Please comment with something you think I should do or try to do in 2008. Big or small, silly or earth-changing.

Alright, you creative and humorous people, caption the following photos for me. Click through for a large version. I'm gonna make some LOLcats and whore out my kitties around the Intrawebs. Wikipedia will even help you out with formatting guidelines for LOLCat speakI promise a really nice Christmas card to anyone who comes up with a good caption ( Read more... )

[via these movie essay prompts] Describe a famous location from a movie that you have visited (Bodega Bay, California, where the action in The Birds took place, for example). Was it anything like the way it was in the film? Why or why not?

Why, what an excellent way to introduce the Kill Bill church, which is located in the desert just to the east ( Read more... )

From xterminalGo to IMDB.com and look up 10 of your favorite movies ( Read more... )

mrbungle made his f-list ask him offbeat biography questions, and heck, I'm just going to gank the best ones to ask of all of you. Watch out as lagizma and mrbungle start the latest lj meme craze! Post in your own journal! Make us famous! Maybe the Un-American Committee (which I KNOW monitors my lj, due to my vast socio-political influence) will start watching YOU ( Read more... )

Freakonomics Blog is running a contest to guess the next Oprah book club pick.

Here is the book’s page on Amazon.com, which says that the book is published by Vintage Books (one of Random House’s paperback imprints).

B&N.com, meanwhile, says the forthcoming selection is a Knopf book, but I am guessing that is not quite right: Knopf is a ( Read more... )

"If you don't like someone, how they hold their spoon will bother you. If you truly like someone, they could upend their soup into your lap and you wouldn't care a bit."

crackedmyself asks if we agree or disagree.

I know where I stand, so discuss away in the comments and I'll chime in.

Language is evolutionary, right? Words in the Bible and in Shakespeare have different meanings than their modern forms ( Read more... )

Men's urinals fascinate me. There, I've said it.

The highlight of my elementary school career was the day in second grade when Mrs. Biggs let all of the girls walk in and look at the boys' bathroom and all the boys scope out the girls bathroom. It was scandalously fascinating. Of course, Jeremy Freeman took it a little too far and actually used ( Read more... )

What was your name in your high school language class ( Read more... )