From perpetual kid: Remote-controlled solar system light! How cool and educational is that? = Using science for good!
nanda: this little clock takes off and runs away when you've hit the snooze button too many times. = Using robotics for evil.
Willow, reading the course calendar: Ah! "Introduction to the Modern Novel. A survey study of twentieth century novelists." Open to freshmen. You might like that.Trying to be productive. Back later.
Buffy: "Introduction to the Modern Novel"? I'm guessing I'd probably have to read the modern novel.
Willow: Maybe more than one.
Buffy: I like books. I just don't want to take on too much. Do they have an introduction to the modern blurb?
Witold Rybczynski. car porn. typing games. semi-wacky news. funny videos. i love firefox.
It always comes down to which browsers I have a crush on.
Things which can be found on the interweb:
I am feeling even more rock and roll than usual. This shall be my new generic profile picture. We all have the right to take fifty photos of ourselves before we find one we like. Our online reputations are at stake, people! VOGUE!
7-Elevens are ostensibly being converted into Kwik-E-Marts as marketing for the new Simpsons movie.
Pot Roast Is Political: Domestic Ideology in Victorian and World War II Cookbooks By: Parkinson, Kirsten L.; Midwestern Folklore, 2003 Fall; 29 (2): 12-24. (journal article)
Feeding the Imperial Appetite: Imperial Knowledge and Anglo-Indian Domesticity By: Procida, Mary; Journal of Women's History, 2003 Summer; 15 (2): 123-49. (journal article)
'One Quart Milk, Five Eggs I Should Say': Marginalia in Anglo-Canadian Cookbooks By: Golick, Greta; Variants: The Journal of the European Society for Textual Scholarship, 2004; 2-3: 95-113. (journal article)
The Rhetoric of Cookbooks in Eighteenth-Century England By: Norris, Christine Michele; Dissertation Abstracts International, Section A: The Humanities and Social Sciences, 2004 Sept; 65 (3): 917. Purdue U, 2003. (dissertation abstract)
Domesticating Imperialism: Curry and Cookbooks in Victorian England By: Zlotnik, Susan; pp. 72-87 IN: Floyd, Janet (ed. and introd.); Forster, Laurel (ed. and introd.); The Recipe Reader: Narratives-Contexts-Traditions. Aldershot, England: Ashgate; 2003. ix, 246 pp. (book article)
I could try to explain to you why I was even searching for this... but it would never make sense anyway. The article I actually need, How to write a concise yet fascinating blurb about Eliza Smith, the author of the first cookbook ever published in the United States, is not on the list. (By the way, that article would be published in the journal, Obscure Information Compiled Specifically For Jocelyn, on the Off-Chance She Might Someday Need It. I know why I subscribe to it... but why do those five other people?)
For no reason other than funniness: sacrilicious!
From Esquire: The Napkin Fiction Project.
An online exhibition called The Willand Suitcase Exhibit. The contents of people's suitcases as they were admitted to a mental institution.
Nigerian scam email generator. Doesn't have quite the customizability I would appreciate, but still useful, if you get tired of working. As Homer would say, "I can't take HIS money. I can't print my OWN money. I have to WORK for money." Well, not anymore!
Slate asks: Will corporate ownership ruin Television Without Pity? As much as I love TWOP, I think I can answer the titular question in a single word: inevitably. Still, let us not depair. As one internet superpower falls, a new one rises to take its place. Think of it as the recap equivalent to the end of World War II.
What's really in a chicken nugget? I am not sure why I feel compelled to include this page, other than the fact that, like the previous link, the question can be answered in a single word. In this case, "toxins."
I wish I could tell you where this graphic comes from, but I can't. I myself know not; stumbleupon found it. I have always wondered this, though; I feel fascinated.
There is a Douglas Coupland book where he talks about the point, now crossed, where humanity's effect on the planet becomes irreversible. I tried to find it and failed. So just imagine a Douglas Coupland quote here:
I love this wikipedia article on The Rhinoceros Party of Canada. My parents have nostalgaic stories of voting for this party in their heydey. The list of campaign promises of the RPC is particularly gratifying. Campaign promises included...
From BoingBoing: Homeowner Holdouts. People who refused to sell their homes so the land could be redeveloped. Inspired by the current news story of a Chinese woman whose house is now inaccessible, in the middle of a building site.
I may just be feeling particularly vulnerable today, but this video from national geographic almost made me cry. A hippo and an antelope can fall in love, but where would they live?
OK, I know my whole generation has this nostalgia for Choose Your Own Adventure books that can barely be sated. This entry is thus just a drop in the bucket. But I am doing my best...
There is a CYOA Wiki in which you can add pages. Much like the original CYOA books, literary quality is not guaranteed, and declines the further "in" you go.
Jeremy David acts out the will of the website reader, implementing the CYOA model into his own life! And hilarity ensues!
From Something awful: Choose Your Own Adventure Books That Never Quite Made It. My favourite is entitled, "In Soviet Russia, The Adventure Chooses You."
Pridnestrovie is the Obscure European Country of the day! "Part of The New Europe!"
[Edited Saturday, March 24 to add: Places that don't exist: an interesting BBC documentary about Pridnestrovie.]
