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| Friday, November 18, 2005 |
This weekend there's a psychic festival in town, and if Glenna has her way we'll be there to get our past lives critiqued or our auras recolored or whatever. Good times. Say hi if you're there!
From the Graveworm: are ghosts really all that scary? Also, an interview with Daniel Ash. (Bauhaus is in Cleveland tomorrow. Ooooh. Ahhh.)
The rest of today's entry consists of some truly odd links I've been saving up and can't fit in anywhere else. Random Friday fun! Have at them!
Have a spiffy weekend, everyone. See you Monday.
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| Thursday, November 17, 2005 |
Today, we bring you library news from around the country.
And lastly, if you're as sick of people misusing the word "literally" as I am, you will love this weblog which points out the craziness as it happens. Tomorrow: links from others!
Jinnet @
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| Wednesday, November 16, 2005 |
Today: spooky tech. The exception is the Lego 3D Designer, which lets you create anything you want and then order the bricks to make your design a reality. This is not to say that you couldn't create something spooky, of course...
I think the new Olympic mascots are kind of spooky, myself. I also think the Chinese have a lot of nerve including a Tibetan antelope in the mix, seeing as how they are not exactly great protectors of all things Tibet. Grrr.
You can pretend to battle the mascots, or anyone else you want, courtesy of the Surrealist monster battle. According to the surrealists, my monster is an armored blob. Er.
In a great parody of a Chick tract, the Cthulhu witnesses convince the nonbelievers that yes, you do want to be among the first to die. Lovecraft would be so proud.
The Graveworm beat me to posting this, but this study of the effectiveness of tin foil helmets should be widely disseminated, I believe.
Forbes is giving you an opportunity to email your future self. Yes, really! Remind yourself of what 2005 was like. You'll either cry or laugh about it twenty years from now.
Alternatively, you could go all Back to the Future-esque and email yourself plans to build a flying saucer. The flux capacitor plans are optional.
In London, you can dine at the Cafe in the Crypt at St. Martin's. How cool is that? Over on this side of the pond, the secrets of the Haunted Mansion are online for the brave and/or the inquisitive.
Jinnet @
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| Tuesday, November 15, 2005 |
I've been felled with the sinus headache from hell all day. But I did find a fun time-waster:
You can make your own at the TekTek Dream Creator.
(This does look like me, actually. I had different hair, but Bunny said it needed to be "messier." Thanks, sweetheart.)
Jinnet @
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| Monday, November 14, 2005 |
Have you ever looked at a book cover and thought that you could do better? Well, here's your chance! Penguin is looking for photographs to illustrate the covers of a few books by Hunter S. Thompson, Virginia Woolf and others. It's like Jones Soda, only with a more literary (and potentially more permanent) bent.
Synesthesia alert! If you've ever wondered what color a word is, the Color Code uses web images to give you an answer. The only problem with this idea is that all the colors tend to blend into a beige brown blah. Folderol looks sort of like a cool taupe.
When an artist starts working on Barbies, great things happen. Check out the version of Death!
We went out to dinner with some friends over the weekend, some of whom smoke, and they nearly walked out with the chef's lighter accidentally. With this in mind, the Six Degrees of Smoking project, in which lighters travel from person to person with photographic evidence, seems like a good plan - if the people remember to take the photos, at any rate!
Remember actress Daryl Hannah? She's gone off and invented a board game called Liebrary. It's true!
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