DAY FIFTY SEVEN

OWS... ish.

love it.

DAY FIFTY SIX POST TWO

link roundup to get rid of some of the open tabs i've had for a while:

Australia gets drunk, wakes up in north Atlantic. Oldie but goodie.

This post is apparently supposed to be funny. I think it's depressing and yet another indictment of the war on drugs.

who is a jew? the wikipedia article.

THIS IS IN ALL CAPS BECAUSE IT IS VERY IMPORTANT YOU LOOK AT IT. I want to do some of those, especially knit-bombing (or crochet bombing as it may be).

As featured on Neysa's facebook, christwire. What will the gays do next? One MI mayor is not happy about the gays either. Except she calls them 'the queers'. Please note that this website is called "Towle Road". I wonder how many Towle's there are, and if Amanda Towle is related to him? Or the other Amanda Towle? The name Towle has weird associations with it.

DAY FIFTY SIX

Today I find myself compelled to bring your attention to an important issue plaguing not just the nation of America, but the entire globe.

Sexual predators. This page used to pay the Law and Order SVU theme song but it doesn't appear to any more.

These sexual predators are a sign of the weakening morality of our nation. It is time that we band together to prevent such crimes.

I was assigned to find all the easter eggs that Google had to offer.

While doing so, I got distracted by Doodles. In particular, I love this one! There's also a ton of other fun ones, from playable games and a Mr. Potato-head-style Thanksgiving Turkey to some fun ones about people who I've never heard about before. Did you know that Calder invented the mobile? I had no idea. I always thought of him as "that artist who makes things out of big orange metal bits."

Beach themed iGoogle lets you sight the Lock Ness Monster at 3.14 every morning.

Google calculator lets you calculate and convert distances into smoots.

Google is available in such languages as "Bork, bork, bork", Elmer Fudd, Leetspeak, Klingon, Pig Latin and Pirate.

Google calculator will tell you the answer to life, the univerese, and everything, as well as once in a blue moon and horns on a unicorn.

Press Control Y in Picasa for a teddy bears.

Google maps will tell you to swim, jet-ski or kayak across bodies of water.

Google Mail spam folder features, not an ad, but instead, a recipe for something with spam!

Google search these terms: Santa Claus, hanukkah, kwanzaa, let it snow.

There's more and more and more and more, but that's all for now!

DAY FIFTY FIVE

I'm only going to post one post today, because you better read it.

Rhet/Comp Ryan Gosling.

JAMIETRONNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNN!

This blog is also dedicated to a shoutout to my friend Jim, who really needs to visit Istanbul. DeLuca lived here for over 2 years before I moved here, and then we lived here together for a while, and then she left, and then I lived here for over 2 years, and then she came back, and now we're all in the same city. All, that is, except for Jim. Jim has yet to visit, despite spending a great deal of time in the middle east. COME HERE BEFORE WE DO ALASKAN CRUISE 2025!!! 2012!!!!!!!! ISTANBUL REUINION TOUR!!!!!!!

DAY FIFTY FOUR

There's going to be some yarn bombing here in Istanbul soon. I'll hopefully be involved!

This shapecatcher is pretty fun. Draw something and see what character comes closest.


Slab city, a trailer park utopia. It actually doesn't sound too utopic, really, particularly the parts about theft. But it is interesting.

One teacher's approach to preventing gender bullying in the classroom. I love it, and it makes me hope/wish that all teachers did more of this.

DAY FIFTY THREE

To resolve a debate we had last weekend, there are definitely more native speakers of Esperanto than Klingon, and indeed, more fluent speakers of Esperanto. Also, even if your mother is a human, it really doesn't sound that bad on this planet to say so.

Among those who are native in Esperanto are George Soros, while the one attempt to raise a child native in Klingon didn't work too well, including the lack of terms for 'bottle' and 'diaper' in Klingon. The most widely-spoken constructed languages, not surprisingly, are various programming languages. Boring. The other ones are way, way more interseting, like Volapük.

DAY FIFTY TWO

Make sure to spread the word of a flat available, mostly after 29 December, with thanks to James Smart for advertising a non-existant room in our flat (3 yabanci girls looking for roommate), and hopes that he is able to find one for his via the above link.

Bill to ban insider trading suddenly very popular. Somehow not surprising that it's only popular after a very public expose.

Uhh... World record for eating a lightbulb.

Dishwasher wanted. Very funny. For those of you who I share my favorite links with, you may have read this before. Don't fear, though, over the next few days I'll post all of my favs from this person.

Woman refuses to move to the back of the bus.

I know very little about Havel but do love some of the things he said:

Twenty or thirty years ago, in the army, we had a lot of obscure adventures, and years later we tell them at parties, and suddenly we realize that those two very difficult years of our lives have become lumped together into a few episodes that have lodged in our memory in a standardized form, and are always told in a standardized way, in the same words. But in fact that lump of memories has nothing whatsoever to do with our experience of those two years in the army and what it has made of us.

I really do not like Christopher Hitchens.