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[jazzfish]

(Real post later today.)

Panexa. "Ask your doctor for a reason to take it." [Via salzara_tirwen]

When there is no more room in the oven, the bread shall walk the earth! [via skreidle]

If World War II Was an RTS: I cannot read paTTon's closing line "weeeee i got a jeep" without cracking up. [via jadelennox]

Thanks to Making Light, I learn that Octavio Ocampo's brilliant portrait of Jimmy Carter can now be seen online.

Now that's a EULA. "NOTICE TO USER: BY METABOLIZING YOU ACCEPT ALL THE TERMS AND CONDITIONS OF THIS AGREEMENT INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, USE OF YOUR HOME AND CAR BY THE AUTHORS OF THIS AGREEMENT."

The Very Secret Diary of Bill the Pony. "Joy of joys, unbelievable amounts of hobbit food wasn't enough, now have to lug around Elf haircare products as well."

And especially for baranoouji, robot hand towels.

And the top twenty geek novels, as voted by Edit: a small number of Guardian readers. The ones I've read are bolded. [via ts52, who appears to be Patient Zero.]

1. The HitchHiker's Guide to the Galaxy -- Douglas Adams
2. Nineteen Eighty-Four -- George Orwell
3. Brave New World -- Aldous Huxley --it's on my to-do list
4. Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? -- Philip Dick
5. Neuromancer -- William Gibson
6. Dune -- Frank Herbert
7. I, Robot -- Isaac Asimov
8. Foundation -- Isaac Asimov
9. The Colour of Magic -- Terry Pratchett --other Discworlds, just not this one
10. Microserfs -- Douglas Coupland --the hell?
11. Snow Crash -- Neal Stephenson
12. Watchmen -- Alan Moore & Dave Gibbons
13. Cryptonomicon -- Neal Stephenson --someone get this man an editor, stat!
14. Consider Phlebas -- Iain M Banks --also on my to-do list
15. Stranger in a Strange Land -- Robert Heinlein
16. The Man in the High Castle -- Philip K Dick
17. American Gods -- Neil Gaiman
18. The Diamond Age -- Neal Stephenson
19. The Illuminatus! Trilogy -- Robert Shea & Robert Anton Wilson
20. Trouble with Lichen - John Wyndham --this and not Day of the Triffids? odd.

Comments

[baranoouji.livejournal.com]

I can't see the joy that is robot hand towels! Will wait patiently-like.

Also, have read: 1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,11,12,13,15,17,18 (FOR THE LOVE OF GOD READ THIS ONE, I CAN LEND YOU MY AUTOGRAPHED COPY BUT YOU WILL HAVE TO SIGN A SUICIDE PACT TO ENSURE THAT IT STAYS IN ONE PIECE.).

-E.

[jazzfish]

*frown* That is quite strange. The robot towels work for me on Firefox . . .

I suppose I ought to go ahead and read Diamond Age. I thought Snow Crash was rather cool, and that Cryptonomicon was a fine 400-page story told over 900 pages.