I propose an "all-purpose counter-protest" meme:

Equal Rights for Robots

Inspired by Charles Kline. (It seems to me that this could be used by folks on all sides of various issues, as easily by people I disagree with as by reasonable people ... folks who agree with me ( Read more... )

"Hey, what's the name of that tune ... uh, the one that goes da Da dee deedle dum, da Dee dee Dada diddle Dum?"

There exist search engines for melodies; you enter, by various means, a ( Read more... )

It was worth closing down all my browser windows to install the latest Javascript plugin on the bedroom Linux machine (despite my continued vague distrust of Javascript, like Dr. McCoy's unease about the Transporter), just to watch this rant about Pachelbel's Canon in D (via cellio and siderea, who both got it from ian_gunn).

Fellow musicians and music lovers, you ( Read more... )

I had a Swiss Army Knife as a child, and I thought it was pretty darned nifty ... but it was nothing like THIS !

( Spotted in skredle's journal, who got it from fragbert.)

By way of a link from cortejo: "Goldihat and the Three Peers", by Maister Iago ab Adam. "Once upon a time there were three Peers: a Birdy Peer, a Shrubby Peer, and a Chivy Peer. One morning Shrubby Peer and Chivy Peer awoke to find that Birdy Peer had stayed up all night preparing an elaborate breakfast of porridge [...]" Enjoy. (May be a bit ( Read more... )

I'm in a sort of in-between state: enough of my energy has come back to really really want to start Getting Things Done, but am still moving more slowly than I'd like. I'm making progress on a few bits of my severely backlogged to-do list, less quickly than I'd like but with a feeling of relief at making any progress for a change.

In between, I ( Read more... )

Just in case any of you haven't already seen this since Friday, here's a culinary link for the holiday: Easturducken (Easter turducken), though it's bunny-chick-egg instead of turkey-duck-chicken, so other names have been suggested, such as "bunpeegg". "Making Easter turducken is, fortunately, much easier ( Read more... )

Still feeling crappy; trying to get past a pounding headache ... but didn't want to leave this for the next time I get around to a 'link sausage' entry, given the sorts of friends I've got (though it was published fifteen months ago so many of you may have already seen it): Norse 'Intelligent Design'. With author's commentary. (Spotted in a ( Read more... )

[I'm handing this off to the 'at' daemon, so here's hoping I haven't screwed up the HTML somewhere... I've I have, I'll fix it after I wake up.]

• Porn Fonts -- need I actually need to say more? (Okay, I'll say ( Read more... )

I don't feel like saving this until I've got another "link sausage" entry ready to post, so for this afternoon's entertainment I give you this link to: King Kong v. Iron Chef Godzilla!

"Godzilla! A legend and word of fear in Tokyo Cuisine, Godzilla specialized in barebcuing things with his terrible radioactive breath. He retired during the ( Read more... )