It's clobberin' time!!!

Best warning found on a children's toy yet?

POTENTIAL FOR BLUNT IMPACT INJURIES

Hee! That explains soooo much!

Vnimanie! Zlaya belki! (Attention! Beware of squirrel!)

Damn. Looks like even the dogs have it rough in Russia these days. Apparently, a group of squirrels got tired of being barked at and decided to retaliate. A snort-worthy quote:

A pine cone shortage may have led the squirrels to seek other food sources, although scientists are sceptical.

Darn crafters, stealing the pine cones for their own nefarious purposes.

Hmm. As cold as it is getting here, I'd better be sure to toss the tree-rats more treats than usual.

Heh. I love news from Russia!

Via BoingBoing

Smut for smut

Hee! Heeheee heee heeee snort! This group recently gave porn in exchange for religious literature. That's certainly one way to build up your Organization's reference collection, which is one of the reasons they held the swap. Too awesome. Let's see, I think I still have lots of Gideons laying around somewhere....

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Mold-a-rama!

Brandy has a post up (it's the Nov 12 entry) about her experiences with the Mold-A-Rama machine at the Field Museum in Chicago. Man, I've never tried one of those machines! I never even saw one until I was an adult. Maybe they were outlawed in Nebraska or something, although we did have those squash-a-penny machines everywhere. They even have their own museum!

As an adult, I've always walked by and inhaled the enjoyable hot-plastic aroma wafting from the Mold machines, though. Now I'm jealous and will have to find one and atually try it out.

Parents (and siblings, for that matter) versus the computer

Here's an awesome article for those of us who get the inevitable "what's wrong with my computer?" question from our parents (or other technology-leery loved-ones) whenever we visit over the holidays. I'm sure I'll be referring back to this list in just a few days...

Best lines from the article:

To help your parents grok the transition from the blue E to the orange fox, rename Firefox’s desktop shortcut to something more obvious, like “Internet - Mozilla Firefox.

It should go without saying that any software whose title contains the words “bargain,” “tracker,” “snoop” or “monitor” should get removed immediately, and their authors basted for long painful hours over a very hot fire.

So true. I wonder what I'll find on the 'rents computer this year.