Monthly Archives: May 2005

Finding from Josh

Despite being between jobs, Josh still finds time to conduct useful research.

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Commune with the fallen

He’s closer than you realize.

Zabasearch

Ok so zabasearch is a bit scary due to how much info is being made available. But it does turn up some interesting results for certain searches:

Search 1

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Honoring George Lucas

To celebrate Star Wars Episode III opening this week:

Jon: “I bet they’re …chewy! Har har har!!!”

You can find the recipe in this book, The Star Wars CookBook: Wookie Cookies and Other Galactic Recipes (by Robin Davis)

Harvesting the ghosts of geek past

Two geeky items –

1) I was a big Sandman (Neil Gaiman) fan in my youth – now he and his collaborator Dave McKean showed their new movie MirrorMask at Sundance this year (it’s been called “Labyrinth for the 21st century”). I saw the trailer for it last night and it looks very surreal and interesting.

2) Remember The Dark Crystal, the underappreciated Jim Henson fantasy with a cult following? Well apparantly there is a sequel in the works.

Cool site

“Omnipelagos finds the shortest paths between any two things”

For example, there is a link between Smegma and Ann Coulter:

Smegma

[Smegma among humans] edema. Adherence of the foreskin to the inflamed and edematous glans penis is one cause of phimosis [4]

Phimosis
incidence reports and widely varying post-neonatal circumcision rates reflect looseness in the diagnostic

Circumcision
[Reasons for circumcision / Religious and cultural circumcision] a set of texts explaining Islamic law that most Muslims view as authoritative. Most Muslims believe that

Sharia
[Freedom of Speech / Domestic justice] many Westerners can be driven into attitudes reminiscent of, or actually partaking in, Islamophobia

Islamophobia
[Examples of Islamophobia] Ann Coulter: “We should invade their countries, kill their leaders and convert them to Christianity.”

Ann Coulter

Oddly, as discovered by Jon, there is no link between butt and crack, though it should be obvious.

Invasion Force

Google Maps found a UFO!


(from Google Sightseeing)

Iris during our Mother’s Day trip back from Ft. Lauderdale / Boca Raton

Test of mobile blogging

Test of mobile blogging

Mobile blog pic!