It seems I am 96% percent female.
http://www.mikeonads.com/2008/07/13/using-your-browser-url-history-estimate-gender/

Banned Book Project (via slanttruth)
How it works: these are the 110 top banned books. Bold what you’ve read, italicize what you’ve read part of.

#1 The Bible
#2 Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain
#3 Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes
#4 The Koran
#5 Arabian Nights
#6 Tom Sawyer by Mark Twain
#7 Gulliver’s Travels by Jonathan Swift
#8 Canterbury Tales by ( Read more... )

I have always thought that music about other music is among the most absurd things masquerading as art, but today I realized something which is going to require me either to accept an unpleasant truth about myself, or to acquiesce to the self-referential mania of pop music.  As I read White Oleander (NAMMP!  How we all crave validation of our ( Read more... )

"If you can't say something nice, don't say nothing at all."  --Thumper ( Read more... )

How much money is there in bumper stickers ( Read more... )

HAVE YOU EVER?

01. Bought everyone in the bar a drink
02. Swam with wild dolphins
03. Climbed a mountain
04. Taken a Ferrari for a test drive
05. Been inside the Great Pyramid
06. Held a tarantula
07. Taken a candlelit bath with someone
08. Said ‘I love you’ and meant it
09. Hugged a tree
10. Bungee jumped.
11. Visited Paris
12. Watched a lightning ( Read more... )

Reposted from http://blog.foreignpolicy.com/node/8071 because I think it's interesting.
The most important election you're not talking about

from FP Passport - blogging on global news, politics, economics and ideas by Christine Y. Chen


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I am told that I owe something like $600 extra for my French 101 class because I am not a California resident.  I was going to go in and angrily wave my California state income tax return at them, but then I looked it up, and unless my parents/wife/self is stationed in CA with the military, or one of my parents won the Congressional Medal of Honor ( Read more... )

It's been raining for several days nonstop now.  Looks to continue through the weekend.  This has really put a damper on wanting to do outdoor activities of any kind, including biking, surfing, enjoying the backyard, walking to work, or for that matter going to work at all.  Luckily I have a comfortable living room and a few books to read ( Read more... )