Artwork by artists inspired by Miyazaki and My Neighbor Totoro will go on auction this Saturday. Proceeds benefit the trust fund of "The Totoro Forest," Sayama Forest outside of Tokyo.

Totoro Forest Project


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http://colorwar2008.com/submissions/youngnow

Find a photo of when you were a kid, recreate that photo as best you can today, and submit them both.

Plaid pants! Hand in diaper! Macaroni-and-gold-paint Christmas ornament! Drool!

AWESOME.

We're having a birthday party! For Shakespeare!

So I was looking at Evert Fresh ethylene-eating bags for produce on Amazon.com.

Amazon politely suggested, as it does, that since I was looking at Food Storage Bags, I might be interested in the related product category of Support Bras.

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Anybody here interested in spies or intelligence history? We've got some major stuff coming up at the Library, including keynote speeches by Henry Kissinger and Gen. Michael Hayden.

Georgetown University Presents

A Life in Intelligence:
A Symposium on Richard Helms

April 28, 2008, Gaston Hall

SESSION I
1:00 pm - 3:00 pm

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Two of the four segments of the Feburary 8th This American Life (#348: Tough Room) had me laughing out loud like a total goober on the metro when I was listening to the podcast:

Act One: Make 'em Laff.

Host Ira Glass spends time in perhaps the toughest room on earth, the editorial meeting at the satirical newspaper, The Onion, where there's one laugh ( Read more... )

(wizard of oz) x steampunk + Indiana Jones = ???

Tin Man - new miniseries on SciFi channel...

http://www.scifi.com/tinman/

Alan Cumming as the scarecrow! 

From Mom:
I believe [the house we lived in in Rancho Bernardo] has burned. All RB and Poway have been evacuated. Eight fires are burning all of North County and heading toward Rancho Santa Fe. Greg emailed he may be sent out to Ramona area today to aid in evacuations. Most freeways are closed. We also have many fires burning in the Southland. ( Read more... )

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