Nothin' but linkspam

[cleolinda]

... because I am tired, though for no particular reason. I think it's the PCOS.

'Can I quit now?' FEMA chief wrote as Katrina raged.

Senate Emerges From Closed Session on Iraq.

Death Possible for GI in Iraq 'Fragging'.

Senate's 'Gang of 14' Fractures Over Alito.

The Washington Post reports that the CIA holds captives in secret prisons abroad.

Debate rages on use of cervical cancer vaccine: "While almost 100% effective, some contend use condones teen sex."

Scientists Find Fossils in Sexual Union and Fear for the Virtue of the Nation's Schoolchildren.

Shots fired as French riots escalate, everyone surrenders.

Greenpeace to be fined as Rainbow Warrior damages Philippines coral reef.

Killer Sought Solace Online--specifically, on the Something Awful forums. In SA's defense, given the nature of their forums, they didn't believe the kid was actually going to shoot someone. But,as posters there say: "Okay. Deep breaths guys. Did we make fun of an autistic [Asperger's] kid, tell him where he can find buckshot, then laughed about it? Oh, shit." "Yeah, we did. And then he killed people. And himself. I don't think I'm sleeping tonight."

ohnotheydidnt: Tom's 5 rules for Teh Katiebot (really, do pregnant women need curfews?) and Kevin Federline DENIED! at the ATM. Twice. We knew he was going to run through all of Brit's money, but so soon?

Queen Latifah and Laila Ali an item?

50 Cent disagrees with Kanye West; sales of bulletproof vests skyrocket.

God, I wish I could remember where I saw this link, because it's hilarious. Happy early Thanksgiving!

Fireworks Promised on Live 'West Wing' Debate. And after that? A two-hour L&O: CI based on the Natalee Holloway case. Oh, that won't stir up folks around here at all.

Fancy, fancy chocolate.

Screw that, I want this. Omg nuts and milk chocolate. What? My tastes are simple. Expensive, but simple.

(Do not actually buy chocolate and mail it to me. These links are for entertainment purposes only.)

How can you not love a movie with this title?

For those of you who love the "Together, They Fight Crime!" page: Now They Ded from Coke!

The best Kingdom of Loathing quest EVER: 

Ah, good, just the Adventurer we wanted to see. We expect that, by now, you've noticed all the temporal rifts popping up around the Kingdom. Well, in our historical archive, we found an old medical journal dating back to the Cola Wars. Apparently, many soldiers on both sides of the war were infected by a mysterious plague, contracted from some of the many unexpected reinforcements that joined the two armies during the battle for the Nearby Plains. The symptoms described sound eerily similar to the plague that's been infecting our population in the present time.

The bad news is: the journal says that, left uncured, the Gray Plague turns those infected with it into mindless, slavering zombies. The good news is: the military doctors were able to formulate a vaccine for the Gray Plague. The other bad news is: the primary ingredient for the cure is a certain gland found in the heads of the aforementioned zombies.

However, we've been able to come up with a solution. Don't ask how, but we've managed to create a rift that leads to a temporal location of our choosing, to wit: the Seaside Town, 28 days from now, after the entire population of the Kingdom has transformed into zombies. We need you to travel there and collect the ingredients for the cure, and then bring them back to the current time so that we can figure out how to immunize the citizens of Loathing against the infection.

Oh, and don't try to leave the town while you're in the future, as the rest of the Kingdom is highly radioactive. Apparently, one of us decided -- um, decides? Will be going to decide? -- that nuking the Kingdom from orbit would be the only way to be sure. It probably will have sounded like a good idea at the time.

Ancient Burial Ground Discovered in N.Y. Under Inevitably Haunted House.

Wow, Anne Rice's Jesus book is out already?

ETA: The official Harry Potter site has updated.


I had some other links, I think, but I'm too hungry. Off to find sustenance.

Comments

[bubosquared.livejournal.com]

And of course I ascended hardcore oxygenarian the day before that new quest arrived. Grar.

[jedilora.livejournal.com]

Seriously, I'm loving the 28 Days Later quest. Even though the zombies keep kicking my ass. I'm leveel 9! I should be better at this!

[cleolinda.livejournal.com]

My question is, how do you know when you're done?

[scornedsaint.livejournal.com]

That Thanksgiving card was the best, although I wish you hadn't posted the cervical cancer debate link, because that story is pissing me off for multiple reasons.

Random M15M book question: in the Spiderman one, where someone calls Mary-Jane a stone fox, was that a "Virgin Suicides" shout-out?

[cleolinda.livejournal.com]

It was partly a shout-out, although I'd heard the expression used before that. But it was also a Troy/15M reference. : )

[fateorlate.livejournal.com]

How much you wanna bet all of us with Asperger's are going to be labeled psycho freaks as well as retards?

[lots42.livejournal.com]

Wait, didn't that happen already?

[bluebythebook.livejournal.com]

But, if anyone wants to send me chocolate, I'm so game.

[rhowan-jane.livejournal.com]

LOL! Awesome.

[arayuldaiel.livejournal.com]

Aha, that fossils article made me giggle way more than it should have. XD

[astael.livejournal.com]

Ohhh, Vosages. Their Red Fire bar is so good I could cry.

[greenwitch.livejournal.com]

Bwaha, can I tell you, as an archaeologist, I have a huge fear of finding human bones? It freaks me out like nothing else. We were at a site once where there was record of a burial ground being on the property, and I thought I found a finger bone and I nearly flipped (later I found what looked like rotted boards about two feet down, and I thought it was a coffin... *shudder* I don't think it was, though, in retrospect -- still too shallow.)

[bacardibreezer7.livejournal.com]

can I tell you, as an archaeologist, I have a huge fear of finding human bones?

My ex is an archaeologist and last year he spent 2 months on a dig in Cyprus excavating a 5,000 year old tomb. The skeletons were so old the skulls had disintegrated. He thought it was the most funnest thing ever and had a great time investigating all these human bones. It freaked me out to the max and now he's just a creepy person to me. :)

[lolathehated.livejournal.com]

how i love KoL. of course, i.m still pretty new (level 4) so those zombie things eat me alive. literally.

:D

[barrelgoddess.livejournal.com]

I don't think there is a way to accurately express in words how batshit fucking insane Tom Cruise is. @_@

*kicks Michael Brown in the balls. Repeatedly.*

[cattikins.livejournal.com]

OMG MOONSTRUCK. I love Moonstruck. The cafe in Chicago is fantastic.

[boarderbunny.livejournal.com]

See, when I went there I got this 'Mexican Spice Mocha' and I swear to god, I was coughing because they put cayenne pepper in it! But you get the little free chocolate on top so it's not all bad. :)

[shesnotallthere.livejournal.com]

Have worked many, many hours. Am ded. Linkspam, to me, reads "BlahblahCHOCOLATEblah", and it made me giggle. For about ten minutes.

SO. TIRED.

Also...PCOS? What dat?

[cleolinda.livejournal.com]

Polycystic ovarian syndrome. Relatively common, and I don't have any cysts (that I know of). It can just be a major pain in the ass hormone-wise and cycle-wise, and for some reason, it's always really bad this time of year for me. Maybe starting school each year (i.e., stress) exacerbates it, or something.

[txvoodoo.livejournal.com]

I'm gonna self-pimp here, but only because it seems to have touched a chord in so many people at this time of year: How to avoid the autumn time-shifting blues (http://www.livejournal.com/users/voodoo_in_tx/336191.html)

If we can help some friends avoid blue times, YAY! And hey, folks can add in THEIR surefire fixes :D

[cleolinda.livejournal.com]

Oh, dude, this is so important. I've finally figured out that I struggle with depression in the fall, but because it's chock full of holidays and birthdays, I can kind of lurch between Happy Shiny Days. But then we hit January, and the holidays for the next half of the year... well, they're not that compelling, at best, and they're fucking depressing for a lot of people at worst (hello Valentine's!). And that's when I tend to bottom out, the beginning of the year. Hell, I nearly flunked out my senior year of college because of that.

Adding to which: I was reading somewhere a month or so ago that fifteen minutes in direct sunlight a day can make a huge difference in terms of SAD.

[koritsimou.livejournal.com]

So many of those links make me want to curl up in a corner and cry. GAH.

Also? Tom Cruise is now officially abusive. WHY does she not see this?

[mouseykins1.livejournal.com]

Aiee, chocolate! God, those sundae truffles look amazing. I bet they're about the size of a bottlecap, though.
Heh, Girl Slaves. Nothing can beat 'Snakes on a Plane', though.
The word 'fragging' always makes me feel diiiirty.

[barrelgoddess.livejournal.com]

Nothing can beat 'Snakes on a Plane', though.

Agreed. XD

[angeleyesjg24.livejournal.com]

*grins* I got my copies of "Movies in 15 Minutes" today! Squeee. Have already read Jurassic Park and Independence Day. I love the way you set up the Independence Day one as a "what to do for Sci-fi films" manual.

I'm trying to pace myself and not read it all at once, but I keep reaching for it. I cannot resist the power of the Cleolinda.

Just so you know- I've sent off two requests for bookplates. One for myself, and one for the book I'm gonna give my friend. I can't wait to get that too!

*off to read*
Anna M

[cleolinda.livejournal.com]

I love the way you set up the Independence Day one as a "what to do for Sci-fi films" manual.

Well, you'll really love Spider-Man, then. ; )

[pygmymetal.livejournal.com]

Moonstruck is indeed the best chocolate around. There's a shop about 2 miles from me. And they sell it in the local grocery store as well.

I guess I *do* live in heaven! ;)

[txvoodoo.livejournal.com]

Oh, btw? I'm desperately going to be looking for downloads of West Wing this week, since I want to see BOTH versions, west and east coast, especially if they're going to AD LIB!

If I find them, want me to share?

[cleolinda.livejournal.com]

I don't actually watch WW, but sharing/links would probably be very helpful for others. : )

[rachelmanija.livejournal.com]

Let me know when you get my book, please-- what with my ongoing problems with Netflix discs going missing or arriving two weeks after they were sent out, I am getting paranoid about stuff getting Lost in the mail.

Speaking of which, I am now caught up on season 2. OMGWTFcomputer?!

[cleolinda.livejournal.com]

I just got it today! I haven't even mailed my books out--any of them--so I was sort of like, "Oh shit!" It's v. v. pretty, though. : )

[entropygoddess.livejournal.com]

Because yes, teenage girls who dare to have sex should be punished with death by cervical cancer. That'll show 'em!

Grrr, I hate the right wing. If they want to be ignorant and scientifically backward, fine, but they should leave the rest of us alone.

[barrelgoddess.livejournal.com]

Seriously. Extremists suck. Come on, teenage girls who want to have sex will do so regardless of having been vaccinated or not, and that ridiculous abstinence education is not going to make a difference either. In fact, isn't it only making things worse? It can't do any good, that's for certain...

[etherealshores.livejournal.com]

10 pm curfew?

Oh, that's really f*cked up.

Tom scares me.

[lylassandra.livejournal.com]

On the upside, I adore your icon...

[nasus221.livejournal.com]

On the cervical cancer thing-this debate has been going on forever-Will allowing the pill encourage sex? Will sex education encourage sex??? It's so enfuriating. I'm just fed up and like "give us the information, give us the tools, let us have the decision."

[barrelgoddess.livejournal.com]

Word.

[gravities.livejournal.com]

I get to claim credit for posting the turkey link to Snarkfest (as grayeagle), but now I can't find where I got it from!

Am also enjoying the book. New baby in the house means that I get to spread it out. I ended up ordering it from UK b/c I also wanted the Hitchhikers Guide radio series, which you can only get over there. So that worked out.

[cleolinda.livejournal.com]

Hey hey! How *is* the grayeaglet doing?

[bacardibreezer7.livejournal.com]

I have PCOS too and it sucks balls. I've been feeling tired lately too and not sure why, but maybe that's the cause.

Other thoughts:

- I was really disappointed to find out those shagging fossils weren't human.
- Tom Cruise is fucked in the head. But I've known that for a while.
- Kevin Federline is a loser. Throw rocks at him.

[lady-tavington.livejournal.com]

Greenpeace to be fined as Rainbow Warrior damages Philippines coral reef.

OMG, thank you SOOO much for posting that. I'm all for Greenpeace, but I didn't think they would ever get away with wrecking the coral reefs here. They're beautiful, our coral reefs, really priceless, and I was really mad when I found out a couple of days ago about this. Thanks so much for posting that.