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Category: Random Links

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

  • Stupid haircuts

    Check out the First and Second Annual Myspace Stupid Haircut Awards. I hate Myspace. Fully 50% of my referrer stats are Myspace users stealing my images.

  • Sex toy or baby toy?

    Sex Toy or Baby Toy? That link is totally Not Safe For Work, by the way. I scored a deeply disturbing 9 out of 15. I swear I’m not moonlighting at the Tool Shed! (Link courtesy of John.)

    Later: I sent the Snook to do the quiz. “Oh no,” he said. “I only got 1 out of 15! Don’t send me to buy any toys for the baby!”

  • Encyclopedia readers unite

    AskMeFi wants to know: Did you read encyclopedias as a kid? I did. We had an ancient set of World Books and everytime I’d go to look something up, I’d get sucked into reading them for hours. Come to think of it, I do the same thing nowadays with Wikipedia.

  • A test?

    Hmm. I don’t get it. Australia will simply hand me a driver’s license with basically no questions asked, but now they want me to take a test to prove I’m worthy of being a citizen? What’s more dangerous – driving or voting? I guess to a politician, the answer is the latter.

    Edited 26/04/2025: Link is dead and not archived.

  • Flapjack Flap

    Well, that’s what you get when you use pre-prepared pancake mix. (I’m smug because the Snook is a full-fledged convert to the glories of big ol’ American homemade pancakes.)

  • Smaller Footprint

    Huh. According to Ask MetaFilter, it appears that by living in the middle of a big city we actually consume far fewer environmental resources than suburban or rural dwellers. “The density of human life enables energy efficiency, mass transit, recycling, and other benefits,” which means we have a smaller ecological footprint than we might have otherwise. (Mom still wants us to move back to Indiana. I’m grasping at straws here.)

  • The Birth Story

    Rebellin: The Birth Story. Seriously, you guys, I am not havin’ kids. (Madelynn is gorgeous though.)

  • Poledancing!

    You know that episode of Friends where Chandler made a resolution not to make fun of people, and then Ross walked in wearing leather pants and all Chandler could do was babble: “Ross is wearing leather pants! Does nobody else see that Ross is wearing leather pants? Someone comment on the pants!”? Well…

    Amy is poledancing! Does nobody else see that Amy is poledancing? Someone comment on the G-string!

    Thank you.

    Later: The phone just rang and I started hooting because I knew it was the hoochie mama herself. Snookums picked it up: “Yeah, I heard about it. It’s okay. As Wyclef says, just because you dance go-go, don’t mean you’re a ho, no.” HA! I’m still laughing.

  • 50 Best Restaurants

    Thanks to Helen for pointing out that this year’s list of the world’s fifty best restaurants is now available. Apparently the only Melbourne restaurant on the list dropped off this year; therefore I’ve eaten in all (i.e. “both”) Australian honorees! If we want to cross anymore off, we’ll have to go to another continent.

  • Nada Chair

    At the Easter Show today I found a booth exhibiting Nada Chairs and remembered that I’d tried one at the Craft Show a few years earlier and really liked it. So I bought one! I feel a bit silly wearing it – like I’m about to rappel down a cliff at any second – but it definitely makes a difference.