either spontaneous human combustion or a pocket nuclear bomb

[extemporanea]

Gah. Actual sleep patterns appear to be a luxury in which I am not permitted to indulge. Monday night's drunken movie-watching1 had its inevitable effect, viz. waking up abruptly at about 2.30am when I actually sobered up, and being unable to recapture sleep beyond a fretful doze, punctuated by affection assaults from the hobbit and concomitant cat

Comments

[strawberryfrog]

"Your title is: “The Cybertrons”

In an ancient one-way spaceflight, a young journeyman inventor stumbles across a magic diadem which spurs him into conflict with murderous robots, with the help of a girl who's always loved him and her cleavage, culminating in eternal love professed without irony."

I think I actually read that one years ago. By Andre Norton.

[extemporanea]

Absolutely not. Andre Norton never writes about cleavage. Ancient, spaceflight, diadem and love without irony spot-on, though.

[mac1235]

Jo Clayton, Diadem series.

[strawberryfrog]

Pick two films containing RDJ. Find a common theme.

[extemporanea]

RDJ.

[egadfly]

Ha! You're insisting on RDJ on principle, aren't you? If you just wanted to see RDJ you'd have taken strawberryfrog's pragmatic suggestion. Busted ;-)

[extemporanea]

That's a fascinating case of dual-level reading, actually: I thought Frog was pointing out, slightly snidely, that RDJ's movies are all over the place and don't offer any reasonably coherent theme, which is actually a fair comment. I also think it's a fair comment to insist that RDJ is himself a theme, even if it's a "chameleon actors" theme.

Fair cop, though, I was also definitely pushing the RDJ thing on general principles, because it's amusing my tiny, stress-addled brain to make a completely nonsensical issue of it.

[stringgeek]

Information is Beautiful! I especially like the OkCupid! graph of how to get replies for online dating.

Also, Twitter stats--the reasons I'm not on Twitter!

Of course, you can use facts to prove anything. :-)

[extemporanea]

Particularly if you're trying to prove that facts are beautiful :>.

I love the billion-dollar block one. It demonstrates in simple graphical format that human society is fundamentally insane.

[egadfly]

Ignore the Twitter stats. General stats may be meaningful for large groups but not for small, unusual populations - such as your friends. Twitter is exactly what you make it, which in your case I hope would be, and in our case I hope is, highly worthwhile. Try it out for a month, see if you like it :-)

[mwotn]

I find the one on the Afghan war particularly interesting - proves the virtue of guerrilla tactics, doesn'e?

This is also highly amusing, as well as pretty:
http://www.informationisbeautiful.net/visualizations/timelines/