A waiter came from the other side of the restaurant today to say I have an infectious laugh. I don’t think you usually want to be told you’re infectious …

From a Post-Dispatch assistant managing editor: “We’re raising the newsstand price of the daily paper to 75 cents on Monday, Oct. 1.” It’s not the first to increase daily single-copy prices: • The Baltimore Sun increased to 75 cents from 50 cents. • The New York Times increased to $1.25 from $1. • The Wall [...]

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By request: Catnip is a perennial herb in the mint family. It’s native to Europe; in the U.S., it’s a weed. Some cats (the response is inherited) go crazy for the scent of catnip (actually a chemical in the plant called nepetalactone), which most people cannot sense. Cats will “rub it, roll over it, kick [...]

The New York Times posts its first video letter to the editor. Come on, you know your paper wants to do it too. It figures that the first video letter would be made by an actual director (and more than 10 minutes long).