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Were the rates for postcards eliminated?
No, postcards are part of First-Class Mail International. The rates for eligible cards will be 69 cents to Canada and Mexico; 52 cents to the Marshall Islands and Micronesia; and 90 cents to all other countries. Remember, for postcard rates, cards can be no larger than 4-1/4 by 6 inches.

Dumbasses.  The question is obviously “were lower rates for postcards eliminated?”  And the answer is, “Yes.”

Turns out GeoIP is my friend.  I ran it on my log files, and found eighteen more locales that have visited my site, according to their IP-allocation database: Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Serbia and Montenegro, United Kingdom (in the .gb rather than .uk TLD), Jamaica, Kuwait, Laos, Libya, Mongolia, Macao, Namibia, Nigeria, Panama, Puerto Rico, Rwanda, Sudan, Senegal, and Somalia.

182 down, 82 to go.

When buying products from GoDaddy, always choose, initially, the smallest-possible duration or unit size.  Then wait for them to offer you a special price for a longer term via a checkbox.  This will not only be lower than the smallest-possible unit pro-rated, it will be lower than the price you would have gotten by choosing that duration or size in the first place.  Make sure you use the checkbox they offer you.

Yes, it’s slimy, but all of GoDaddy is slimy.  People don’t use them because they’re classy.  They used them because they’re bloody cheap.  So if you don’t mind feeling like you have to delouse, go ahead and game them back.

This is going to fall off Google’s archives quickly, as eBay has suspended his account.  Virginia Tech gunman Cho Seung-Hui was offering for sale on Half.com, under the alias blazers5505, the following books:

• Micro Fiction
• Oates’s The Female Of The Species
• Horror novel Hell House
• Jean-Paul Sartre: Basic Writings
• John Donne’s Poetry
• Best of HP Lovecraft
• Men, Women, and Chainsaws: Gender in the Modern Horror Film
• Ten Little Indians, and
• Sabbath Night In The Church Of The Piranha

No judgment of his tastes is implied by posting the list, it’s just going to be forever-lost data in a few hours.  (Archive of search).

I was watching Niall today.  A couple of cute stories:

We were talking, and to say a silly word, I said “Aardvark”.  He didn’t know what an aardvark is, which is reasonable.  I asked him, and he came up with a creative answer.  He held up a yellow rain boot, and explained that an aardvark is a kind of shoe, and described some of its characteristics.  I told him it was an animal and asked him if he’d like to see a picture.  He did, and he thought it was cool.

I asked him to guess what it ate.  I forget his guess, but I told him that it mostly ate ants and termites.  Our exchange follows:

N:  Can I eat ants and termites?

J:  Well, they’re really not the best food for little boys.

N:  Why?

J:  Well, some people do eat ants.  Sometimes they cover them in chocolate.  It’s just that they’re better food for aardvarks.

N:  Can I have chocoloate-covered ants?

J:  Maybe.

N:  Can I have chocolate-covered ants today?

J:  That may be beyond my powers of procurement.

N:  How about a chocolate-covered cookie?

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Then, we were playing:

N:  Can you put you on your shoulders?

J:  Can I put me on my shoulders?

N:  No.  Can you put me on my shoulders.

J:  Can I put you on your shoulders?

N:  No!  Can you put me on your shoulders?

J:  Yes.

Pronouns are hard.

Hmmm.  Amazon: 92% reassuring, 8% not at all reassuring.

Got some tricky ones in March.  Myanmar was searching for My hamsters keep biting each other in Google.  Saint Thomas and Principe was looking at my post about poisoned zoo animals.  And, ever popularly, .name hit my Lacuna Coil trackback, in addition to a terrorism post, a Modafinil post, a post about Jerry Falwell, Kill Bill, and many other trackbacks (probably spamming).

164 down, just 100 to go

(Cool, Four-Walled World just came on my music rotation.)

University of Wisconsin — Madison: Go for the cheese, stay for the white girls.

He’ll save children, but not the British children (NSFW).

My household ISP’s name resolution server is down.  Drat.  It has gotten to the previously-inconceivable place where I would rather give up electric lighting than web access.  If anything is a sign of the information age having arrived, this is it.

I can browse on my phone and access my email (all specialized GMail options are lousy on a phone, but that’s a story for a day when I can touch-type the account, rather than use a phone keyboard.)

“Its translucent color so alluring and taste and aroma so gentle and mellow offer admiring feelings of a graceful lady.  Enjoy soft and juicy Kasugai Muscat Gummy.”