This amused me, partly because the scenario is so specific:

I could survive for 54 seconds chained to a bunk bed with a velociraptor

Here's a fun little test:

84 words
Touch Typing
I scored lower on my first attempt, because I didn't quite understand how it worked - when you finish the line, you have to press the space bar to get your next line of words, and this process keeps going until your minute is up ( Read more... )

Following pozorvlak's example, some statistics:

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This is an interesting little quiz:


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Courtesy of pozorvlak, another book meme ( Read more... )

Doing the meme thing (via sulkyblue):

You Are Midnight
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Following sulkyblue's example, I see that there's another list of the "top 100 books". This time it's from The Telegraph, in conjunction with Waterstones; I'm not sure what the criteria for selection were. Anyway, I score about 12½ out of 100 from that list.

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Following a meme (as posted by bazzalisk, gaspodog, and billyabbott), here's the Science Fiction Book Club's list of the 50 most significant SF/fantasy novels from 1953-2002. The ones I've read are in bold; the ones I've started but not finished are in italics.

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Continuing my recent series of "meta" LiveJournal posts (i.e. posting about posting itself), here are my thoughts on the "gay rights" meme that was going round a few weeks ago. It's taken me a while to find time to do this, so it's not exactly topical anymore, but I think the general principles are still valid.

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I've just been to the cinema to watch V for Vendetta, which I thought was very good. I've read the TPB a few times (although not in the last couple of years), so I had some initial doubts after Alan Moore had done so much to distance himself from it. I'd say that the film and the comic are similar but distinct, and they are both good. It's not like ( Read more... )