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Assorted unrelated items, none quite big enough to take a full entry. A couple of these (including their descriptions below) are not work-safe. (I'm never sure if I should put "not work-safe" in entry titles or not. You're probably best off assuming that my titles won't contain anything off-color but my entries occasionally will.)

  • I'm sorry to hear about Fred Rogers's death. I find that I don't really have anything useful to say about it beyond that. But I admired him, and I hadn't realized that his show had been running for over thirty years.
  • A cute little Flash animation by Mark Fiore called "Color-Coded Alert Systems." Heavy-handed, but entertaining.
  • A series of photos demonstrating how to turn a car into a snow hippo.
  • A piece from the "Straight Dope" message board about being attacked by a miniature blimp.
  • Christopher Barzak's "Notes Towards a Sort of Supreme Fiction."
  • A list of words and expressions for menstruation from around the world.
  • A timeline of rocket history from 3000 BC to 1989 AD. Especially intriguing is this entry for 1841: "C. Golightly was granted the first patent in England, on a rocket-airplane." I spent a while looking for more info about that but never found any.
  • Cute fake error page about the weapons inspections. (Hint: that link is not broken.)
  • Cute Masturbate for Peace site ("Using Self-Love to End Conflict"). Samples: "I plan to masturbate for peace while looking at Internet porn of liberty, stroking my penis of equality until it sprays the semen of tolerance into the sock of pacifism." And: "God, give me the strength, the agility, the courage, and the will to go on protesting this way, no matter how hard my hand cramps, no matter how many tissues I need, no matter how tired and chafed I get, give me the power to protest on."

There's more, but that's all I have time for. Oh, except that last item obliquely reminds me of this (streamlined for humor, not for accuracy):

I was looking at the D section of his science fiction bookcase. He had a lot of books by each author. "I think I have all these by Delany," I said. "But I don't have nearly as much Disch. And you've got way more Dick than I do."

Okay, on that note I'd really better get going.

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