more affection in a handshake!

[verbminx]

Watching Frida; it's better than I expected. Was going to go to a movie earlier tonight (well, it would be starting now), but I got sucked in. N-cat is watching it too. I'm not joking; there are certain movies he'll watch over and over.

Some of you may have noticed that I'm actually reading my friends pages this week. I had been really lax about doing it when packing and moving. I made a New Year's Resolution to try to read around 100 entries per day. That way, I'm not overwhelmed, but I do see a lot of what people are saying. I stopped reading a few very high-traffic communities. Right now the only ones I read that get a lot of posts are fruits and lotricons. 50bookchallenge is also quite busy. I had to let craftgrrl and hipdomestics go for the time being.

Anyway - some good links. Most probably stolen from MeFi or b0ingb0ing as usual.

Common-Place: a quasi-academic (good research but not completely bogged down with jargon) journal of American antiquarian (IE, pre-1900) studies. A lot of smart writing about race and class in America in the 18th and 19th centuries. Worth a look.

This Magical Book - Victorian/Edwardian pop-up, tunnel, star, etc books. These are still popular forms today, so check out some glorious antique examples.

List of Lists - All the lists (best books, movies, music, theater, etc) from all the publications.

The King William's College General Knowledge Quiz for 2003 - this must have been impossible before Google. Here's a page of suspected answers. I don't know if The Guardian has published the real answers yet.

Lords of the Rhymes - um. rap "straight outta hobbiton." this is very wrong.

NetHack - oh, the excitement and dread of being chased around by ASCII symbols!

Adriafil Yarn Co. - scary (yet free!) Italian knitting designs.

Comments

[bioproject.livejournal.com]

Oh dear, I have such fond memories of net hack (from jr. high and early high school).

[mizzytizzy.livejournal.com]

King William's College quiz always makes my brain feel funny.
I'm surprised to know any of the answers this time. Maybe I'm smarter than I was last year. I think that it's good for your brain to feel funny in this imbued with things you don't know but want to look up now sort of way, no?

*wobbles*

xoxo

[verbminx.livejournal.com]

It's been an addiction the last couple of years... I really look forward to it. I need to use Google on about 2/3 of it, but I appreciate learning things. One thing I've noticed is that there is almost ALWAYS a "Master of Ballantrae" question on it - someone on the faculty must be obsessed! :)

[zoe-trope.livejournal.com]

Excellent linkage.

Also: Isn't it amazing how leaving a couple communities can open up so much room on your Friends page?

[verbminx.livejournal.com]

Totally! Especially when they're either terribly repetitive or not currently in your purview. I think I'm going to have to stop reading fruits for the time being, too... it's getting kind of exhausting to look at endless pictures of bulky legwarmers and chunky boots. I don't really leave the comms but I do take them off my friends list until I start to miss them. It's really more important to keep up with PEOPLE, I think.