This is pretty much only for stormfeather and sefieslj, but: You can watch the Persona 4 anime on Hulu. I've only seen the first couple of minutes, but it got good marks here.

The only revelation I've had is watching the opening credits -- wait, that *entire* song was in English? Not just Japanese with occasional English words thrown in? Whoa. I never knew.

This looks like Freddie Mercury, and a slightly sparkly Darth Vader. Is this real?

http://sawb.soup.io/post/124984908/We-are-the-champions

Hawks outside my window, probably 40' away. The one on the left didn't stay long, but I have a ton of pictures of the one on the right preening. (Or, "looking pregnant", as reesei put it.)


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Ever since getting a bird feeder (and a yard), I've paid more attention to the nature columns in the local paper. Their bird watching column in the Sunday paper does a good job, by and large. Sure, I've heard conflicting versions of the story of why we're seeing robins in Columbus in the winter -- one version says that invasive bushes bring ( Read more... )

The joys of neighborhood networking: "I'm sorry, Khedron, my girls are busy tomorrow. But I think C. just returned home from being an au pair in Germany, maybe she's available?" And now we have babysitting for MLK day. My neighborhood rocks ( Read more... )

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All Kindle users should get the Magic Catalog, which makes downloading books from Project Gutenberg very, very easy!

(Found via this review of the Kindle 3 from ars technica.)

A co-worker forwarded this rant from Charlie Stross about steampunk. Forwarding along to everyone else (and to myself, really, for later reading).

Hah! This is funny. "I've never allowed my music to be used in a game before," but an Entertainment Weekly review of NBC's The Office changed his mind. Alluding to an episode in which characters mention a Rock Band featuring Billy Joel, "the critic wrote something like, 'God forbid that ever should happen.' So I called my people and said, 'Get me ( Read more... )

Without giving too much away, here, have a poll!

[ETA] Everyone, my apologies. In case there was confusion, that's just a fragment of the sentence from the website, not the entire thing. So, no need to worry about capitalization, fragmentation, etc. I was just attempting to focus on the punctuation.

Poll enthusiastic punctuation