Shorts

The world isn't really going to end in 2012. That's apparently a western interpretation of one Mayan ruin, but ask any Mayan what's going to happen in 2012 and they won't know what you're talking about:

Archaeologist Guillermo Bernal of Mexico's National Autonomous University.... notes there are other inscriptions at Mayan sites for dates far beyond 2012 — including one that roughly translates into the year 4772.

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Letters of Note is an attempt to gather and sort fascinating letters, postcards, telegrams, faxes, and memos. Scans/photos where possible. Fakes will be sneered at. Updated 2-3 times every weekday.

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Jodi Skeris, a cast member of the Un-Scripted Theater Company's upcoming production of Let It Snow, was on a date October 30, 2006 in New York with a friend of 2007 Let It Snow cast member Molly Robertson when she got hit by a car and thrown through a Daffy's store window. Not only did she survive, but she wrote a very funny song about it too. Read her blog about it here (you can also listen to the song there). I will try to embed the song below, but I don't know if it will work.