1. Secrets of the 7 Basic Blog Posts by Lore Sjöberg of the Brunching Shuttlecocks
   
   I think I should start using those 7 types as LJ tags. My favourite is probably Type 4: People are dumb!.
   
   
2. A strange sunset. What makes a sunset look like that? (I'm looking for guesses, not looking at boingboing for answers)
   
   
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I can't remember who I got any of these from. Apologies. They're just tabs sitting in my browser, and they've been there for days.

10 Things That Are (Almost) Impossible To Do With Your Body

Any Gleekers on my flist!?

The Homosexual in AmericaA Time magazine article from Friday, Jan. 21, 1966. It's like reading something from another planet -- a ( Read more... )

Dorothy: Do you think there could be wild animals in here?
Tin Woodsman: Perhaps.
Scarecrow: Even ones that, that eat... straw?
Tin Woodsman: Some, but mostly lions and tigers and bears. And a walrus.
Dorothy: Lions?
Scarecrow: And tigers?
Tin Woodsman: And bears.
Dorothy: Oh my!
Tin Woodsman: And a walrus.

This post is for felizblahdeblah, who doesn't have enough cats. And for everyone who thought my present for k might have been an article about Turkish Fishing Cats. Because Fishing Cats of all nationalities are cool ( Read more... )

"There are terrorists -- in your living room. They're in your iPod, they're in your computer, they're in every commercial break."

A new social advocacy campaign from Adbusters? No, it's the Battlecry!

So get Branded by God! Listen to the awesome and inspiring informational video, created with all the zeal and skill of the finest late night ( Read more... )

Weird Al's newest video can be seen here, for now anyway ( Read more... )

Because I was sucked into some discussion of artistic provincialism and cartoon/comic-book "scenes" today (oh joy, I have since been berated and locked out of the entry! Boo-urns!), my mind is on three of my favourite contemporary print (as opposed to web-based, even though all three are also on the web) cartoon artists ( Read more... )

And now for something different; soothing electronica combined with innovative video -- good for relaxing after 5 solid hours of ganglia-frying meetings and probably other unnatural disasters as well:

1. Speaking of meetings... sexy pigs and corporate boardrooms!: http://www.pleix.net/ ( Read more... )

Work continues. I don't know what this says about my state of mind, but I have been listening to this site all day: http://www.iserenity.com/cat/cat.htmRead more... )