You all know the cliché of the trashy paperback romance novels that fall open to the well-thumbed sex scenes, but is it really true? Or does it contain approximately as much realism as the trashy paperback romance novels themselves?

Hypothesis: Sex scenes are not the leading cause of broken spines in trashy paperback romance novels.

Methodology ( Read more... )

I am totally a Mary Sue from ff.net and I don't even care: I love my Slytherin t-shirt from Hot Topic ( Read more... )

In English, Henry is a tennis enthusiast, but en français, he plays (among other things) cricket:

Becket. ... My prince, when you play tennis, do you simply sit back and let things work out. Do you wait for the ball to hit your racket and say "It's bound to come this way eventually"?

King. Ah, now just a minute. You're talking about things ( Read more... )

My ickle brother made me a bracelet out of a fork.

Wow. So it turns out that the fabulous picture that I scanned from Newsweek some months back depicting Bill Gates lounging on his desk, lobbing floppies at the camera has a companion shot of Bill snuggling with an IBM monitor that is even better than the first one. Both can be conveniently found here.

Just ... wow.