If you, like me, would enjoy a break from certain topics repeated all over the place until it seems like nowhere is safe, Emergency Kittens, WeRateDogs™, and A Bear are all quality Twitter feeds with lots of silliness and minimal coverage of all that other stuff.

:)

Here are two videos that make me completely lose it, laughing:

Duck Army

(the original vine, as far as i can tell. video autoplays with sound when the page loads; click the video to pause/stop)

Mythbusters' Adam Savage gets a hold of some ducks(video also autoplays, but on mute; click it once to turn on the sound. trust me, the sound is what ( Read more... )

From Neil himself, there is a tiny blind owl currently popular on the Internet whose eyes are exactly like Dream of the Endless's.

Pictures for evidence

I know many of you are not comic book readers, but I have loved Gaiman's Sandman series for over a decade; if you might be a comic book reader, and/or you might be interested in reading this ( Read more... )

Because I found a lot of things and also didn't do much with my day besides bike downtown and back!

- This video about being gender queer made me nod, and laugh, and nod again.

- This story about a horse being able to say goodbye to her human friend made me a little weepy, but in a good way.

- This video of an enthusiastic dog teaching a human ( Read more... )

I wanted to give you some kind of a post tonight, but I am not feeling up to writing much. So I said to the Internet, Internet! Give me something interesting ( Read more... )

I don't have much to say tonight, so instead I will offer you this nonsensical yet very cool little production:

Action Bill - A LEGO Stop Motion Short FilmBasically William Shakespeare is struggling with writer's block, and then William Shatner comes in a giant robot from the future and tries to kill him. But killing Shakespeare is not as easy as ( Read more... )

Interesting Thing Number the First: Amtrak Residency

Literally Amtrak is offering free residencies to writers for two to five days' worth of travel! I am going to apply. There are only 24 spots, but this is the first time they've done this, maybe it will become a Thing. ...But then it will be more competitive. I should apply soon ( Read more... )

It looks like important things happened on the Internet today; I was gone from my laptop for much of the day, and when I returned I opened up Chrome, not Firefox, for work. Work took me right up to dinner, which was late, and now I'm running up against my get-off-the-Internet! deadline of 21:00. (Which I'm not going to make. It's a soft deadline. ( Read more... )

Meh. It's been really bad in the evenings lately, to the point where being online is frustrating. Hopefully we'll get this fixed soon; we know what the problem is, it's just a matter of following through.

Meantime, here are a few links to various websites I wandered about today:

Richard Sherman explains what people mean when they call him a "thug ( Read more... )

(I'm mentally working on maybe a more serious entry, that doesn't include videos or quotes or songs, but it's not ready yet. Or, more precisely, I'm not writing it yet. So here are more passing-along-links things.)

The Goat (2013)--A Short Comedy Film, is indeed a short (2:20) film that is very sweet, about two roommates and a small goat who comes ( Read more... )