Is This Any Way to Run an Island?

Catching up on a backlog of Google Reader goodies. Here's up to early September, with the interim probably showing up later today.

• The mysteries of the Japanese barbecue, on Gaijin Smash
• The Unicorn Museum: a response to the Creationism Museum, from The Daily Dish
• Ten physically modified people, from Deputy Dog
• Ironic needlepoint, on Bogadilla
• Why "ditto" means about the same as the adjectival "said," on Podictionary
• Three words: Joust, the movie? On Destructoid
• The quotable Godzilla, on My Own Dorkness
• How to make people understand that your show is a dramedy, by the Onion A.V. Club
• Robert Rodriguez to make his gal Rose McGowan the new Barbarella, on Cinematical
• Typing maven Mavis Beacon is, in fact, a fiction, on Mother Tongue Annoyances

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