What's in a name?

As it turns out, having an unpopular name makes you more likely to become a juvenile delinquent. The study is an obvious abuse of statistics, but it does explain a lot of urges I feel. As it turns out, Ernest is a dangerous dangerous name. Just as naming your child Diogenes nearly guarantees that he will be a philosopher, naming him Ernest ensures that he will be a criminal. You are all warned, and the government probably has tabs on me.

Crossbow!

Wii Crossbow (via Gizmodo)!The faux finish is what really gets me.

Mandelbrot teddy bear

Via Boing Boing.

The Recently Deflowered Girl, illustrated by Edward Gorey

Everyone and their brothers was blogging about this yesterday, and many of them also emailed it to me. I appreciated it, too, every time I got it.

It was available on livejournal here yesterday (a livejournalist had found it on his landlord's shelf, and scanned it), but it's gone today (and the user is deleted!). So sad.

It is currently duplicated here.

Local headline

"Turkey hospitalized after barn fire at Farm Sanctuary"

Don't worry, no turkeys were killed. But one male turkey ("Chicky") might have suffered smoke inhalation.

Thank you, Ithaca Journal.

E.: when our father announced this at the breakfast table, I misheard him. I thought he said "Turkey hospitalized after bar fight." This would have been more exciting.