I don't know how long I was waiting for this overly firm tomato to ripen (two weeks?), but today I decided to just go ahead and eat it until my first bite revealed that my tomato was filled with sprouting seeds.

I completed the tedious task of searching through and deleting all of my messages on Facebook—Inbox and Sent Messages alike—but I never found a single unread message and Facebook still says I have one.  And that's just one of many problems Facebook seems to be having recently.  Searching messages by name tonight—either typed or selected from the dynamic drop-down menu—returned no results whatsoever even when I had just seen messages from each corresponding person in my Inbox and Sent Messages (before I deleted all of my messages, obviously).  Facebook keeps displaying chat windows without any messages, whether newly sent, newly received, or from a previous session. The feeds sometimes show the same items more than once each.  Notification messages have ended without objects (they were incomplete sentences).  And notification links about comments now lead to pages full of irrelevant items instead of directly to their corresponding items.

Facebook, what is going on?!

I suppose I shouldn't be surprised to see Microsoft promoting its own proprietary format over formal standards (HTML/XHTML and CSS) as well as a competing de facto standard (Adobe Flash), but it is rather annoying as I am not inclined to install a new browser plug-in just to view an archive of images even if they do include informational overlays—especially since Bing homepages are initially presented as standard CSS-styled XHTML. Bah.

Who puts theft-prevention strips directly on the pages of books? The book-defacing employees or agents of Borders and Barnes & Noble. These ones usually seem to peel off without doing much damage, which is good because they're thick and Borders people seem prone to sloppily slapping them right over content pages. The ones at Barnes & Noble are actually much worse, but sadly, they also sometimes place them directly on pages (I have even seen one right on the page of a sketchbook!) or uncoated inner cover paper.

I prefer for these to not be on my walls, ceilings, floors, furniture, or anywhere else in my apartment.

By the way, just so there is no misunderstanding, this spider is for Molly Holzschlag (@mollydotcom), who claims to like spiders—not for some other Molly.