It's in today's SF Chronicle, and here online.

Sad to say I missed two of the twenty-one questions, and some I wasn't sure of but got via a combination of luck and quiz-taking skill. I do question whether I really got one of the questions wrong given the set of available answers.

If turned into a monster, 27% would be a vampire, 22% a witch, 12% a werewolf, 6% a zombie, 25% something else.

-- PPP Halloween poll.

I'm not sure if dragons count as monsters. But in any case if I was going to turn into a bad-ass monster regardless, I think I'd have to go with a Balrog.

Occupy Mordor. The Movement Grows.

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Body-modification artists cut the tops of young people's ears and sew them back in pointed shape.

-- AARP magazine

Advancements in cosmetic surgery have made it possible for you yourself to have some cute pointed ears...

Several real body modification professionals do actually perform this modification, including Russ Foxx from Vancouver, British ( Read more... )

Meg Whitman (Californian gubernatorial candidate) has now contributed as much of her own money to her campaign as it cost to produce the first Spiderman movie. About $140,000,000.

All in all, I'd rather she had made The Hobbit (which, I hear rumored, will be the highest cost movie ever to have been made -- perhaps in nominal dollars, but I'm not

At least in Pennsylvania, Kentucky, Arkansas and Hawaii ( Read more... )

Here's a listing of all the famous questions people came up with, along with their origins (except for a couple Google was not able to find for me). (In order of them being mentioned in the comments ( Read more... )

For some completely random reason this meme came into my head just now.
The two that immediately jumped to mind were

"Dr. Livingston, I presume?"
"What has it got in its pocketses?"

and then a moment later

"African or European?"

What popped immediately (or soon thereafter) into your mind?

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