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| Friday, August 04, 2006 |
Today: links from others! Thanks, everyone.
From Satori: Stephen Colbert causes chaos on Wikipedia - and gets his account revoked!
Also from Satori: hours of fun can be had with the church sign generator.
From Holly: Australia is using Barry Manilow to control its juvenile delinquents, Brazil is operating a penguin rescue mission, and the Field Museum in Chicago is having some nifty programs this fall with the help of National Geographic.
From Courtney: the Irregular WebComic imagines a political wiki gone awry. (This is a cool comic, if you haven't seen it before. They use Legos a lot!)
From Zazoo, a local story: hey, Cincinnatians, you know how they've torn up the area around UC and knocked down all the businesses on Calhoun over the last few years for that fancy new condo project? Well, uh, it might not happen. Great beautification plan, there, fellows!
From the Graveworm: check out The Amazing Screw-On Head, a new show which references both Lovecraft and steampunk in its description. Ooooh. Ahhhh.
Have a spiffy weekend, everyone! See you Monday.
Jinnet @
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| Thursday, August 03, 2006 |
Here's a nice cheerful link to start off the day: Congress is trying to get public libraries to ban access to chat rooms and "social networking sites" like MySpace and...Amazon. And a bunch of other sites. This should work out just great.
Along the same lines, WorkFriendly makes a webpage look, well, work-friendly. I wonder if it works for social networking sites.
Fortunately, some people appreciate the fighting librarians...
I could have sworn I'd mentioned From Old Books before, but I don't see it listed anywhere. If it's a repeat, it's a deserving one.
Objection! lets you write out your spurious accusation/spirited defense/inscrutable comment and have an anime character wave his arms about wildly. Here's the one Bunny sent me. I never knew he felt that way about Margaret Atwood.
Some random final links: we just found out that the world's longest yard sale, aka the 127 Yard Sale, started today and goes through Sunday. Isn't it early this year? Usually we're more prepared for it!
Also, if you remember the story of the hippo who bonded with the giant tortoise after losing its family, you'll love the weblog that their zoo publishes. Another hippo has been introduced into the group so that the young hippo can learn some hippo behaviors. It turns out that there's a bushbuck in the group, too. Someone really needs to start a book series about this crowd's adventures.
Tomorrow: links from others!
Jinnet @
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| Wednesday, August 02, 2006 |
A week or so ago, I was talking about Death Race 2000...and behold, they're now remaking it as Death Race 3000. This should be...interesting.
Slate has an interactive "buddy list" graphic that explains who's who in the Middle East and whether or not they get along. (I like the "it's complicated" icon.) Click on each square and get a pop-up explanation of the situation.
A young Pittsburgh boy is apparently the reincarnation of a WWII soldier. My dad always says that he thinks he was shot down in the Battle of Britain in a former life, so stuff like this intrigues me.
Speaking of Britain, there's a lot going on there right now. Yet another theory on the identity of Jack the Ripper has been publicized (this one fingers an immigrant as the villain); the Street Wars are going on in the alleyways of London; and this Saturday there's going to be, um, er, a masturbate-a-thon. All day. I'm just telling you here.
The hunt for the Holy Grail goes on, Da Vinci Code be damned, and there's now a tour you can take which incorporates the book's locations along with the original Holy Blood, Holy Grail spots, like Rennes-le-Chateau. (Admittedly, I'd love to see Rennes-le-Chateau. The place is bizarre.)
Jinnet @
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| Tuesday, August 01, 2006 |
Courtesy of Satori: get your handwriting analyzed! The results for both of us were rather surprisingly accurate.
The good people at Sesame Street are trying to help kids with parents in the military. In their depiction, Elmo's dad goes off to war. Let's hope his unit has some good camouflage outfits; Muppet fur can really stand out.
It's the end of an era: a new version of Monopoly skips all that pesky paper money and charges your ATM! No word yet on whether players can engage in identity theft.
Random planets zoom up to you in the Map of the Universe. Reloading brings up a different planet. It's all very surreal, like hitting the Infinite Improbability Drive.
And finally, for the introverts: sick of MySpace and Friendster and Vox and LiveJournal and FaceBook and all that sort of thing? Isolatr is for you!
Jinnet @
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| Monday, July 31, 2006 |
Today's high temperature: 96! Tomorrow's predicted high temperature: 98! Therefore, here's some stuff to do inside. You can display your old-fashioned slides in a new-fashioned illuminator, or retrofit your antique radio to accommodate your iPod, or convert your old television set into a fish tank. The possibilities are endless!
If you insist on going outside, Paris is featuring outdoor movies every night, which sounds awfully spiffy. If you're in England instead, check out the performance group Mimbre (not for those afraid of heights).
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