Since when were you so generously inarticulate?

I am inexpressably happy, typing away and listening to my Lastfm station, which is playing a gorgeous moody mix of...er, mostly 1970s and early 80s punk and post-punk from Australia. I feel alive!

But suddenly I am crestfallen. Nay, distraught.

"Why do I have the musical taste of a fifty-year-old man?" I say to H. He has been working at the kitchen table, creating a sort of lightsaber thingie for his bike out of a cold cathode light (I know, right? He is a GENIUS. Hawt!!).

For a moment I think maybe he hasn't heard me. Then he nods.

"A bitter fifty-year-old man," he says, patiently and without looking up.

Closing Cultural Chasms: The Story of Rupert Murdoch's Media

From the always-brilliant CNN:

In Arab culture, throwing shoes at someone... is considered an insult.

Startlingly different from American culture, in which throwing shoes at someone is shorthand for "I would very much like to buy you a drink."

See CNN fail. Fail, CNN, fail!

Look, nobody's perfect. Certainly no proofreader is perfect. Certainly I am woefully far from that. But this is the blurb for the main story on CNN right now.

U.S. takes North Korea off terror list
The United States today removed North Korea from its list of states that sponsor terrorism. The two nations reached agreement "on an number of important verification measures" of North Korea's nuclear program, State Department spokesman Sean McCormack said.

On an number? Wow.

USA! USA!