One of these days, I should probably update the main page of my website. One of these days.

In the meantime, pretty pictures!. And look, more pretty pictures! Pictures will probably be shifting from the latter to the former address, to take some of the load off my account at f2o. . .

I Am Not My Cock.
Take II. Followup.

Someday I will actually write something original here, I swear. In the meantime, another list!

• Places linked from other places that I intend to read sometime:
  • Blog of a Bookslut
  • Eclectic Librarian
  • Confessions of a Science Librarian
  • Confessions of a Mad Librarian
  • LISNews: ‘This Week in LibraryBlogLand’
• Yahoo vs. Google visually compares results lists for queries of the two search engines. Try it with ‘Ann Arbor’. (Flash required)
• via Apostropher:
  • Tranny Crab!
  • Six-legged, two-penised puppy discovered at Malaysian temple, adopted as good-luck charm.
• Apparently, God and Santa are roommates. . . .

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Message received this morning from “your manager, Selma” (one of those things I always wanted, and never knew I already had….):

You forgot to take this nice bagatelle!
We have the best prices for all things every boy needs!
Its possible to take it on-line!
Youll get it immediately!
The super quality is guaranteed!
[1][web address redacted]
You deserve the best. All is pay less.
Be deleted:
[2][web address redacted]
Best, Regards,
Selma

From MoveOn.org, edited for HTML:

You know that email petition that keeps circulating about how Congress is slashing funding for NPR and PBS? Well, now it’s actually true. (Really. Check the footnotes if you don’t believe me.)/p>

Sign the petition telling Congress to save NPR and PBS

The House of Representatives is about to vote on whether to slash funding for NPR and PBS, starting with “Sesame Street,” “Reading Rainbow” and other commercial-free children’s shows. If approved, this would be the most severe cut in the history of public broadcasting, threatening to pull the plug on Big Bird, Cookie Monster and Oscar the Grouch.

The cuts would eliminate more than $200 million for NPR, PBS and local stations immediately, with more cuts likely in the future. The loss could kill beloved children’s shows like “Clifford the Big Red Dog,” “Arthur,” and “Postcards from Buster.” Rural stations and those serving low-income communities might not survive. Other stations would have to increase corporate sponsorships.

The House will vote on the cuts this week. Can you help us reach 1 million signatures calling on Congress to save NPR and PBS today?

P.S. Read the New York Times story on the threat to NPR and PBS, then read the New York Times story on this campaign to save NPR and PBS.

• I like lists.
• What, I wonder, is the philosophy of the tripping leopard? — Tiny Cat Pants
• As the Washington Post reports, Republicans may want to think twice about tangling with Sen. Patrick Leahy. Leahy (D-VT) recently disclosed in Senate gift-reporting filings that he has received a gift of a handgun from an old college friend—and not just any handgun, but a .50-caliber Smith and Wesson with a 10-inch barrel.

  Bet Dick Cheney won’t be telling him to go fuck himself again anytime soon. . . .

• Michael McGrorty of Library Dust might be selling some bumper stickers if there is sufficient interest: “Libraries are Free / Librarians Aren’t” and “Librarians Are Worth Your Money”.
• Gaelic has been made an official language of the EU, but which Gaelic? Irish and Scottish Gaelic are different languages. . . .
• The Library Song!!!!
  

  There’s a place for you and a place for me,
  it’s the local public library.
  They have books and things that they lend for free
  It’s the latest, it’s the greatest, it’s the library.

  Also, Library Science Jeopardy!

  via Google Directory::Librariana

• “I am the very model of computerized librarian“
  

  I navigate the Internet with speed and perspicacity;
  Evaluate each website for its content and veracity:
  In fact, in finding information, most utilitarian,
  I am the very model of computerized librarian.

  via Caveat Lector.

• Maybe someone should take a few of these or these to show some of those furry fuckers on the Diag. . . .

No wonder the Pakistan government can’t catch Osama bin Laden. It is too busy harassing, detaining—and now kidnapping—a gang-rape victim for daring to protest and for planning a visit to the United States.

—Nicholas D. Kristof, Raped, Kidnapped and Silenced. See also related editorial, “With Friends Like This…“.

update 6/19/05: Kristof reports in A Free Woman that Mukhtaran is out of jail, though they took her passport, so she still isn’t able to leave the country. And Gen. Musharraf is still lying about the whole thing.

Justice William W. Bedsworth of the California Fourth District Court of Appeal just has to wonder,

Just how did we get this far outside the mainstream of human endeavor? How does something as unparalleled in planetary history as an allegation of HOMOSEXUAL INTERSPECIES GORILLA PIMPING come about?

via eb1kenobi.

No, it does not matter how far out of town or the country you’ve been, the book’s still late, and you will still be charged for it. If you knew you were going out of the country, you should’ve returned the book(s) before you left.

(And yes, you can mail them back if you realise you’ve still got them after you’ve left already.)

• From 90% Crud::”Personal information nerdvana: Information wants to be free, but now [at least on OS X,] it’s downright slutty—at least in the sense that it’s free and easy.
• via Mostly Muppet dot com, via Technorati, via Corpus Callosum:
  

  The Big Brass Alliance was formed in May 2005 as a collective of progressive bloggers who support After Downing Street, a coalition of veterans’ groups, peace groups, and political activist groups formed to urge that the U.S. Congress launch a formal investigation into whether President Bush has committed impeachable offenses in connection with the Iraq war.

• Mommy Needs Coffee presents a fun bedroom trick. via Jenett.
• If I were a Dead Russian Composer, I would be Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov.

  Considered the leader of the 19th Century Composer group “The Mighty Handful,” I am indeed the teacher among them. My orchestration skills are superbly colorful, and are explained in my book on the topic, but works like “Scheherezade” explain my mastery better.

  Who would you be? Dead Russian Composer Personality Test (warning: Angelfire site, popup ads). via I-forget-who.

• Murph has discovered the [b]est missing ‘l’ since I saw somebody assert that ‘Artificial insemination is pubicly accepted.’:
  

  City Council has offered only this single public hearing on the use of pubic properties. Now is the time to let Council know what you want for the Ann Arbor of the future.