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I don’t think anyone knows, but I read tons of blogs via Google Reader, and when I find something awesome and educational, I share it. My shared items can be viewed on this page. You should go there!  You can even subscribe to it, just like a real blog! But unlike a real blog, I hope you learn something.

So far $1700 has been sent to the women’s organization in Basra.  This is great news! We really are helping to change the lives of suffering people.  This is something that Americans  need to do more often.

Of course, the women are still currently in danger and there is always more to be done, so if you haven’t donated yet, you can send donations via PayPal to tips@jezebel.com.

If you don’t know what I’m talking about, go here.

Well, indirectly, at least.

From the article:

GrammarBlog approaches language oddities and mishaps with a lighthearted, irreverent tone. Gez Daring, Daniel Gray and Tom Knowles started the blog as a continuation of the linguistic gibes they shared during their time at University of Newcastle upon Tyne, in England. “The highlight of this period was the discovery of a takeaway menu with no less than 57 separate mistakes in spelling, grammar, punctuation or typography. This document is our Dead Sea Scroll and the basis for our current endeavours,” Mr. Daring writes in an email.

Many posts include photographs of errors spotted in everything from literature to signage, to which the bloggers respond with often snarky corrections. One photo shows a sign that says “No Shirts, No Pets, No Shoes No Service.” The blogger comments: “I don’t know where to begin. This could mean that shirts, pets, shoes and service are all forbidden on the premises. Or perhaps pets are mandatory. Who wears more than one shirt anyway?” Readers contribute their own photos of spelling errors and mistakes in grammar.

Yup, I took that photo and posted it here and submitted it to GrammarBlog. Hooray for us!

Other famous times include my fifteen seconds of fame on CNN’s The Paula Zahn Show.

In case you haven’t heard about this, here’s a summary: A seventeen year old Iraqi girl, Rand Hussein, is seen talking to a British soldier.  Their friendship never gets beyond casual, but the girl confides to a friend that she has a crush on him. Four months later, her father, Abdel-Qader Ali, finds out and takes the only logical step:  he beats / stomps / stabs her to death, with the help of his sons. Meanwhile, the girl’s mother, Lila Hussein, fears for her life and gets the courage to escape from her waste-of-genetic-material husband.  While hiding out from him she receives multiple death threats.  Finally, she is able to plan an escape from Iraq altogether with the help of a group campaigning for women’s rights.  On the day she was to be smuggled into Jordan, she was murdered in the street.

I am not violent at all.  I don’t wish harm to anyone.  But I am being honest when I say that I would personally take joy out of murdering Abdel-Qader Ali. I do hope that this woman’s death is a sort of shot-heard-round-the-world and people open their eyes to these tragedies.  It has certainly opened my eyes.  But I know that this is not the first time this has happened.

This time, however, there is a way to help.  Thanks to Rebecca Watson of SkepChick and The Skeptic’s Guide to the Universe, and Moe of Jezebel, there is a way to donate money to the group that helped Lila plan her escape.  Since the names of the people in the actual organization have to be kept confidential, for obvious reasons, the money will go through Jezebel and will then be wired to a journalist contact in Basra, who will personally hand the money to the organization.

You can send donations of any amount via PayPal to tips@jezebel.com.  Thanks for listening.

Phil Plait, aka The Bad Astronomer, has written a post about Ray Comfort’s latest stupidity and linked to my website in gratitude for sending him the link. I’ve hit the bigtime again!

If only Ray hadn’t been born without the gene for comprehension…

Does anyone have Skype?  I’d kind of like to try it out on my new machine and new internet.  My username is jeffthefishdotcom.

Check it out!

I gott say, I think it was actually my sister who noticed this sign.  And my name is Jason, not Jeff.  Jeff was an actual fish I once had.  He now lives on in the masthead.  But I don’t really care, because, come on!  I’m on GrammarBlog!

My boss and several of the other managers just called me into a conference room to tell me that no one likes me.

For some reason, my SU toolbar doesn’t allow me to submit most of my pages. I can’t figure out why, and neither, apparently, can SU. Other people, however, can submit my stuff just fine.

So if you use StumbleUpon and you something I’ve posted, would you be so kind as to click the “I like it!” button in your toolbar, or the “Stumble It!” link found at the end of each individual post? I know it’s a dumb thing to ask, but I’m dumb.

I made a new Three Ninjas song last night called “Are We Sure?”.  If you have a few moments, please visit the Three Ninjas MySpace page and listen to it!