Huh. It appears that someone has coined a word – “nervio” – to describe the sensation of loving someone so much you want to squeeze them to bits. Or, in my case, being so enamored of a baby’s chubby thighs that you want to eat them up.
Category: Random Links
Links that I’m reading/watching/listening to/thinking about
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Knitted Grocery Bags!
I knew you could cut up grocery bags and knit with them… but I’d never have guessed someone would make an entire 1950’s outfit. Wow.
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Ratings Win
So it looks like The Chaser scored a record rating for last night’s show, and in usual web-goddess fashion, I am prepared to take all the credit for it. Hey, I sat in that stupid booth for, like, three hours!
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Harry Potter
The cover art for Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows has been revealed! I have to say, the US cover is about ten times better than the British one. The latter looks like a freakin’ Pratchett book.I suppose the only real spoiler is that Harry is wearing Slytherin’s amulet, right? I like the close-up of it on the adult cover. Very nice. But what’s up with Ron and Hermione breaking into Gringott’s with him? And Ron‘s wielding Gryffindor’s sword??
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Passwords
I read this article on password hacking, and now I’m setting proper (different!) passwords on all my sites. Which I should’ve done a long time ago. But I’m lazy.
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The Jolly Knitter
“Once a jolly knitter sat beside a billabong…” Mary-Helen has given us a new patriotic song for the ages. And she’s not even Australian!
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The Chaser’s War on Everything
The Snook and I joined Amy tonight for the taping of the first episode of The Chaser’s War on Everything‘s new season. After spending more than an hour penned in by Security, waiting for the boys to finish rehearsal, we were ready for some laughs. The set looked great (including Fiona’s Trojan horse) and the Easter eggs the guys threw to the crowd were much appreciated. The show was extra long since they had a lot of material from over the summer, so I imagine it’ll get trimmed down a fair bit. My favorite bit were the nudists. Yes, they really did get naked in the studio. Be sure to watch tomorrow night at 9pm! (Or download it if you’re not local…)
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Tall Tower
Now here’s a fun question: How high would a tower have to be in order to be seen from both US coasts? I like math geeks.
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Delicious Irony
April 2006: Chicago bans foie gras.
March 2007: Chicago has wild goose problem.Links courtesy of the decidedly carnivorous Snook, who adds (in a Nelson voice): “Ha, ha!”
Edited 23/03/2025: Second link is dead and not archived.