shanmonster: (Spasmolytic)
Tome is first handmade Bible in 500 years: Gorgeous illuminated text on vellum looks quite a bit like a high-scale graphic novel (thanks, [livejournal.com profile] chrysippvs).

Things I Learn From My Patients: Contains such sage advice as "If you are going to get into a fight, and have a prosthetic eye, make sure you take it out first.....and, for safe keeping, shove it up your vagina.....the, realize that you cannot get it out and go to the ED for removal".

BDSS Solos From Monte Carlo: The Bellydance Superstars have a new DVD, and it's only available at their shows. Hmm...

Knife Block: Probably a bit too morbid for most kitchens, but I rather like it.

Dawn of the Dead: Someone knit the movie (I think you'll like this, [livejournal.com profile] psoridian).

Women Get Infections After Tattoo From Door-To-Door Salesman: Well, duh!

Meditation found to increase brain size: My skull's already stuffed with brains.

Fish School: Teach your goldfish to play soccer.

A really, really no-frills ride...: "Migrant workers in south China are wearing adult diapers on packed trains heading home for the Lunar New Year holiday because they have no access to a toilet."

British school bans raising hands: "The same children often wave their arms in the air, but when teachers try to involve less adventurous pupils by choosing them instead, it leads to feelings of victimization." How lame is this? Very.

Japanese Scientists Identify Ear Wax Gene: This could be the most important discovery since penicillin. "Earwax comes in two types, wet and dry. The wet form predominates in Africa and Europe, where 97 percent or more of the people have it, and the dry form among East Asians, while populations of Southern and Central Asia are roughly half and half. By comparing the DNA of Japanese with each type, the researchers were able to identify the gene that controls which type a person has."

Lovelorn Canadian writes to 3,700 Sabines: Is it romantic, stalking behaviour, bathetic, or a combination thereof?

Intelligence Test: I'm miffed because I only score as intelligent, and [livejournal.com profile] f00dave is ranking as a genius. Grr....
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Date: 2006-01-30 06:04 pm (UTC)From: [identity profile] shanmonster.livejournal.com
I only got 17, and it's annoying me. Dave got 26 or 27, I think.
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Date: 2006-01-30 07:20 pm (UTC)From: [identity profile] minstrel70.livejournal.com
That stinks. I was thinking of checking the code for the rest.

Got 30. There's a part 2, by the way. It's harder.

Date: 2006-01-30 05:40 pm (UTC)From: [identity profile] bboyneko.livejournal.com
You repost a lot of stuff from boingboing.net

Date: 2006-01-30 06:06 pm (UTC)From: [identity profile] bboyneko.livejournal.com
It's the world's most popular blog. Highest traffic of any blog around. If random interesting links are your thing, then boingboing is your thing.

Date: 2006-01-30 06:13 pm (UTC)From: [identity profile] bboyneko.livejournal.com
yes work safe. Fun site. I always find interesting things there.

Date: 2006-01-30 06:38 pm (UTC)From: [identity profile] shanmonster.livejournal.com
Thanks!

Date: 2006-01-30 07:05 pm (UTC)From: [identity profile] snowy-kathryn.livejournal.com
Yay! I'm a genius too!

Date: 2006-01-30 08:33 pm (UTC)From: [identity profile] forestmaster.livejournal.com
I got to 19 and stopped so I could get some work done... I was stuck at 18 for a while and just left the window open between LJ browsing (and work) and came back to it... some are easy phrases but not necessarily the words I would use to say the same thing if that makes sense...

Date: 2006-01-30 11:40 pm (UTC)From: [identity profile] arthane.livejournal.com
Quite a number of religious and sports-related items on there...

... Needless to say I didn't do very well. :)

Date: 2006-01-31 12:48 am (UTC)From: [identity profile] prolixfootle.livejournal.com
I finally got them all...

Date: 2006-01-31 06:29 pm (UTC)From: [identity profile] minstrel70.livejournal.com
Ack! You owe it to the rest of us to post the answers! I'm still racking my brain over the last 3 I couldn't get. Perhaps if I sit a hundred monkeys down at a hundred computers...

Date: 2006-01-31 10:26 pm (UTC)From: [identity profile] f00dave.livejournal.com
Just google one or two of the answers you do know in quotes. There are many solutions out there ... ones that reveal just how stunningly specific this silly "test" is to a particular culture/environment.

Date: 2006-01-31 11:11 pm (UTC)From: [identity profile] prolixfootle.livejournal.com
Indeed. Very vexing, especially since I'm not particularly familiar with rugby, cricket or South Africa.

Date: 2006-01-31 05:35 am (UTC)From: (Anonymous)
I quit at 19 just to prevent it from becoming a time sink. Maybe I'll go back later so I can share Super Genius status with Wile E Coyote...

Date: 2006-01-31 05:36 am (UTC)From: [identity profile] entropy156.livejournal.com
Whoops....so much for the genius thing. I didn't notice that I had been logged out when I posted.

Date: 2006-02-02 04:18 pm (UTC)From: [identity profile] jwee1125.livejournal.com
25...I need the answers to the rest.

They don't understand what they are doing to me without giving me the rest of them!

Update

Date: 2006-02-02 05:23 pm (UTC)From: [identity profile] jwee1125.livejournal.com
Just got to 30...this is going to be my ruin.

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