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Batty about bats
Dude. This bat has a tongue that is so long that it retracts into the bat's rib cage.
If that's not newsworthy, I don't know what is. *geeks out* And for extra win, the article includes a comparison picture with Gene Simmons. Hee!
ETA: more links and randomicity! Fair warning - most of these tidbits have been lying around in a Notepad file on my Desktop, and are of no real relevance and dubious interest.
1. Wikipedia's list of uncommon deaths
A remarkably fun way to pass time. Some of them are, like, the Darwin Awards for antiquity. Edward II's grisly fate was familiar from my world history class - oh, Miss Aguayo, why so awesome for telling us these things? I particularly enjoyed the tale of a Scottish king who died of septic shock after getting scratched by the decapitated head he tied to his saddle. Ah, irony - smells like cotton candy.
2. More people need to love on![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-community.gif)
the_rec_room. It's infinitely less WTF?! than most story-finding communities, and I enjoy pointing newbies in the right direction. Also, the more people who join, the better it is!
3. Things I learned while watching Doctor Who and detouring to Wikipedia to check an obscure fact: vexillology, the study of flags. Isn't that a great word? (can you tell that I love the embedded Wikipedia search engine in Firefox? Can you?)
4. If I must take physics, at least I have a book with problems involving the velocity of frightened ostrichs and startled armadillos, and a professor who constantly trips over things while igniting cotton ball bits and playing with gyroscopes. I will not, however, be taking it next semester, hallelujah.
5. I finished rereading Cartographer's Craft a few weeks ago, and I was struck by Sam's consistently wonderful use of female characters. Smart, competent, sexually confident without being loud about it - very modern women, people I'd like to be friends with. It's so nice not to be hit over the head with these things - with Sam's writing, it just seems so natural (as it should be) that I didn't even think about it until just now. *fangirls shamelessly*
6. My friend Nina told me that a haiku chatroom (?!) she belongs to makes everyone pass a literacy test before joining. Of course, people still ignore the rules of English but their fellows know they *could* be writing properly, so mocking rights are thereby preserved.
If that's not newsworthy, I don't know what is. *geeks out* And for extra win, the article includes a comparison picture with Gene Simmons. Hee!
ETA: more links and randomicity! Fair warning - most of these tidbits have been lying around in a Notepad file on my Desktop, and are of no real relevance and dubious interest.
1. Wikipedia's list of uncommon deaths
A remarkably fun way to pass time. Some of them are, like, the Darwin Awards for antiquity. Edward II's grisly fate was familiar from my world history class - oh, Miss Aguayo, why so awesome for telling us these things? I particularly enjoyed the tale of a Scottish king who died of septic shock after getting scratched by the decapitated head he tied to his saddle. Ah, irony - smells like cotton candy.
2. More people need to love on
the_rec_room. It's infinitely less WTF?! than most story-finding communities, and I enjoy pointing newbies in the right direction. Also, the more people who join, the better it is!3. Things I learned while watching Doctor Who and detouring to Wikipedia to check an obscure fact: vexillology, the study of flags. Isn't that a great word? (can you tell that I love the embedded Wikipedia search engine in Firefox? Can you?)
4. If I must take physics, at least I have a book with problems involving the velocity of frightened ostrichs and startled armadillos, and a professor who constantly trips over things while igniting cotton ball bits and playing with gyroscopes. I will not, however, be taking it next semester, hallelujah.
5. I finished rereading Cartographer's Craft a few weeks ago, and I was struck by Sam's consistently wonderful use of female characters. Smart, competent, sexually confident without being loud about it - very modern women, people I'd like to be friends with. It's so nice not to be hit over the head with these things - with Sam's writing, it just seems so natural (as it should be) that I didn't even think about it until just now. *fangirls shamelessly*
6. My friend Nina told me that a haiku chatroom (?!) she belongs to makes everyone pass a literacy test before joining. Of course, people still ignore the rules of English but their fellows know they *could* be writing properly, so mocking rights are thereby preserved.
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1. You crack me up.
3. I used to have a bookmark for a site that rates flags of the world aesthetically, but it's gone now.
4. Haha, people tripping while lighting things on fire is hilarious!
5. Sam is totally my Internet crush. :)
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Maybe I can blame SPN?
3. Oooh. *covets* Did you try to retrieve it on The Wayback Machine? (seriously, what is it about lists? They seduce me every time...)
4. Well, he usually doesn't trip *while* setting things on fire, just in between. Seriously, though, he's such a puppy.
5. And yet, we respect him too much to stalk him. Alas....
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3. I just don't have the link anymore. It was one of those Yahoo Pick of the Week links. Maybe I'll look for it sometime.
5. Alas. I'm awfully tempted to...