Tontie will steal your free time, your patience and your soul. So much for Friday productivity.

How Will I Know Her?
"When we meet new girls we ask them if they would like to participate in this project. They are photographed holding photographs of the ones they miss..." Oddly effective.

The Hospital Flash spookiness. oooooooOOOOOOOooooooo.

For those times when you absolutely, positively have to have a lifesize, wax Minnie Pearl in your bathroom. The voiceover makes this even stranger than it already is. Sorry if I doublepost over the next month; I've been gone for awhile.

Nothing can prepare you for: CHENGWIN! Yes, Chengwin: half chicken/half penguin and his arch enemies Chunk (half skunk) and Chixon (half Nixon). If this isn't strange enough for you, there's always the adventures of Chabio (half... well, you know). more inside

Fly me to the mooooon I'm going there right now; if a couple of you join me, I'll try to fly to the earth with you. (flash req.)

Music from John Hughes Movies By and large, it's not my cup of tea; but who could resist the lure of "Holiday Roohhhahhaaaahhooohhaahhoooahhooooaahhhooooad; Holiday Rooohhhooooaaaahhohhhahhaahhooooaahd!"

The inevitable "I'm Rick James, BITCH!" soundboard. Those of you without cable or any clue what all the fuss has been about can catch the (realplayer) video here.

Very embarrassed by how badly I did on this the first time out, but by the third time I could beat it. And now I know where Montana is.

GLORIOUS NEWS: SharpeWorld is (mostly) back! If you've never been, go and bookmark NOW. I'll wait. P.S.: 100th post! yay , me!

Tonmo: The Octopus News Magazine Online Comes with octopus porn, nautiloids, tats, and toons; just for starters.

Sleep Tight Sweet Prince "In France, the discovery is akin to solving the mystery of where Amelia Earhart's plane went down in the Pacific Ocean in 1937." via negatendo

“Hi! I'm from Google. I'm a Googlebot! I will not kill you.” Gave me a chuckle.

The World's Only Ass Kicking Machine

J.G.I.W.Y.P. Don't blame me, I got it from Esselle. It's a frightening world.

Inspired by this post: The Megapenny Project "Since the first penny was minted in 1787, until present-day, over 300 billion pennies have been minted in the United States." So what exactly does that mean? An excellent way to conceptualize the unconceivable.

Maestro!
Music please! It's time for a Super Mario Blowout edition! more inside

Clever Monkey: Dropload Clever Monkey: Dropload is a deceptively simple free utility with almost limitless potential: 50 megs of space that you are allowed to use to drop off a file. Your account name is your email; when someone drops off a file, you're alerted by email and can decide if you want to download. Anonymous dropoff is allowed and although the potential for negative mischief is there, the greater potential is that you can receive little gifts from a circle of e-friends all day long! Used intelligently, with discretion and the occasional donation, this could be the start of something great in terms of communication for those of us that have had to rely on small and restrictive freebie email accounts to send and recieve information. more inside

Mario Reloaded
Shot by shot. Unbelievable. more inside

It's not what you say, but how you say it.
Two great linguistic-geek websites, both courtesy of Penny Arcade, of all places:
The Harvard University Dialect Map Survey "What do you call the big clumps of dust that gather under furniture and in corners?" and The Speech Accent Archive "Please call Stella. Ask her to bring these things with her from the store: Six spoons of fresh snow peas, five thick slabs of blue cheese, and maybe a snack for her brother Bob. We also need a small plastic snake and a big toy frog for the kids. She can scoop these things into three red bags, and we will go meet her Wednesday at the train station."