(because they were on my page. But you can change all that by joining my network here.)
1. Learn how to fold a towel elephant this weekend! Think how impressed your Thanksgiving guests (or your hosts) will be. Well, I think they're great. And so does Jackie.
2. John Scalzi was asked by all his readers to visit the Creation Museum which just opened in his town, and to write a full report. They got so strident about it, he finally put up a Paypal link and said okay I'll do it, if you bastids pay my way, and anything above that will be donated to a secular charity. Well, the readers came through, big time! So he went. And the report is screamingly funny. So is the photo page.
3. Play Counterfeit, a maddening flash game where you have to find the difference between two versions of the same painting. If there are any differences, which I am beginning to doubt. I need to find my new "reading glasses" (proto-bifocals) for this game.
4. Good Luck to our Atheist Friends. Yeah. Okay. Ha-ha. Keep your signs - we got John Scalzi inside the Creation Museum.
5. Sci-Fi Inventions That Would Actually Suck. Good ol' Cracked, with their lists that make me compulsively come back for more. They do have a good point about the flying car, though.
Wow. John Scalzi. Where in the world have I been?
Posted by: Dan | November 16, 2007 at 09:51 AM
Do you have ANY IDEA what a towel elephant will fetch on the hotel linen black market these days?
Fans of Carl Sagan will remember that his novel "Contact" (the one without Jodie Foster) has a scene set in a Creation Science "Museum" in--of all places--Modesto, CA. Now granted, Modesto ("Water, Wealth, Contentment, Health") was a Baptist dominated litle Central Valley burg noted for absolutely nothing whatsoever but even so, NOTHING the good people of that town ever possibly could have done to Carl was reason enough to put it on the literary map in such a humiliating way. And I lived in Coulterville, a town so podunk that the people in it (all 591) thought Modesto was the Whore of Babylon and Rio all jammed together!
Posted by: Anthony | November 16, 2007 at 11:41 AM
I know how to fold a towel that looks just like a penis. Really! It's pretty awesome. (Maybe after a few crantinis the day after Thanksgiving while I'm making soap with my girlfriend I'll gather up the courage to fold one up and take a picture of it. (And post it on my blog???!!!) I'd probably get a XXX-rating.
Posted by: Tonya | November 16, 2007 at 07:32 PM
Hey, send it here and I'll post it for you. My blog is rated as an elementary school reading level; I need to get a little racier.
Posted by: pam | November 16, 2007 at 07:44 PM
I've got to find my old gray towels and give them a little folding. If I'm successful I'll have to change my avatar, a home-made towel elephant would so much more represent the true me than one created by a relative stranger on a cruise ship.
Thanks for the link and the mention.
Posted by: Jackie | November 21, 2007 at 08:33 AM