I had no idea this particular variety of mouse deer even existed — but it does (and please forgive the cheesy NatGeo narration):

A bit like finding out your pet chihuahua can fly.

I’m assuming, of course, that chihuahuas can’t fly.  Apparently, you never know.

The management of a new Hawaiian TV station is horrified at the realization that the last three call letters “UNT” do not lead to a particularly euphonic four-letter station name, considering that the first letter will assuredly not be “W.”

They apparently never noticed what their own station name spelled. Neither did the FCC, who would fine somebody hundreds of thousands of dollars if you reported this story on the air and pronounced these FCC-approved call letters as a phonetic whole.

Incidentally, in the same set of approvals, the company now also owns “KWTF.” (As in “WTF?”) Fitting.

Link via our Trebekistan pal Ken Jennings, whose blog you may find habit-forming.

The management of a new Hawaiian TV station is horrified at the realization that the last three call letters “UNT” do not lead to a particularly euphonic four-letter station name, considering that the first letter will assuredly not be “W.”

They apparently never noticed what their own station name spelled. Neither did the FCC, who would fine somebody hundreds of thousands of dollars if you reported this story on the air and pronounced these FCC-approved call letters as a phonetic whole.

Incidentally, in the same set of approvals, the company now also owns “KWTF.” (As in “WTF?”) Fitting.

Link via our Trebekistan pal Ken Jennings, whose blog you may find habit-forming.

A Sudanese official named Ahmad Harun is wanted by the International Criminal Court for war crimes and crimes against humanity in Darfur.

He has not yet been arrested, however.

Instead, as the L.A. Times just pointed out, he is currently serving as a Sudanese Minister of Humanitarian Affairs.

Incidentally, I mention this in the Sudan chapter of my next book, which will be out next month. But the book is a series of very short essays, so Harun gets all of two or three sardonic sentences. All I could squeeze in. I’ll be eager to see this given wider attention.

The Times story gives photos and a much fuller picture, including some very dark conjecture about Harun’s eventual poetic fate. Well done, and good reading.

A Sudanese official named Ahmad Harun is wanted by the International Criminal Court for war crimes and crimes against humanity in Darfur.

He has not yet been arrested, however.

Instead, as the L.A. Times just pointed out, he is currently serving as a Sudanese Minister of Humanitarian Affairs.

Incidentally, I mention this in the Sudan chapter of my next book, which will be out next month. But the book is a series of very short essays, so Harun gets all of two or three sardonic sentences. All I could squeeze in. I’ll be eager to see this given wider attention.

The Times story gives photos and a much fuller picture, including some very dark conjecture about Harun’s eventual poetic fate. Well done, and good reading.