internet explorers club

Hi friends. Today is the 57th anniversary of the flight of Laika, the first living creature in earth orbit / eventual Levin Zartman Halloween costume. Today's fun fact is that "Laika" literally just means "Barker" in Russian, so there you go.

Writer suing American Hustle for microwave-related slander is an actual headline NOT from the Onion.

"Please don't take selfies with bears" is something that the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service actually had to say.

Also, November means that the the National Novel Writing Month is going on, which means NaNoWriMo fora are in full swing, full of tips and tricks to fake your way to 50,000 words in a month:

In SUPER POSITIVE NEWS, a new Beyoncé album might be dropping???? and Flawless (Remix) is on it, so all my dreams have come true.

Also I am completely obsessed with Edward Burtynsky's OIL series of photographs and cannot ever hope to afford them.

As a final note, please remember to Find Your F***ing Polling Placein advance of tomorrow.

--Emily