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Amongst many other things, DrJon writes haiku and senryu in his poetry blog gaijin_haijin and is a prolific linkblogger and occasional social commentor at linkfrenzy.

As His Wholiness the Fairly Rev.DrJon, he is a prominent Discordian, is the creator of the Discordian Wholey Book, the Apocrypha Discordia, discovered and made available the actual legendary lost 1^st Edition of the Principia Discordia, and maintains the Semi-Official Quasi-Clandestine Bavarian Illuminati/Discordian Archives.

He is always happy to answer questions about Discordianism. Please feel free and leave a comment.

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Solve puzzles for science
Some weeks ago a new game called "Fold It" started. It's a protein-folding scientific game developed by biologists.... All you have to do is play an arcade-like game and simultaneously help to create new protein combinations. ...you don't have to be a biologist... contribute to curing such diseases as HIV/AIDS, cancer and Alzheimer's... Read more about it here.

'Worst poet' outsells boy wizard
A private collector has paid £6,600 for poems by the man ridiculed as "the world's worst poet". A total of 35 of William McGonagall's works - many of them autographed - have been up for auction in Edinburgh.

Very trés...




(both via theweaselking)

Anteater Coolness
Tamandua (Tamandua tetradactyla) is a smaller species of anteaters, but some would say they are the "perfect" anteaters - just the right size, and just the right amount of attitude...



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...and Dolphins take to Pleo...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7i_HN_Twdds (Via)

Keep Sunday arvo, May 25th free. I've booked the Alibi Room's downstairs Tiki Lounge from 4-8pm.

The venue can hold up to about 50 people, but I anticipate less. But let me know if you're coming, if you could.

Your presence would be the best present. If you do want to get me something, there's a link on my profile page, but the best thing I ever got for a birthday present was absolutely free, and I love Art. Especially Art made by my friends.

The menu is here. They do some very very nice vegetarian dishes.

Looking forward to seeing you!

(ED: I've invited a swag of peoples on Facebook, but if there's someone local I've forgotterated, please do let me know.)

ihasatardis just coughed up this MASTERpiece... ( Click through Portal... longmacropost is looooooong )

Bonus link: Which USAnian PrezCandidate Makes the Best Sidekick for Which Dr. Who?

news from theweaselking

http://metasploit.com/users/hdm/tools/debian-openssl/
If you have a Debian or Ubuntu system, update *now* and delete all SSH and SSL certificates and keys you generated before the update. Generate new ones, unless you installed openssh TODAY.

For Ubuntu, this affects 7.04+. 6.06 is safe. For Debian, fcuked if I know. Debian is obsolete, pretty much by definition.

A mate of mine (popefelix) has just reworked the old LJ clone site that used to be Scribblit, and it's now been reborn as Inksome.com.

Inksome.com is an 18+ journaling community based on the open source LiveJournal code created by Danga Interactive... so using it will be familiar to you if you've an account here. It's an ad-free, volunteer-driven, fandom-friendly community where fandom and non-fandom members alike are welcome.

Paid accounts are US$25 for a year, or US$10 for 3 months. Or you can go beg for an invite (remember LJ invites?) at inksome_invites.

Basically, if you're into reading or writing the type of stuff which was being collaterally mowed down by LJ management (or, in some cases, targetted...) in the recent LJ purges, you'll probably find Inksome.com friendly and receptive.

So if that type of thing floats your goat, head on over, and feel free and spread the word.

Brains Performs Best When Hydrated
Brains from Thunderbirds takes centre stage in Drench ad

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e2aRDacKANs

Via the baralier

I just read today's australianIT "Ping" email. I quote:

Centrelink in crackdown on cheats
CENTRELINK will match data with banks to indentify fraudsters in a $138 million program.

languagelog

Check this picture out... what could it be?



( Hmm... the envelope, please... ) The big problem I see is in the casting of Irish actor Jason O'Mara in the lead. Like the casting of Craig Bierko as Lister in the USanian version of Red Dwarf, it looks like they'll be playing him as a more beefy, "hero" type instead of the slender and vunerable original character fighting above their weight. (via gmskarka)

Before we get back to some more SciFi, those of you with an artistic bent may be interested in this interview with Dr. Sketchy's creator Molly Crabapple, over at Blather.net. I've not really gotten into the local Dr. Sketchy's... the local Gatekeeper and I have a bit of a History X{P> but I think it's a marvellous idea...

Okay. Battlestar Galactica. The new Razor series tv movie has Original Cylons in it. Have a look at the wonderful new CGI designs (rather Terminatoresque) at Anatomy of a Cylon and Extras. Golden Cylons and comparison shots with the modern version at the second link. Great stuff! (via zarq).

Also from over at zarq, it seems that a new internet 10-webisode series based on Farscape has been commissioned. Never really got into the series myself due to a number of factors, but if it floats your goat, I'm sure you'll be happy at the news.

And here's another Interesting Thing, quoted directly from zarq:

Tommy Westphall's Mind - A Multiverse Explored. In the series finale of the show St. Elsewhere, the audience is given to believe that the entire run of the series had taken place in the imagination of a young autistic boy, Tommy Westphall.

Here's the problem: characters from St. Elsewhere had appeared on 12 other shows during the series' run, and vice versa. Others make mention of specific parts of the St Elsewhere fictional universe, placing them within the same fictional sphere.

So, if St. Elsewhere exists only within Tommy Westphall's mind, then so does every other series set within the same fictional sphere. The site explores the snowball effect of the theory, and shows how 280 shows covering ~60 years of television are interconnected. There's an LJ comm: tommywestphall. More from TV squad. Six objections from Crooked Timber. Also, from televisionary, here. Comic Book animator Dwayne McDuffie addressed this three years ago in "Six Degrees of St. Elsewhere."

andrewducker

(CloudDumbo stolen and reworked from the original by fayanora)

Which reminds me, I've updated my Ceiling Cat Redux: A Retrospective page as well.

(Via)

and this made me happy...



(Via)

The Surprisingly Compleat Adventures of Sir Digby Chicken Caesar!
...and his sidekick Ginger, who believe that they are a pair of detectives in the style of Sherlock Holmes and Doctor Watson when in fact they are drunken tramps. They are so poor that they have to hum their own theme tune, which is usually sung as the intrepid duo are escaping from a crime scene. They believe that plots are constantly being hatched against them by their "nemesis" described as "some bastard who is presumably responsible". Henchmen of their nemesis turn up in the shape of the police or whoever stumbles in front of them.... ( lots of vootoobs )

(via _amaranth__ again!)

Now I'm in search of The Surprisingly Compleat Adventures of Sir Digby Caesar-Salad from the radio series...

( voopiccyClixy )

It's like they know me!

A minor mystery was cleared up for me yesterday... I've been wondering what the name of the Actor who plays the Master as a child in The Sound of Drums was (it's a short appearance, but I was impressed by it), and it turns out he's called William Hughes. He also appears in the Torchwood Season 2 episode Sleeper, but I can't see any cunning RTD clues that the two characters are one.

This Saturday's episode of Doctor Who is called ( SPOILERS, and Poll, and speculations about the craft of writing in general )

Anyway, I have work to do. More of the usual rubbish posts later.

The EMERGENCY PARTY BUTTON!!!

The Emergency Party Button began as a novelty idea that has become the focus of every event that goes on in our home. A big red button is, by human nature, an object of compulsion. If you see it, you are overcome with the desire to push it. But what happens when you do? (More)

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The Ultimate Nerdy Internet Persona Test

Your Score: Lord of the Internet

89% Social, 76% Entertainment, 74% Practical

All hail the Lord of the Internet! Master of the Digital! King of Networking! Emperor of...

Enough of that. You scored high in every category the test registered. That means that either there's something wrong with my test (an obvious impossibility, right?) or you have an attachment to the Internet that is almost transcendent. Your results tell me that you have experience with both hardware and software, know the ins and outs of the Internet and have a range of interests that can be generously described as "broad." Of course to achieve this status, you've no doubt had to neglect other parts of your life. Ultimately, you have to ask: was it REALLY worth it?

...of COURSE it was worth it! How silly of me.

My test tracked 3 variables. How you compared to other people your age and gender:

• You scored higher than 99% on Social
  
• You scored higher than 99% on Entertainment
  
• You scored higher than 99% on Practical

The Ultimate Nerdy Internet Persona Test

theweaselking

Tell me what you see...

(ED: post it as a comment if you've got the image handy)

ED2: to quote someone I'm not going to name because they didn't name me,

The reason I have your icon, or your old icon, or maybe you don't see anything, is that it's pulling out of Livejournal's cached "scratch space"

Basically, if you upload a pic that's too big, it puts it in a scratch space, loads it into the editor, lets you modify it, and lets you save the result in a pic slot.

However, it doesn't *delete* that scratch image. And the image is still there, stored in your account, weeks or months later.

Meaning that this thing pulls out *the last picture you edited using livejournal's picture editor*.

Okay, my birfday's coming up in a couple of weeks. Anyone have any suggestions for Vegetarian Restaurants in the Brisbane CBD/Valley area?

I've been looking for this movie for a few years now... haunting eBay... haunting DVD lists...

The title of this film comes from the works of Uncle Bob (Robert Anton Wilson) on the mysteries of the Prieure du Sion...

Noon Blue Apples 2002 (AKA New World Order) The Trailer

http://myspacetv.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=vids.individual&videoid=424301

Some summaries:

NYT A college student finds herself struggling to separate fact from bizarre supposition in this offbeat independent drama. Eris (Lauren Fox) is working on a research paper concerning fear and social phobia phenomena, when, in the course of her reading, she finds the obscure phrase "Noon Blue Apples" keeps popping up -- not once, but several times. Puzzled about what it's supposed to mean, Eris begins digging a bit deeper than before, and soon encounters Zeus (Thomas Jay Ryan), who runs a bookstore specializing in conspiracy literature. Before long, Zeus is giving Eris a crash course in alternate history, shadow government theories, and forbidden knowledge research, and faster than you can order a subscription to "Flatland Magazine," Eris' head is so full of oddball facts and figures that she can't separate which are true and which are mere paranoia -- leaving her with no idea of who or what she can trust.

Noon Blue Apples was screened at the 2002 Sundance Film Festival. (Mark Deming, All Movie Guide)

SFI Noon Blue Apples is a mind-bending psychological thriller that dives headlong into the paranoid convolutions of a conspiracy theorist's worst nightmare.

Eris, an intense university student, is researching her paper on social phobias. Following a lead, she stumbles upon the diaries of an obscure early 20th Century horror novelist and poet. The strange term "Noon Blue Apples" appears. Once. Twice. Three times. Subversive and discomforting pirate radio transmissions bleed into her stereo headphones as she jogs. The research leads Eris to 23rd Street, and down a flight of stairs to the (literally underground) Chapel Perilous bookstore. There she encounters the eccentric trio who run the store, and they agree to lead her deeper into their world. Soon people seem to be watching her. She follows a path to alien invasions, the Bavarian Illuminati, the Dogon and the Sirius system, the Freemasons and the Priory of Sion and solid evidence that Scott Baio is the Anti-Christ. Synchronicity begins to rip holes in her beliefs, and her vision of reality starts to crumble.

Her skepticism is tested as the most enigmatic and dangerous theories start to make sense. She finds herself slipping into a dangerous parallel world of metaphor, chaos and the struggle to control the world.

Originally presented at the Sundance Festival on videotape as a work-in-progress, we will present the World Premiere of the finished 35mm film. Robert Anton Wilson and Tom Robbins fans rejoice!

IMDB The diary of an occult novelist sends Eris, a young college student, on a journey into the paranormal and fantastic, evolving into a living nightmare of paranoia and terror.

Y! Movies Eris, an intense no-nonsense Columbia University student, is assigned a term paper on social phobias. The assignment leads her to the diaries of an obscure horror writer, where she encounters a world of conspiracy theories, ancient secret societies, and some strange news about blue apples. She ends up at the Chapel Perilous Bookstore, a shop featuring the occult and esoteric, here she meets a wide range of personalities. Her search to solve the mystery of the blue apples sends Eris into a living nightmare where she walks the line between reality and paranoia.