This poor kitty! Laughing & sympathy at the same time...

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Today's research binge has been devoted to... cuteoverload.com! For those of you who don't follow the site, permit me to share with you my best-of cuteoverload.com, a selection of truly amazing cuteness.

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"Patchy dense fog around noon. Highs in the lower 80s."

And indeed, just west of Copley Square is a mound of fog that's obscuring the Pru., but hasn't reached the Hancock.

I'd like to share some stuff, hopefully ongoingly, related to my computer game of choice for the last year and a half, World of Warcraft. This will only be of interest to folks who are players themselves, so I'll make a filter. If you'd like to be on it, please let me know -- and also say what class/level characters you have on what server. I ( Read more... )

I haven't posted to LJ in a long time. I think my psychology is such that exceptional events are the times to post, rather than various ongoing uses I've dreamed up and consistently not followed through with ( Read more... )

Illinois to be the 2nd equal marriage state?Last year the Illinois Family Institute failed a petition drive to get on the ballot a state constitutional amendment banning gay marriage due to not enough signatures. In a poll 51% were opposed to it anyway with only 40% supporting ( Read more... )

"Thank you for your patience. You may press 1 to listen to cheery but soulless elevator music that will stick in your brain another hour for every minute you're on hold, or you may press 2 so we can tell you how important your call is to us, in a message loop that will repeat until your brain can no longer hear the sounds as words."

So after seeing tcb's backpack nicely done up with lit elwire at Halloween, I went and bought myself some from xoxide.com. They didn't seem to sell a power source, so I separately bought a product identified as "12 VDC Battery pack for cold cathodes, LEDs, ELWIRE". It comes with a Molex connector, and the elwire from xoxide comes with a Molex ( Read more... )

I'm reading the online buzz about "Shortbus" this morning. It got a 10-minute standing ovation for its world-premiere at Cannes. A movie reviewer for About.com had this to say:

Without going too far out on a limb, I feel that Shortbus has the potential to become one of the films that redefine audience expectations, a watershed that divides other ( Read more... )

"Shortbus" -- wow. This is what movies have forgotten how to be. Don't miss it. (Link there is to a good interview with the director.)

Thematically it's neighbors of "Love, Actually" and Callahan's Place. With sex, yes -- but not trying to be the kind that sells movies.