"The countries of the world in their own languages and scripts; with official names, capitals, flags, coats of arms, political divisions, national anthems, and translations of the countries and capitals into many languages." <--Extremely cool site, and I bet you learn something you didn't know about your own country. The site header is cool as well ( Read more... )

No cut for this photo, despite it being too rich for my blood! *g*


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( One of the most awesome full-back wing tattoos I've seen - really unusual design )

General stuff that I've been looking at/thinking about recently.

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In a 'discussion' about FaceBook on Twitter, Kyle Cook of matchbox twenty commented: "But I don't necessarily want to make small talk with random folks from my past ( Read more... )

Today was one of those days where you look at the clock at lunchtime and think, "I just got here!" and seemingly the next time you look is when it's past time to go home and you think, "But I just came back from lunch!" Oy vey. I acquired a new weekly project and while it will go faster with some practice, it's going to be a much bigger time-sucker ( Read more... )

The ante-penultimate day of the month seems like a good time for posting a link salad. Not least b/c I have a fuckton of tabs and windows open, and this posting window has also been open for over four hours with no words in it. Fuck you, blank draw.

Punk Rock Domestics. "Feel more like a home wrecker than a home designer? Tired of 10,000 shows on ( Read more... )

truepenny (who is both an English professor and a published author) has written some Hamlet slash. It is melancholy and wonderful, and the fact that it exists at all gives me joy.

More BHB songs. Some kind soul has ripped what's on their myspaz and put a zip file up. I... am suddenly listening to boypop. Damn dancers. Although considering their combined ( Read more... )

Because some form of salad seems necessary on a spectacularly sunny, warm day, and plus I've had most of these URLs open for days and days now and would like to unclutter my poor Firefox so I can find stuff I *haven't* read yet. *g*

An Excellent Adventure, an essay by Donnie Kay about the socio-political influences that have helped shape Green Day ( Read more... )