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Category: Random Links

Links that I’m reading/watching/listening to/thinking about

  • Giant Cadbury Creme Egg

    Giant Cadbury Creme Egg. ACK! The Creme Egg is secondly only to the dreaded Peep on my list of Candy Enemies. (Link courtesy of Bex.)

  • Dogster

    My sister’s dog Buster has his own page on Dogster. That kind of cracks me up.

    There’s a Catster site too, but I think a Flickr page is enough for one cat, isn’t it?

  • Nintendo = happy

    Nintendo guru wants more happy games. See, that pretty much encapsulates my whole issue with the video games industry. There are just too many “dark” games based on violence and horror. I want to play fun stuff that challenges while still making me smile.

  • Stella Mayhem

    Stella McCartney Target Mayhem. Dude, maybe I won’t go to Bondi Junction tonight after all. (Link courtesy of Bex.)

    Later: Holy crap. I guess there’s no point in going. They cleaned the place out. And get this:

    The most popular items were McCartney’s much-hyped trench coat in grey and navy – just 6000 are available Australia-wide…

    SOB. That’s what I wanted! If any of you happen to find yourself in a Target that has the Stella trench in a size 14, BUY IT. I will reimburse you. Black is preferable, but I’ll take any.

  • Go girls!

    Wow. Thirty-five years after admitting women, Notre Dame finally elected an all-female ticket to the office of Student Body President and Vice President. Well done, ladies!

  • Atkins Results

    Study backs worth of Atkins diet. Interesting reading. I don’t know that I’ve lost any significant weight yet (mostly because I’ve done very little exercise) but at least I haven’t binged in the past two weeks. So that’s good.

  • Overeating

    This Ask MetaFilter question about the way we define our relationship with food really struck home for me. Parts of the question (and the ensuing comments) could have been written by my subconscious. I know for a fact that when I was most successful with Weight Watchers, I was thinking about food *constantly*. It was something I focused on nearly every minute of the day. I also know that the reason I’ve put back on a little bit weight in the past few months (and the reason I’ve stopped going to WW) is because I got tired of maintaining that focus. I got tired of tracking every bit of food. I got tired of taking special dishes to potluck dinners so I could avoid everyone else’s fatty (and delicious) contributions. I got tired of denying myself things. Of course, none of this is how it’s supposed to work. WW was supposed to help me deal with these underpinning emotional issues so that I wouldn’t have to obsess about food. But instead it became just another test, a system that I could game by being clever. So while I’d say WW was successful in getting off the weight, it didn’t help me deal with why I had gained it in the first place. (And yes, I realize completely that going back to Atkins is just grasping for another set of rules I can manipulate.) I dunno. That anonymous poster got me thinking. Maybe I need to try an entirely different approach…

  • Cat Craziness.

    Dr. Amy Jones was driving us CRAZY this morning, scratching and meowing at the bed for hours. We tried locking her up in the bathroom, giving her an early breakfast, refreshing her water, everything. She was just being a total poophead. Snookums thinks maybe the wind gusts scared her, or else the lunar eclipse messed with her brain. Me, I’m wondering if my Depo shot last week has screwed with her hormones.

  • Time lapse Thom Yorke

    Time lapse video of someone painting a Photoshop portrait of Radiohead’s Thom Yorke. It’s amazing.

  • Edible Chess

    Edible Chess. That is neat!