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Friday fun: playing virtual hookey

God tweets about making the universe. You know, in my head, God always sounds like a cheerful young girl, and now there's this blog post. Freaky.

It's not to early to plan this awesome Christmas light display.

Superhero - comic strip mashup - I'm a sucker for any and all Family Circus and Dennis the Menace parodies. Those poor kids are, like, 50 by now. They deserve some shaking up once in a while!

Some of your favorite internet memes performed by these two Swedish women in beehives.

I want you to know, I thought up Dr. Octomom first, but I didn't think it appropriate to try and whip up a Halloween costume, when I'm not even supposed to be blogging.

And for BB, who honestly hadn't noticed them: a gallery of cell phone towers disguised as trees.

Gonna miss geocities?

Geocities is closing today!

Time is up for Yahoo Inc.'s scheduled closing of perhaps the most significant virtual museum in recent history. Years ago a central meeting place for a massive chunk of American Web surfers, GeoCities will lock its doors and take millions of pages offline.

GeoCities allowed anyone to build a custom Web page for free and reserved a small amount of virtual storage to keep pictures and documents. It was perhaps the first mainstream example of an open, participatory and personal Internet.

At the turn of the century, GeoCities was nearly ubiquitous. Fathers created websites about their families; kids created sites about Pokemon; teenage girls created sites about the Backstreet Boys. Practically every facet of culture was documented and thanks to search engines, easily accessible.

All of those documents are about to disappear.

I remember the 90s, when you couldn't search for song lyrics or game cheats or even a restaurant's menu without running into one of those attrocious orange and green neon pages. I never worked with it myself, but respected those (few, very few) who could actually produce a readable page. 

Maybe Yahoo should offer to cache some or all of the old pages somewhere. I mean, apart from what is available in the Wayback Machine. We need an internet museum.

(xkcd's commemorative Geocities page)

Friday fun: I'm in yr droid headin for Tattooine

My mom keeps sending me sci fi-themed LOLcats because I always blog 'em on Fridays. Loves the mom!

 

Which religion is for you? Find out with this handy flowchart.

Things librarians fancy - You know, I was never an ironic cardigan sweater-wearer. I wonder why?

Tetris dress - too pretty for irony

Roger Ebert says this is why he HATES 3-D movies. Yeah, I can see his point. But Coraline was still awesome.

Pixar intro parody

Origami, am I?

This kind of thing is what really bugs me about the CSI series(es).

And last but not least, Single Ladies covered by what appears to be a white couple living in an attic.

Taki gets LOL'd

Taki motivator poster1, originally uploaded by beancounter.

My mother's cat expresses her feelings in true LOLCAT style. Please share it around, make posters and postcards, etc. With any luck, in a few decades we'll soon supplant that boring old poster with the hanging kitty that says Hang in there baby.

Hope you're all doing well! I'm already sick of my paper and I haven't even really written anything yet, unless the heavily-revised outlines, surveys and charts count.

Hydrangea

late-season hydrangea 1, originally uploaded by beancounter.

Wow, it's been a long time since I got to play with macro photography. BB has four macro lenses for his Pentax. And when you attach a couple of 'em together, you get scary-close detail. See more shots of the season's last blooms on the Flickr page.