James Joyce, apparently

July 23rd, 2010 § 0

The newly nearly-memeified website IWL.me compares samples of your writing to the works of famous authors by analyzing sentence structure, word choice, and things like that.  It’s not always accurate,1 but it’s nifty.

Anyways, I fed a bunch of short stories I’ve written into it, and a good 50% of the time it claims that I write like James Joyce! Not, of course, that I’m as brilliant as he — it’s probably just that we us a similar amount of semicolons. Hopefully at least I’m not as confusing as the Irish genius!

But maybe it’s all wrong.  After all, IWL.me is an initialism for “I Write Like . . . me.”

Now I gotta go read some Joyce.

  1. Digital analysis of intangibles often tends toward mistake, though: Typealyzer gets my first three type preferences dead wrong. [↩]

Monstrous Magnificence in Miniature

July 18th, 2010 § 0

300+ Monsters.

At a resolution of 30×30 pixels.

With facts.

Green? What’s that?

July 17th, 2010 § 0

To build sympathy with the colorblind, try Wickline’s Colorfilter! Guaranteed to make any webpage look like you have daltonism, dichromacy, or a vision deficiency of another hue.  Notice no difference?  Perhaps this is no illusion!

Wickline’s Colorfilter.  For Sympathy, Awareness, and Diagnosis-at-home.

(NOT FOR CONSUMPTION WHILE PREGNANT, INEBRATED, OR OTHERWISE INCAPABLE OF WALKING IN A STRAIGHT LINE AND LOOKING AT YOUR FEET AT THE SAME TIME.  SIDE EFFECTS MAY VARY.  USE AS DIRECTED.)

Vader, kijk naar de bloemen!

July 16th, 2010 § 0

Even dark lords have to take a break from time to time. And what more relaxing recreation exists than a stroll through Naboo’s countryside with a little kid and a jaunty parasol?

Also, it appears Robin isn’t Batman’s only lover . . .

Ha. Haha. Hahaha!

July 15th, 2010 § 0

Laughter can make almost anything seem funny, as my friend Loren Crisp has demonstrated.

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Tip for aspiring comedians: stock a well-paid laughing gallery, and you’ll go far.

Animated Discussion

July 3rd, 2010 § 0


Terry Gilliam, brilliant director of surreal films like Brazil and artist behind all the hilarious animations in Monty Python, knows his stuff.  Here he lists what he considers to be the ten best animated films . . . of all time!

Future Fashion Now

June 29th, 2010 § 0

“. . .Yet another designer goes so far as to believe that skirts will disappear entirely!”

J/K, Abe

June 25th, 2010 § 0

Self-concerned prophetic writings are always a little wacky, both when they come shockingly true . . .

I wouldn’t be surprised if today was known as Harry Potter day in the future—there will be books written about Harry—every child in our world will know his name!

— J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone, p. 13

. . . and turn hilariously false:

The world will little note, nor long remember what we say here, but it can never forget what they did here.

— Abraham Lincoln, The Gettysburg Address

There are few things funnier than seeing the above line graven in huge letters on the wall of the Lincoln Memorial.

Of Corvettes and People-Seeds

June 20th, 2010 § 0

Philosophy Experiments is a fascinating little site with questionnaires to test the internal consistency of your beliefs about stuff like God and murder, as well as a handful of logic puzzles that humans seem hardwired to fail.  I never quite understood the Monty Hall problem until I saw it explained here.

The only downside?  Needs moar experiments!

Pork at the End of the Universe . . .

June 19th, 2010 § 0

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