3 more reasons to love the internet

CONTEXT A reader asks for a mashup of the themes of this blog: "I want to see the overlap of pop culture, gardening and trivia, perhaps in the form of topiary."

• • • Disney

• • • Sesame Street

• • • Beatles

3 more inappropriate Halloween costumes

NEWS ITEM It's not like the "illegal alien" pun was so good anyway

• • • Nothing confuses the terms "trick or treat" like sexualizing children

• • • RW terrorism, did you light that jack o' lantern with a burning cross?

• • • Is it Christmas already?

3 more musicians who didn't die from a gun, drugs or a crash

NEWS ITEM Folk singer eaten by coyotes

• • •Yardbirds' Keith Relf -- electrocuted playing guitar in tub

• • •Fairport Convention's Sandy Denny -- brain hemorrhage after a fall down stairs

• • • Carpenters' Karen Carpenter-- effects of anorexia

3 more sources to address wind damage in your landscape

NEWS ITEM LA buffeted by 70 MPH winds

• • • Prevention is better than cure

• • • Windburn is when gusts wick moisture from leaves

• • • Expert's last resort to keeping some plants alive: death threats

3 more reasons to like the Lakers

NEWS ITEM The Road to Repeat

• • • Kar33m; 6 rings, 6 MVPs, 2 Finals MVP, 15 yrs All-NBA team (10 1st team, 5 2nd team), 11yrs All-NBA defense team (5 1st team, 6 2nd team), 38,387 points, 17,440 rebounds, 3,189 blocks, 5,660 assists-- author of 6 books

• • • Magic; 5 rings, 3 MVPs, 3 Finals MVP, 10yrs All-NBA team (9 1st team, 1 2nd team), 17,707 points, 6,669 rebounds, 10,141 assists -- '81-'82 season: 700+ points, 700+ rebounds, 700+ assists

• • • Mr Clutch; 1 ring, 1 Finals MVP (in a yr they didn't win), 10yrs All-NBA team (8 1st team, 2 2nd team), 3yrs All-NBA defense team, 25,192 points, 5,366 rebounds, 6,238 assists -- generally considered the best GM in the history of the game

3 more Christmas albums by Members of the Tribe

NEWS ITEM Bob Dylan's Christmas record "bad for Jews"

• • • Barbra Streisand

• • • Kenny G

• • • Neil Diamond

3 more things about undoing one's brother

NEWS ITEM Castro's sister says she worked with the CIA

• • • Unabomber

• • • Top Chef

• • • Cain and Abel

3 more photo stories

NEWS ITEM Windows 7 upgrade leaves Photo Story behind... so far

• • • Women at war via LIFE

• • • Package of photo packages

• • • Harrassing shooters, follow the on-going saga at Boing-Boing where comments include an un-ironic call for a flash mob of fotogs

3 more bio-pics about pilots

NEWS ITEM Hillary Swank to crash Amelia Earhart

• • • Fred MacMurray crashes as Eddie Rickenbacker (also made "Dive Bomber" "Thirteen Hours by Air" which both pivot around mid-air mishaps plus "Flight for Freedom" which is a thinly disguised Earhart fiction)

• • • Jimmy Stewart as Charles Lindbergh (where he bails out of crashing plane)

• • • Leonardo DiCaprio crashes as Howard Hughes

3 more collections of euphemisms for death

NEWS ITEM Taser maker warns of "adverse cardiac event."

• • • Via Listology, highlight: "Mortified."

• • • A list of lists (currently Stygian), highlight (from a list of internet euphemisms for death): "Clicked the bucket."

• • • For mystery writers, highlight: "Moved into upper management."

3 more stories of bad news for news

Follow the news: NewspaperDeathWatch.com
• • • Mexico is bad for reporters.

• • • NYTimes to make staff cuts (which raises stock by 7%)

• • • GOP Congressional candidate calls police on reporter for asking questions

3 more people who aren't who they seem to be

NEWS ITEM Howard Stern faces charges in death of Anna Nicole Smith

• • • Joe Jackson -- neither music great nor baseball legend

• • • John Madden -- director not football coach and commentator

• • • Jerry West -- children's author not basketball great

3 more stories about bicycling

• • • A memoir

• • • In Vermont

• • • Injuries

3 more looks into darkness

NEWS ITEM Hospitals admit mistakes and avoid lawsuits

• • • CommonTies.com they have a book deal

• • • GroupHug.us now also real-time posts

• • • PostSecret.blogspot.com there 5 books now

3 more folks who take grammar seriously, for good or goof

NEWS ITEM William Safire, grammerian in chief, dies

• • • Fake AP Stylebook

• • • Red Pen

• • • Copyslot on Facebook and the Blog

3 more magazines the world could still use

• • • Wigwag

• • • GEO

• • • Icon Thoughtsyle

3 more websites worth the time you give them

CONTEXT Microsoft's search engine

• • • TED -- Presentations from the Technology Entertainment Design conferences, smartest in their fields talk to each other

• • • Fark -- Site of aggregated content that serves your inner 12-year-old

• • • BoingBoing-- Newest, biggest, weirdest, wrongest, futurist

3 more things to do after the rain

• • • Check for soil erosion in your yard. Be it a little or a lot, it's never good. If everyone lost just a cupful of dirt into the gutter during a rain, that'd be a lot of dirt. If you have a slope of any size at all, check it out and do something about it: ground cover plants, mulch, retaining walls, wattles, rip rap, gabions, terraces.

Whether your slope is 80degrees over 80 feet, or 8degrees over 8 inches, keep that dirt on your property.

• • • Turn off your sprinklers. Really. Nothing announces to you neighbors that "I have no clue about the world around me" than to water anything right after the rain.

• • • Spread seeds. Pick an empty lot, a bare spot in your garden, or anyplace that would benefit from some California golden poppies. In your lawn, spread rose clover-- it's fairly drought tolerant and low maintenance and good for the soil.

3 more things with 3s

• • • The Three Stooges

• • • Three Dog Night

• • • Three Doors Down