8% of the American public believes that the late Thurgood Marshall is the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court.

4% think it's Senator Harry Reid ( Read more... )

...Does anybody have any Dreamwidth invites?

Connecting to Facebook and Twitter: NOT A GOOD IDEA.

In case they don't fix it, I would like to ask you, please, not to cross-post comments you make to any of my posts, in this journal or any other, to Facebook or Twitter. I have some RL people on both Facebook and Twitter who DO NOT need to see what I do on LJ.

Two-time Tour de France winner Laurent Fignon has died at the age of 50 following a battle with cancer.The Frenchman won the Tour in 1983 and 1984 and was second in 1989 when he lost by eight seconds, the smallest margin in the history of the race ( Read more... )

...created .mp3s from all of Suz's vids from the Providence, RI Glamnation show. A totally worthwhile use of my time, and now I can (virtually) go to a concert anytime at work! (And OMG I just can't get over Mad Word/20th Century Boy from that night! Even putting aside the tongue-diving, his vocals are fucking OUT OF THIS WORLD ( Read more... )

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ADAM LAMBERT! HERE TONIGHT!

*wishes work would just go the fuck away so it can be TIEM already*

Cyclists Are Said to Back Claims That Armstrong Doped


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I watched today's Tour stage live this morning. Through no fault of his own, Lance crashed twice and got stopped by someone else's crash a third time, and it was clear way before the stage was over that he was going to lose a lot of time. We hoped it wouldn't be too much, but, well.... Andy Schleck pulled out the win, which was awesome. ( Read more... )

I've decided that Friday Random Ten is pretty boring, especially with my music collection, since I have a bunch of stuff I've never even listened to. So I'm gonna try this. I have iTunes configured so that the My Top Rated playlist only includes songs I've given 5 stars. (I think it defaults to 4 and 5 star songs, but then mine would be gigantic ( Read more... )