Curiosities from around the web

I just added a links list that I can update whenever I want, so this is the last post like this for awhile. But I just got home from Chicago, and I had the opportunity to either write some pithy prose or dye my hair.

I dyed my hair.

So here you go:
Soda? Pop? A map of regional beverage nicknames.

Watching Dwight every Thursday on The Office? Awesome. Getting a phone call from Dwight on your phone? Even more awesome.

More palindromes than you will ever know what to do with. [via BoingBoing]

Everybody's linking these cute, disease-causing microbes.

Here you go, Mom. I'm unique:

HowManyOfMe.com

There is: 1 person with my name in the U.S.A. How many have your name?