Web public service announcements

If this came as a poster, I'd buy it and display it!
Via boingboing.

Down with this sort of thing

Hah.

APA dating website

Selected personals from the American Psychiatric Association's dating website.

"Don't mock me"

Love to laugh? Then you're not my type. Female katagelophobe seeks female geliophobe for serious, no-nonsense relationship.

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.

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.

Binary questions

Is it Christmas?

Has the LHC destroyed the earth?

This family is awesome

Hundreds of cookies, board games, dart guns, throwing flightless birds, configuring bluetooth devices. I had my grammar and vocabulary usage questioned within 20 minutes of being picked up. (Also, it turns out that puffins can fly. So, amend that: "throwing flightless stuffed animals of flight-enabled birds.") Breaking into long monologues from Hamlet. Dinner conversation about the mechanics of virus infections and mathematical models for evolution. Breaking into FotC songs. After-dinner telekinesis practice to make room for dessert. Unexploded cows. The monotonically-increasing awkwardness game. Exploded cows. Breaking into OE sketches. Spare computers everywhere.

My family rocks. What a piece of work is man!

This kind of thing just happens all the time

Intentional or ironic?