The Philadelphia Phillies chartered an Amtrak train for their trip to New York to face the Yankees in the World Series. Usually they take a bus up, though they do ride the rails to D.C. for Nationals games. [...] 
Neiman Marcus sold all 50 Jaguar XJs from their Christmas Book in four hours. I'm pretty sure that was without any test drives. I wonder how the cupcake cars are doing. (Here's a Flickr set of the cupcake cars in the wild.)' [...] 
The US Forest Service has compiled links to fall color reports across the country in one handy page. [...] 
Wikipedia's List of mottos entry is interesting browsing, especially the variety in the educational institutions section. [...] 
Update from yesterday: here's some Candy Land on Lombard Street coverage. They used interlocking rubber mats to cover the street. Plus they had Princess Lolly, Princess Frostine and King Kandy! [...] 
from the past: White Glove Tracking. "On May 4th, 2007, we asked internet users to help isolate Michael Jackson's white glove in all 10,060 frames of his nationally televised landmark performance of Billy Jean. 72 hours later 125,000 gloves had been located." [...] 
These tiger pup photos are very cute. The pups, born at the Safari Zoological Park in Kansas, were featured on NBC's Today Show on September 19, 2008. Abandoned by their mom, they were brought home by zookeepers and raised with the help of a golden retriever. [...] 
"The oldest handcrafted musical instrument yet discovered" is a flute around 35,000 years old and made out of griffon vulture bone. It was found in southern Germany and 22 centimeters long with 5 holes. [...] 
Take a visual trip through 50 years of bizarre and kitschy children's television from H.R. Pufnstuf to Sigmund and the Sea Monsters through to today's bizarre Boohbah. [...] 
Opera is actually popular, in San Francisco anyway. 27,000 people attended the free simulcast of "Tosca" at AT&T Park (home of the S.F. Giants). The audience watched the San Francisco Opera performance on the scoreboard screen, setting the appropriate tone first by singing the national anthem. [...] 
Among metal sculptor Don Carlson's clever creations are working barbecues shaped like toothy monsters and aliens. He also makes benches out of compressor tanks.' [...] 
Call in the Mythbusters and don't give Fido a fancy glass drinking bowl. Bellevue firefighters believe that the sun shining on a dog's glass water bowl set a deck on fire, causing an estimated $215,000 in damage to the house. [...] 
All three of Corby Kummer's James Beard award-winning articles are online at The Atlantic: "A Papaya Grows in Holyoke," "Beyond the McIntosh," and "Half a Loaf". (links to even more winning writing are at Slashfood)' [...] 
Paul Gauguin's painting "Where Do We Come From? What Are We? Where Are We Going?" is on loan to Japan from Boston's Museum of Fine Arts and "Japanese embraced it with a kind of fanaticism usually reserved for their baseball players." [...] 
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