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Was in a planning meeting all morning, so just now really getting to the intartubes.

Via Cute Overload: nudibranchs!

What were they thinking? (Blog of the author of Rapture Ready!: Adventures in the Parallel Universe of Christian Pop Culture, which I found via its Amazon link.)

sylvar tracked down the full version of the 1939 marital test I blogged about yesterday on a Flickr account. It includes a husband test, too!

I shall note that my Wife Score has increased to a positively glowing +2. I have not yet taken the Husband Test, as I'm going to sit here and kill my hands by typing in all the statements so I can make an internet quiz out of it.

ETA: I just took the Husband Test and I have to say I make an awesome husband. At least compared to the wife score: a +40! Which lifts me up to Poor, right on the border of Average!

Via vito_excalibur: Wow, that's ... sparkly. Clicking on it will take you to brown_betty's LJ, where I think the commenter who posits that it's obviously a portrait of Herald Barack from Lackey's Valdemar series is correct.

MindHacks links to an article about a marital rating chart from the 1930s. Note that only the Wife's Scale exists. The image reproduced from it shows only the first 12 of 50 Merits and Demerits, and I note that when I tally up the points from them for myself, I score an impressive -2.* It would be higher [ETA: lower, I mean], but I do not currently wear red nail polish and the only time I warm my cold feet on someone, it's because I'm doing the "See how cold I am?! TURN THE HEAT UP!" thing.**

I sort of want to find the full scale now, to see how I rate with the full test.



* I am assuming that if I wore hose with seams, they would always be crooked, because things just do that on me.

** Or revenging myself on someone who's stolen the blanket.

yhlee has opened a post for you to post excerpts of all those hilariously awful stories you wrote as a kid and teen. :)

oyceter is asking for recommendations for non-Japanese Asian SF/F. Her requirements include (quoted directly from her entry):

It must be:

• Created in Asia by Asians
• NOT from Japan
• Any medium
• Bonus points if I can get my hands on it (I am in the US and read/understand Mandarin Chinese)

Extra bonus points for SF/F from and/or about Southeast Asia or South Asia

I have a slightly better sense of SF/F created in Asia and popular in the US, though if you have notes for your specific country, that would also be good! Please note: NOT from Japan.

Bookshelves of Doom has a small rant about a wannabe editor who marked up the pages of a library copy of Jo Walton's Farthing, while at the same time missing the point of alternate history.

Jeffrey Friedl goes camping with his family in Japan, and photographs a beautiful sunset.

The top ten non-English words voted hardest to translate

From Bug Girl's Blog: I have pubic lice in my mailbox Or, as it turns out, perhaps not. "[Also, a tip: if you walk into your new workplace brandishing a container of putative pubic lice and sand, you may want to provide a more detailed back story than "I bought them on the internet." Just some advice.]"

Snopes.com shows some stripey icebergs today. And links to this page with some gorgeous Antarctic photos.

Short films written by, directed by, and starring Isabella Rossellini. Did I mention they're all about bug sex?




When I came to work this morning I really didn't expect I'd be seeing Isabella Rossellini dressed up like a giant earthworm, simulating earthworm sex.

vito_excalibur explains the origins of Supernatural.

snarp has just read Anne Bishop.

Man tries to cash check for $360 billion.

I think my favorite sentence is "The personal check was not made out to Mr. Fuller and when the bank contacted the check owner, the woman said she did not write a check for $360 billion."

sartorias picks up on a meme: in a parallel universe, what's on your bookshelf?

Cute Overload links to a baby sun bear that can't stay awake.

John Scalzi has a roundup of authors that posted their one-star Amazon reviews.




(Man, this icon doesn't get enough use.)

DEAD GIANT SQUID CAM

And here's the schedule.

(Via benchilada)

Today's picture from the National Geographic picture feed (ng_photo) shows a mud-brick city in Yemen nicknamed the "Manhattan of the Desert" for the mud-brick skyscrapers. Nifty!

A nice guide to recognizing when someone's in an uncomfortable situation and how to offer them the chance of rescue.

ETA: And how to prepare yourself to keep from freezing up in a situation. From the comments on the Open Source Women Backing Each Other Up Program post.

What may be the first photographic portrait ever made.

A follow-up to the OH JOHN RINGO NO post I linked to earlier today: John Ringo's linked to the review from his website. :D (Do not miss the OH JOHN RINGO NO icon in the comments!)