This goes down as the first story to make me tear up when I read the phrase "Fuck. Them."

Nice story of working the salmon line at the docks, with her dad as manager. Reminds me of the summer I spent delivering newspapers at 2am 7 days a week before college.

Joel Johnson's tech journalism has no peer. This is just one of many great stories he's been doing over the past couple months

This is a really great story about the wonders of hearing TV broadcasts on the radio (which are now gone)

It's Kottke's Fault

An honest look at child rearing, the things everyone goes through.

Amazing tale of getting sucked into World of Warcraft and getting out. I think once the "MySpace rapes children" meme is played out, we'll see senators trying to ban this game

An amazing story from a doctor-in-training

Great, great story of a Florida librarian kicking a junk faxer's ass

peanuts and the nuts that love them

A simply fantastic blog entry from waiter rant.

both entries here (from parents of twin toddlers) are hilarious: explaining records and talking about shopping at "precision aiming device"