Read many interesting things this morning, rather than getting up and doing anything.

So I commend these links to you, so you too can waste large amounts of time reading interesting things on the internet.

( lengthy Mindful Link Propogation )

I decided the other week, during the Secretary of the Internet story line, that I needed to make some xkcd icons. These are what I brewed up.
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xkcd confused me today. I recognized the references of the individual panels, and, after a second, that there was rhyme and meter, but I was clearly missing something.

This is the missing piece of information.

oh no! First, Sulawesi ended up in the Blogipelago. Bad enough. But who put Sulawesi in the microwaves?

Hey! 1453 is prime!

I didn't actually figure that out in less than a minute, but I should have. I checked all the primes up to 31 and then said, I bet that's prime and looked it up. Once I thought about it, I realized I had given up one prime to soon, as 37 is the last prime less then √1453

Party at the corner of Dudley and Cedar, Cambridge Massachusetts, this september 23, at 2:38 pm?

Anyone know what's there?

Also: first look footage for Golden Compass (including panserbjorn), via whump

and Pirates 3 trailer.