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borrowed from yukirien
This is fun:
1. Go to IMDB.com and look up [some] of your favorite movies.
2. Post 3-5 official IMDB "Plot Keywords" for each.
3. Hey guys, guess the movies! (NO CHEATING!)
1. Suicide attempt, murder, loss of loved one, pharmacist, old man, sword fight [edit: more keywords- story in story, shark-infested waters] The Princess Bride
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Gore is being questioned right now about global warming; it is interesting to watch:
http://epw.senate.gov/public/ (click live hearing)
Gore just said that scientific results should not be a partisan issue; yay! -
word(s) of the day
"radiative forcing"
is a measure of the influence that a factor has in alternating the balance of incoming and outgoing energy in the Earth-atmosphere system and is an index of the importance of the factor as a potential climate change mechanism. Positive forcing tends to warm the surface while negative forcing tends to cool it. (from the below ( Read more... ) -
news
Norman Mailer on NPR (right now):
"Some Americans are bad, some Islamics are bad; not all Islamics are terrorists. Bush wouldn't know a terrorist if he saw one, nor would I."
He also says that the devil likes fanatics and best-selling authors. -
Fantods!
I had the fantods last night. My bed is usually a bathykolpian of inviting blankets, but alas I could find no ataraxy.
I'm reposting this awesome website stollen from
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"A home without a cat--and a well-fed, well-petted, and properly revered cat--may be a perfect home, perhaps, but how can it prove title?"
Mark Twain, Pudd'nhead Wilson -
curiousity + neko
when someone is mad at you, is it better to ask them why or to wait for them to tell you?
i'm getting the distinct feeling that people are pissed at me. am i a big jerk? (and if so, is that so bad?)
back to aristotle and uncle tom's cabin (my hw rocks). -
kopy kat
http://kevan.org/johari?name=kuroneko_lovu
johari is a describing-people thing. it's neat!
i'm gonna so take up sondy on her offer for free food tonight. sounds totally fun. -
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SOCRATES: Very good; and is not this true, Crito, of other things which we need not separately enumerate? In questions of just and unjust, fair and foul, good and evil, which are the subjects of our present consultation, ought we to follow the opinion of the many and to fear them; or the opinion of the one man who has understanding? ought we not to ( Read more... ) -
frisbee season!
wee! i heart frisbee.