Librarian's Rant

Angie sent me this one: Cats That Look Like Hitler

Cheese Test: What type of cheese are you?

Thanks, Laura K. (and Gwynneth!)

Is this for real?? The AP seems to think so:

COPENHAGEN, Denmark - The Danish Air Force said Thursday it paid about $5,000 in compensation to a part-time Santa Claus whose reindeer died of heart failure when two fighter jets roared over his farm.

The animal, named Rudolf, was grazing at the farm of Olavi Nikkanoff in central Denmark when the screaming F-16 jets passed overhead at low altitude in February.

Rudolf?? I mean, seriously.

Just don't tell the kids!

Thanks, John M.

From my buddy staunton: it seems that the Flying Spaghetti Monster has its own game!

http://www.venganza.org/games/index.htm

From littlefluffy.com: "No longer the realm of courtroom testimony, the Flying Spaghetti Monster has taken the land by storm, converting worshippers to Pastafarianism like wildfire. Now you can live the experience of touching with your noodly appendage free from fear of restraining order. Only the tedious repetitive music will stand in your way. Bonus: Touching the people turns them into pirates."

A brilliant entry from a brilliant web comic. From which I have my new .sig:

If television's a babysitter, the Internet is like a drunken librarian who won't shut up.

From Frozen Bunny, something to add to my previous post on the Flying Spaghetti Monster

Thanks, t!

The test.

Your GF score is 91.
(Out of a range of 0 - 100, where 0 = mind slave, and 100 = free thinker.)

Free Thinker

Welcome to the top 5%. You're a true free thinker and a person who is well informed about the reality in which you live. Although you may have been easily manipulated earlier in life, you eventually gained lucidity and developed a healthy sense of skepticism that you now automatically apply to your observations and experiences. You are endlessly curious about human behavior and the nature of the universe, and you have one or more lifestyle habits that most people would consider odd or unusual. You are not only of very high intelligence, you are also extremely creative in one or more areas (music, art, software development, inventing, etc.)
If you were in The Matrix, you would have taken the red pill, completed the combat training, and started fighting (and beating) agents from day one.

Your architects: You have cast off reality distortions taught to you by your parents, schooling, corporate advertising and government propaganda. You create your own beliefs based on what serves you best, without much regard for what the rest of the crowd is doing. You are guided by your own internal code of ethics (which may or may not agree with politically-correct ethical codes) rather than any pre-set system of ethics (such as from any one religion).

Thanks to Laura for the link

...are the t-shirts.

Thanks, Lola.

Two of my friends, independent of each other, have sent me the following links about a new answer to the eternal questions:

http://uncyclopedia.org/wiki/Flying_Spaghetti_Monster

http://www.venganza.org/index.htm

My favorite part is the graph about the average global temperature vs. the number of pirates. Who knew?!

NY Times story. I have to admit, I'm very sad. I liked his style, certainly far better than Brokaw or Rather.

A Biblical Curse Generator. Some good ones:

May you have more mother-in-laws than King Solomon, thou wayward winebibber!

I hope you will be smitten with all-over boils, O thou irritating inhabitant of Gath!

And my fav:
Take heed, O thou sad Pharisee, for you will be as welcome as a fart in the queen's bedchamber!

Thanks, Akeisha

More fun from The Onion.

I don't know why you want to come off all smart and well-read, anyway. Sure, with your head full of facts, you may seem to have the world at your feet, but if you keep it up, you'll soon have no one to share it with. Smart people are the loneliest people in the world. They don't have anyone to talk to except other smart people, and who wants to join a conversation between two smart people? No one I know.

So, if you want to keep the friends you have and maybe even make some new ones, try being a little less of a know-it-all and a little more of a know-it-some. I mean, would it really kill you to think the capital of Illinois is Chicago? It could only help. Trust me.

Thanks, Amym

You know those emails you get with photos of stupid things people do? Well, someone has made a handy page of them here: http://www.micom.net/oops/

Oddly enough, this could be handy for a reference question. Someone asked me not long ago to find 'that picture where the guy is on a forklift...' and Google Images took forever.

Your Inner European is French!

Smart and sophisticated. You have the best of everything - at least, you think so.

On the brighter side today, Woman beats off burglar with gnome. "I went back into the kitchen and found a rolling pin in case he came down. I didn't want to break another gnome."