccer and jousting. Time and place: Noon at Lin Dong College. If you would like to participate and/or practice CPR, please bug Lance for details. Well, no, make that Jack. Oh, hell, I don't know. Play it safe and bug both of them.

I bought sea salt. Now, hold it right there. I know this sounds sorta like saying I enjoy a deep-cleaning kelp facial mask, but it's not. I was given a tall boy-sized bottle the other day. It's French, so it cost $360NT. After Sunday's football, I was sore and remarked about a hot soak. Well, Jerry ( I-can-too-ride-a-motorcycle-after-two-pints-of-whiskey-and-beer-chaser Jerry) suggested some sea salt. Well, hell. Isn't all salt from the sea? Oops! Excuse me. Or from dried up salt lakes? Is the sea salt fresher? Or does the salt lake salt(?) have more time to intensify its flavor? Who knows? Who cares? We'll if you have a wife, she damn well will. Epicurious has a good description of the different kinds of salt here. Wait! Don't run away! It contains a link to borscht, for cryin' out loud! There's more! Over here, you can learn about the 84 different minerals in sea salt and order a 150 page guidebook to Colima, Mexico and its museum. By now you're in a salt buying frenzy. Rush on over to Mitsukoshi's basement supermarket and you can buy coarse grained sea salt for $30NT and fine grained for $60NT. Again, I have no idea what the difference is (yeah, I know, size), but the wife did find that only the fine grained salt said anything about okay for consumption and the coarse grained was for soaking.