Seriously. Find your Celestial Choir (It puts me in the Elohim. Interesting: I didn’t know they were a Choir. Oh well — I guess angelic mileage varies.)

And it makes sense, when you think about it… In an interesting experiment a team from Newcastle University found people put nearly three times as much money into a canteen…

Thanks to StumbleUpon for the link. [tags]Star Wars, humor[/tags]

But then I’m a New Yorker.  🙂 Reader’s Digest survey finds Big Apple to be world’s politest city The magazine sent reporters “undercover” to 36 cities in 35 countries to…

When a barge needs to pass through the space normally occupied by this little pedestrian bridge in London, the bridge does something less than typical. Now playing: (Billy Joel) –…

Hmm. If when we’re in Japan next year I ever come across one of these portapotties, I’m going to examine it verrrrry carefully before I use it… Now playing: Fretwork…

nk(t+1) — nk(t) = w(k-1)(t)*n(k-1)(t) — wk(t)*nk(t) + sigma(k,1)*u(t) Or in other words:  Sniping is the best way to win on eBay. [tags]eBay, sniping[/tags]

A cute bit of video. Play with the flying CDs! Bounce around on the keyboard! Chew on the mouse cord! Wheee! [tags]kitten, cat, Apple, Mac[/tags]

But some of us have been doing it for a real long time, and have gotten really good at it… Scientists have found a 136 million-year-old piece of amber encasing…

(And so appropriate for the day after we’ve returned from a week away from home…) The Table of Condiments that Periodically Go Bad.

Like this one. In response to something another panelist at the “Anthropoly” game at Anthrocon did, Peter slapped himself in the forehead and rocked back in his chair… …a little…

I mean, anyone could have made this mistake… Russian police mistake rugby match for brawl  

A note to the US team: Guys, please pull your socks up and start playing like grownups. You made it to the Cup when a lot of talented teams didn’t.…

For those of you bloggers / LJ’ers who’re going to be at Anthrocon this weekend: we ought to get together! Leave a comment here, and if there are enough people…

Insane Cat Video (It just keeps cycling, BTW: there’s no way to pause it.)

I seem to have been nominated for a Mythopoeic Fantasy Award again. Woo woo! (I’m betting that either Valiant or the “Bartimaeus Trilogy” will win it, though.) [tags]Mythopoeic Society, award,…

As the commercial over here would have it. Bunny Suicides Absolutely not worksafe if your boss finds it odd that you should break down in front of the monitor weeping…

And every one unique, apparently.

Adobe Photoshop CS Top Secret For Professionals. [tags]Adobe, Photoshop, tutorial, oh well, eventually Corel will come out with the same thing only better[/tags] Now playing: Verdi, Anna Russell/Anna Russell –…

Previously on Metaquotes: Commune with Cthulhu??? Why would you want to talk to the fictional creation of a 1920’s writer who had lots of personal problems? You might as well…

(When I did my internet order last night, I thought I ordered two rainbow trout from the folks at Tesco; however, they sent me two kilograms of them. Probably my…

It’s 23 Centigrade outside OOA HQ in beautiful County Wicklow. (That’s about 73 Fahrenheit for those of you who aren’t up to doing the conversion right this moment.) The sun…

If I started detailing the number of hardware, software and lifeware glitches I’ve suffered through in the last two weeks, I’d be here all day…and I have a lot of…

Nita and Kit would be so embarrassed. Two Long Island teenagers were in police custody facing illegal computer access and attempted extortion charges after they allegedly threatened to shake down…