"God help you if you are a phoenix / and you dare to rise up from the ash"

[larryhammer]

Thanks all for the SF recs -- they've been quite helpful while shopping. In return, here's some link salad for ya:

• Zombie haiku, celebrity poet edition. (via)
  
  
• There's a Dark Doodad Nebula. No, really.
  
  
• The answer to life, the universe, and the third moment of the Riemann zeta function may be 42. No, really. (via)
  
  
• Multiple studies show that children get just as hyperactive on a placebo as on sugar. All together now: No, really. (via)
  
  
• You cannot resist the cute baby catepillar. (via)
  
  
• One of these days, once they have jelled, I will write up my thoughts on the rhetoric of Wikipedia articles. Until then, I will have to simply emit cartoon ♥s over articles like this list of common misconceptions. (via)
  
  
• Deserving more publicity: the OpenStreetMap project, a collaborative geographic data project. Or in simpler terms, wiki-Google-Maps. It has a derivative project, OpenCycleMap.

" ... a thousand eyes will smolder with jealousy / while you are just flying past"

---L.

Comments

[http://users.livejournal.com/_twilight_/]

http://www.theonion.com/content/node/50902

[pdlloyd.livejournal.com]

There is something so wrong, and so right about the idea of zombie haiku. I'm definitely sending that link to my guys. *g*

There's a Dark Doodad Nebula.

Karl says this is probably an incursion from Camazotz and we should call in Mrs. Whatsit, Mrs. Who, and Mrs. Which.

Multiple studies show that children get just as hyperactive on a placebo as on sugar.

There was a similar study twenty years ago, which I've told parents about many, many times. It's the Pygmalion effect: you get what you expect. They typically refuse to believe me.

You cannot resist the cute baby catepillar.

I noticed they had to cut the scene before the poor tea-picker succumbed to the baby caterpillar. Everyone knows it's impossible to win a fight against baby caterpillar mind control.

The wiki timed out when I did a search for my street. I'll have to try again, later.

[larryhammer]

Heh. The writers of that are definitely familiar with Wikipedia -- they caught a lot of little things as well as the big stuff.

---L.