4th of July

Happy 4th of July, for those for whom this day is special, and happy birthday Sarah!

AT&... something or other

(From mendel)

What would you do if you wanted a telegraph installed in your home? Call American Telephone and Telegraph, of course.

Essentialist Explanations

Perhaps you've heard statements along the lines of "Danish is essentially Swedish as spoken with a potato in your mouth"?

Well, John Cowan has collected a list of such "essentialist explanations" which I'll link to for your reading pleasure :)

Offer to create RSS feeds from random web pages

Mostly for my own reference:

An offer to create and host RSS feeds for the low one-time sum of $2.

Things People Said: Warning Labels

Bwahaha! Sometimes people have the funniest things as warning labels on products.

Either stating the really obvious, for people who are, I suppose, even more stupid than you'd expect, or forbidding seemingly strange uses of the product that someone, somewhere, actually made (think "dry cat in microwave"). Some are simply funny because they were apparently translated from Japanese into English by an Armenian, or something like that.

Here's the list, and here are a couple favourites:

"Do not recharge, put in backwards, or use." -- On a battery.

"Do not look into laser with remaining eye." -- On a laser pointer.

"Warning: has been found to cause cancer in laboratory mice." -- On a box of rat poison.

"Warning: May cause drowsiness." -- On a bottle of Nytol, a brand of sleeping pills.

"Remove wrapper, open mouth, insert muffin, eat." -- Instructions on the packaging for a muffin at a 7-11.

"Do not turn upside down." -- On the bottom of a supermarket dessert box.

Edit: you may also be interested in the main "Things People Said" page.

[meme] "Best friend" meme

( My best friend is... )

( And I share at least 10 interests with... )

With alister, that's partly because I found him via findsim, back when it still worked; with a number of the top-ranked ones, it's because I added one or more interests based on their lists.

So it's all rather unscientific.

And here are some more with whom I share at least three interests:

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