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Site of the Day - Strange Maps

Strange Maps. No real reason, except that I'm using one of them for a write-up that I'm working on now.

So, really, just because.

Religion, Mythology and Starbucks

Eric Burns - excellent fellow, and creator of a fine new blog called Banter Latte - has written a post about the difference between the first two, and how it all relates to the way that Starbucks coffee, well, sucks.  The story that he tells to explain the latter is a good one, and I enjoyed it greatly; it is also, alas, a demonstration why mythology is generally a disaster for humanity.

More after the fold.

The Greatest Website in the History of the Universe.

Well, maybe not: but Cracked.com Brought The Funny until I cried.  Check it out, oh my droogies.  Check it out.

(Via Ace of Spades)

Avast, ye Lubbers

It be International Talk Like A Pirate Day, so batten down the hatches and take up the cutlasses: there'll be bloody work ahead, mateys.  But we'll take the prize of the day, sink me otherwise, and you may lay to that.

Arrrr.

THERE ARE 666 UNREAD MESSAGES IN MY YAHOO MAIL BULK FILTER!

(pause)

I should probably clean that out, or something.

Starting the week with Brigitte Bardot! And sharks! And puppies!

Fair warning, this story has flunked the Jaymiel BS Detection test*:

PARIS, Aug 25 (AFP) - Brigitte Bardot, the 1950s and 1960s film star turned animal rights campaigner, has called on the French government to halt the reported use by fishermen on the island of Réunion of live puppies and kittens as shark bait.

Journalism majors, take note: that is one of the better examples of an introductory paragraph that I've seen in recent memory.  It's an accurate summary of the story and a sensationalist, eye-grabbing teaser!  No byline to the story, which is a shame: it reflected well on the writer.

As to whether it's true... damned if I know.  This could be a put-on job; if so, well, Snakes on a plane, man! Snakes on a plane!

Moe

(H/T: Ace of Spades)

A Gathering of Energies, Stillborn

I was, based on a conversation that Jaymiel and I had over dinner*, this close to going out, buying a whole bunch of Star Wars Legos and using them to redo Episode III, only this time it wouldn't suck.  I'd do it in photonovel style,much like Irregular Webcomic** -  using the digital camera that we've put on the registry - and, I don't know, post the dialogue on the bottom or something.   I had it all freaking blocked out, people.  All about the hypocritical nature of both the Jedi Order and the Sith Lords tumbling down their respective paths to disaster, with Anakin trapped in the middle trying to find a middle way and failing miserably.  A real tragedy, not the rush-to-the-black-life-support-suit that we actually got.  And dialogue that didn't make people cringe.

What happened?  I don't have the cash for Star Wars Legos, I don't have the time, either - and it's a little obsessive, don't you think?

Besides,
(waving fingers)
George Lucas is dead to me.

Moe

We can dance if we want to.

While Gossamer Commons has become a regular stop for me - both I and Jaymiel have become quite fond of it - I really do have to take issue with the commentary to today's strip.  This is a complaint of omission, rather than comission: Eric's discussion of Redcaps is nicely succinct, but it is lacking in regards to the most important thing (some would say, the only important thing) that a human needs to know about any particular breed of elf.

Which is, of course, how to kill it.

Random snippet of after-dinner conversation, Part I.

"If you're going to try and develop parliamentary democracy, it really does make sense to do it on an island.  Makes it harder for interested neighbors to join in when the inevitable civil war happens."

(pause)

Well, I thought that it was insightful.

I doubt that Alan Turing...

...ever contemplated that there'd be sites like this when he first came up with his famous* test.  I mean, it's... I don't know what it is; only that it gets more whatever-it-is the farther down you go.

Or something like that.

(Via Ann Althouse, on Instapundit)

Moe

*For a given value of 'famous', alas.