Entertaining links and whatnot

By rjb5: A 2.2MB pannable/zoomable Quicktime panorama from the summit of Errigal Mountain in County Donegal, Ireland. Very spiffy.

From Wired via deusinnomen: 101 Ways to Save the Internet. Right on target, indeed. :)

Just because y'all need to see it again, and it's been updated a lot, check out Giant Microbes. Plush stuffed flu, ebola, stomach ache, ulcer, athlete's foot, yeast, sore throat, and more! Very cute. :) Give the plague to the one you love!

By profworm: On suffering and heavy sighs

And now, having slept (or at least lounged) until sometime after 5pm, then read email and LJ, I suppose it's time to shower and eat and whatnot. :)

Quo-tations, taunts and jibes

In the spirit of the new year, here are a few quotes from a friend's Away message:

"The proper behavior all through the holiday season is to be drunk. This drunkenness culminates on New Year's Eve, when you get so drunk you kiss the person you are with."
~ P.J. O'Rourke


"An optimist stays up until midnight to see the new year in. A pessimist stays up to make sure the old year leaves."
~ Bill Vaughan


And every once in a while, my stepgrandmother actually sends an entertaining forward. :)

Literary Taunts

"I feel so miserable without you, it's almost like having you here."
- Stephen Bishop

"A modest little person, with much to be modest about."
- Winston Churchill

"I've just learned about his illness. Let's hope it's nothing trivial."
- Irvin S. Cobb

"I have never killed a man, but I have read many obituaries with great pleasure."
- Clarence Darrow

"He has never been known to use a word that might send a reader to the dictionary."
- William Faulkner (about Ernest Hemingway)

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