Weblog Wannabe

The Ass-o-tron gives a very interesting result when pointed at CNN website. ♥

SimilarMinds.com's Compatibility Test sounds interesting, but it requires at least two people. The results can show your friendship and/or relationship compatibility with whomever you choose to take the test with you. Hmm, I have two people in mind that I'd like to test :) Click here to find out how compatible we are. ♥

Roberto Baggio's Free Kick Game would've been more fun if Baggio didn't have to give any annoying comment on your every kick. For the unknowing, Baggio is a famous Italian football (soccer) player. Some people think he's cute *shrugs* ♥

I think I have blogged Cat Bathing as a Martial Art ages ago, but I just found the link again and I still found it amusing so I guess it's worth another blogging. Don't let you cat own j00! ♥

I was looking for a free weblogging tool that uses PHP4 and mySQL, which can be used to create more than one weblog (like Movable Type) and I came across Nucleus. It's perfect. Not as feature-rich as Movable Type, but it has what I need. Plus, you don't need to rebuild every time you make some changes. I've installed it on my other domain. It's working beautifully so far. ♥

I love eating gummi worms so I was really excited to find this Gummi Grab game. It's quite an addictive game, but of course, being a lousy gamer than I am, I only managed to get to level 8 with a measly score of 4065. Post your score! ♥

The stupid quiz of the day is Which Star Wars Episode II character are you? I am so cool I got Obi Wan Kenobi, the greatest Jedi Knight of all. Wooo! You must bow with my every word! Er, but those are Robbie Williams words. Oh nevermind... ♥

Speaking of being paranoid, hackers can turn your home computer into a bomb and blow your family to smithreens! Sigh. They *are* being paranoid, aren't they? No? ♥

Warning: Bras can seriously damage your (man's) health. Oh, for God's sake! The men could've bought some bras themselves and practice opening it in their spare time at home or something. ♥

This one is for Troy, without whom I wouldn't have any Bjork song in my CD collection (now I have one *grins*): vote for The Top 10 of your favourite Bjork songs for a chance to win some Bjork goodies. I didn't realise that I actually knew five Bjork songs until I saw the song list. ♥

I don't know how people could score thousands in It Takes Two. I could only score a measly 49. There must be some tricks I don't know about. If you ever find out, let me know :) ♥

I don't really know how Judge works, but it's just nice to see a Game&Watch emulator online. My brother and I used to own several Game&Watch handheld games when we were a kid. Among them are Parachute, Fire, and Donkey Kong. I kinda miss playing them. Did you own a Game&Watch when you were a kid? ♥

I haven't posted a stupid quiz for days, so here's one: What Kind Of Friend Are You? According to the quiz, I'm "The Supporter". I show the true meaning of the term "Friends Forever". That's why all of you should become my friends. Heh. Well, maybe not. Being my friend is not always fun. Just ask Rebecca or Troy :) ♥

Falling Coconuts Kill More People Than Shark Attacks, so when you go to the beach this summer, please avoid sleeping under a coconut tree at all risk because I want you to go back home in one piece! ♥

Have a website hosted by a free hosting service with forced banner or pop-up ads? Well, ghostbone.com has some methods to get rid of those annoying ads without having to pay a dime, but use it at your own risk! Wonder if any of those methods works at Blogspot ;) ♥

This window pong is quite interesting. And fun, too. The players and the ball are your browser windows. If you can't picture it in your head, go there already and see it for yourself! ♥

If you're not using HTML table anymore in your layout but kind of miss its intricacy, you can join The 2002 TableArt Competition to win a book on Flash MX. Ironically, you may not embed any image, let alone Flash in your table art. Hmmm. If you're any good at cross-stitching, I think you're going to be good at table art. The concept is quite similar. ♥

I don't know why, but for all it's worth, here's a link to guimp, the self-proclaimed world's smallest website where you can play what probably is the world's smallest pong game. It gave me a headache all right. ♥

Looking for a book to read this weekend? Go download "Manual", which is a collection of how-to by seventeen web writers. It's free, and you'll get to learn how to unsuccessfully woo your roommate's future husband and how to skin a cat, among others. ♥

Totally Amazing Quotes is a collection of bizarre, ironic, or utterly clueless random quotations. Some will make you laugh at their stupidity, some others will make you lose faith in humanity. ♥

Towel Day is a day to show you appreciation to the late Douglas Adams. On May 25, carry your towel with you throughout the day. Why a towel? Because "a towel is about the most massively useful thing an interstellar hitchiker can have". Enough said. ♥

Hublo is a really cool-looking and fun game, but I'm just not very good at it. My navigating skill sucks and my connection is too slow. I couldn't even pass Level A1. But I'm sure you can do much better than me. ♥

I'm not sure if the market for this PocketPC software, My Sexual Encounters 1.0, is very good, but hey, it made me laugh so it can't be a bad thing :) ♥

Oooh, I want this TV on a T-shirt for my 30th birthday next year! I can't help but wonder if those folks got their idea from watching too much Teletubbies. ♥

Quake buffs among you might be interested in the Augmented Reality Quake (ARQuake). I think it's kind of cool. It's definitely going to enhance your geek image. Heh. ♥

Here's an interesting article about cat talk. There's also a test there to find out how fluent you are in Cat. You have to tell which meow is expressing contentment and which is urgency. It's pretty easy, really. But apparently, for non-cat persons, they sound pretty much the same. ♥

This is what I offer for free - imagine the brilliantness of my paid designs!

(It was Rebecca's idea. I just had to post it. Hehe.) ♥

I'm happy to see that Gattaca is sitting at #2 on The Wired Sci-Fi Top 20. I'm not really a big fan of sci-fi movies, but I lurve Gattaca. Ethan Hawke, Jude Law, and Uma Thurman just can't go wrong. The story also hits close to home.

I've always wanted to go to space myself, but in Indonesia, you can't be a pilot, let alone a candidate for an astronout, if you are short-sighted. Talk about discrimination. But I want to be the first weblogger to blog from outerspace! *sniff* ♥

Uh, did you know that unprotected sex is anti-depressant for women? It's something in semen, apparently. Hmm. No wonder I'm so depressed. ♥

I wonder if TMMLPTEALPAITAFNFAL or "The Multi-Million Language Project To End All Language Projects And Isn't That A Fine Name For A Language" is real and not just some spoof. Any programming geek ever tried coding in this language? ♥

I just spent more time than I care to admit playing Bauns. It's just so hard to quit! I kept on telling myself that I was going to stop playing once I scored 5000 but I just kept on playing until I got bored. My final score was 15072. But I'm happy to report that I'm not even half as pathetic as the top scorer who didn't stop until he/she scored some 333454 points. Heh. ♥

Is it just me or are all the clickmazes after the first one impossible to solve? I'm getting really frustrated. Maybe I should just give it up. But giving up is way too easy. Argh! ♥

Check out the new CSS Colouring Book, tested only in IE5.5 and Opera 6. If anything looks funky in your browser, especially in IE6, please let me know. And spread the word! Let the backlashing continue!

(Some of you might know what I originally planned to do with the templates. Well, I changed my mind. Besides, spring is almost over.) ♥

Name That Porno. If they made a porno movie based on a real movie, what would the title be? It's mostly a word play, really. Of course it would help if you have a dirty mind ;) My mind is not dirty enough to come up with a title. ♥

Build your own little town by dragging and dropping the buildings and the streets into the blank space. It's fun for the easily amused. ♥

Here's another quiz from the Brunching Shuttlecocks: How Dumb Are We? I got six right, which means, "There is a sprinkling of intellect in there somewhere, I suggest pounding a large hammer against your skull to take care of it." I would've scored better had I considered myself dumber than I really am. That last question is a trick question! ♥

I just checked out Spin.com's The 50 Greatest Bands of All Time. I'm okay with the Beatles being on top of the list, but I'm not okay with the Ramones sitting at #2. I mean, the Ramones? And I think Pearl Jam and REM should rank better than that. ♥

Which Osbourne are you? I wanted so badly to be either Ozzy or Kelly so I tried a bunch of combinations of answers but I kept on getting either Melinda or Sharon. Boohoo. Yeah, I am that sad. ♥

EW.com counts down the greatest episodes in the nine-year run of the spooky, smart series in the All Time Best X-Files Episodes. I wonder if my favourite is among the top 10 episodes. Hmmm, let's see... Nope. I guess I don't have similar taste with the EW.com folks. ♥

Play Metapet, the world's first transgenic virtual pet game, which is dubbed by Yahoo! as "a curious blend of The Sims and Neopet". How could you resist it? ;) ♥

The X-Files Timeline has mega-spoilers about the finale episode of the series, "The Truth", broadcasted yesterday in the U.S. You know, just in case you missed it. I don't think I'd get to see it until at least next year so what the heck. I read it from beginning to end. Not that I'm a big fan of the X-Files. The series got really sucky after the third season. ♥

The Ultimate List of Uses for... has 218 uses for AOL CD, 144 uses for marmite (is marmite a cousin of marmalade and vegemite?), 59 uses for dead cat (gee, I didn't know there were so many things you can do with a dead cat), and 21 uses for paper clip. Should be enough to keep you amused on a Monday morning. ♥

American readers might want to check out the list of the 2002 Most Livable State. The ranking was based on how the state averaged in the 43 categories of positive and negative factors, including divorce rate and percent of days that are sunny. Find out how livable your state is. ♥

So, which Spider-Man character are you? I'm Peter Parker. Wooo! I'm the man, baby! I always knew I have superhero qualities in me. Now if only I could get as lucky as him in romance department... ♥

This one is for gamers: 10 things to spend your cash on instead of game systems. It lists ten things you can buy with $200 other than a next generation game console. There is one more extra cool thing you can do with $200 that's not listed there: sponsor my weblog for a couple of months ;)

Another game-related article from the same site that's worth checking out is Top 10 Reasons that Videogames Will Kill Your Love Life. Don't look at me. I didn't write the article :P ♥

Cypress Hill Game is a car race game, really, but you get to listen to a Cypress Hill song while playing. If rap is not your cup of tea, they've so kindly provided a button to turn the sound off. My connection was so slow that everytime my car hit something, I didn't get to see it until, like, 15 seconds after I heard the crashing sound. I managed to score 5229 anyway. ♥

ANTIWARGAME is a simulation game that doesn't live up to its name. You just can't win unless you start a war. How depressing is that? Anyway, while the game was loading (which took a long time since my connection was so slow), the anti-war protester switched the poster he carried from one that said "No War" to one that said "Get DSL". Heh. I would get DSL if I could. ♥

Hello. My name is Firda. I'm 29 years old and I still don't know what I want or what I'm going to do with my life. Any suggestion will be very much appreciated, but make sure it doesn't cost a lot of money because I'm really broke and I actually owe another weblogger $40. Thank you. ♥

I enjoyed playing yo-yo. I was even better at it than my brothers. I haven't owned one for ages, though. They don't seem to sell the cheap, wooden ones anymore. All that's available now is plastic ones that cost a fortune.

Anyway, just in case yo-yo is your thing, here's a site with a bunch of Yo-Yo Tricks. I really should start saving up to buy one of those plastic yo-yos so I could practice these tricks. ♥

Can you tell gang sign from sign language? I only got 4 out of 9 correct, which I think is not so bad considering I guessed on all the answers. ♥

Pissed off with someone? Send them this link. If you're at work, I suggest that you turn down the volume a bit because it's really loud. ♥

Do you like monkey? Of course you do. Well, you might want to check out pictures of me and my monkey in thirty-two locations. Not me me. I don't have a monkey. It's just the title. ♥

Zippo Tricks will show you the many ways to light a Zippo. Not sure if it's any use for non-smokers (which I hope most of you are because smoking kills -- it killed an uncle of mine), but it's still kind of fun to know. ♥

Thanks to Movable Type Support Forum and its wealth of scripting goodies, now you can read an excerpt from Once In A Blue Mood here. *points at the middle column* You know, just in case you didn't notice :) And now it's time to revamp the mood log's sidebar. Weee! Yeah, I am that bored. ♥

Ninjalings, find out your mission. My mission, should I choose to accept it, is: 'Anytime someone says something correct, make a ridiculous "Wild West Gunslinger" motion off your hip.' Hmmm. That's doable, I think. ♥

I wonder if these Stupid Shell Tricks are for real. They look real to me, though. But then again, what do I know about shell commands. Pretty amusing stuff nonetheless. ♥

L33tMail is the easiest way to send someone an email in l33t without having to encode everything yourself. Pretty obvious, huh? Anyway, I just think it's kind of cool. Kind of. ♥

Birds! is an oddly satisfying and strangely addicting game. Now if only my mouse didn't suck so much and my computer weren't so slow, I would've made it to the top scorer list. Oh well. I guess 13k is not so bad. The top score was 71k, though. Eeek! ♥

Instead of asking me "how are you?" and getting a sarcastic answer, now you can just go to once in a blue mood whenever you feel that urge to find out how I am and get just as depressed as me. Fun! ♥

To confirm my lack of self-esteem, I took the Barksdale Self-Esteem Evaluation No. 69 and scored 54. "SEI score of 75 or less is a serious handicap." Man, do I suck or what? ♥

The bibliophiles among you might be interested in the The Weblog BookWatch. What it does is basically going through the list of recently updated weblogs at Weblogs.com, looking for links to books at Amazon.com, and then list the 10 most frequently mentioned books and where they are mentioned. Most of the books seem to be non-fiction. Have people stopped reading fiction? ♥

I've no idea who came up with The Deacon Effect, but the experiment to prove that it is a valid method of getting women was hilarious. It's not only women who fall for jerks, ya know. I know some guys who prefer girls who treat them like dirt than nice girls like *ahem* me. ♥

I need a hug. Badly. Too bad it's not July yet. ♥

Well, the5k.org site has been re-launched for this year's competition. Let's see if I can be bothered making up something to submit this year. I do have an idea, though. Stupid idea, but hey, it's me we're talking about. What would you expect? Brilliant ideas? Hah! Sorry to disappoint you, but there is no place for brilliant ideas inside this head. ♥

Sunday Morning Haiku

It's only 8 days
To the day my bill is due
Still 40 bucks short.

Well, it used to be 50 bucks, but after I broke my piggy bank, I became only 25 bucks short, which was great. But then I ate out somewhere I'd never been before with my sister-in-law and she expected me to pay the bill, so I did, and it turned out to be really expensive (which made me 30 bucks short), and my mum asked me to drop by the pharmacy and buy her some diabetic tablets and I didn't have the heart to charge her because I knew she was broke, so now I'm 40 bucks short. Bummer. Are you sure you don't want to hire me to revamp your weblog site? I'll only charge you 40 bucks.

Anyway, I'm taking this weekend off blogging just so that I could work on some personal web projects. I am feeling kind of depressed because it's a weekend thing (weekenditis?), but I'm not feeling as depressed as I was last weekend so don't worry about me. That is, if you worry about me at all. See you all on Monday! ♥

The winner of Weblog Wannabe's 1st Weekly Weblog Giveaway Contest has been announced. There'll be another contest next week, so stay tuned! ♥

What's your super power? According to the silly quiz, my super power is, I can communicate with animals. Huh? Honestly, I wouldn't call it a superpower. I mean, only superheroes can have super powers and Doctor Dolittle is certainly not a superhero. Or is he? ♥

In Which I Wring Amusement from Telemarketers, but with the Added Challenge of Not Being Mean or Degrading in the Process is a pretty amusing read. It might give you some ideas on what to say the next time a telemarketer calls you. ♥

I N S A N I Q U A R I U M is a little fish-feeding game in Java. You feed the fish and the fish will give you money. It's basically a fun game, but I just don't know how to make it more exciting. There should be a bad monster in this game but I can't seem to make it show up. ♥

The Dialogue Project is a collection of conversations between parties, real and imagined, all over the world. If you tend to be able to remember interesting dialogues (I don't -- 'cept for ones I had with my mum) or like to write imagined ones (I do), you might want to join the project. ♥

KartOO is a meta search engine that draws a map of the web in Flash. It's quite interesting and different. And different is good. If you enter your weblog name into the search field, you'll get to see which sites are related to it. ♥

Win this weblog! Yes, it is a contest to win a brand new weblog, designed by yours truly. No, it's not a joke. Yes, I was *that* bored. ♥

The silly online quiz of the day is: which adjective describe you? I am, uh, "nice". I hate the word nice. It is such a meaningless word, especially when used to describe a person.

Some people have described me as sweet. I like sweet much better than nice, but the thing is, I'm not sure I'm a sweet person. I'm just too blunt to be sweet. I'm also too blunt to be nice. I think blunt is the best adjective one could use to describe me. ♥

Pump Dancing is a pretty addictive game. It is kind of like Dance Dance Revolution, only it's your fingers that do the dancing on your keyboard instead of your legs on the dance pad. 'Twas really fun. I scored 270 in this one. Not bad for a clumsy girl like me. ♥

Feel like playing a frustrating flash game? Go play CRAB-BALL. I scored, like, minus 2 or something. Well, actually, I didn't finish the game. I was so frustrated because I couldn't get the ball across so I just abandoned it. ♥

Typecasting: The Use (and Misuse) of Period Typography in Movies is an interesting article about the typographical blunders filmmakers made. It highlights some movies set in the past that use font types that are ahead of its time. ♥

Drugs and software are very much alike. Just check out the spooky similarity between drug dealers and software developers, and you will see. I don't really get the "Have important South-East Asian connections (to help move the stuff)" bit in terms of software developers. Is it something that I, as a Southeast Asian, should find offensive? ♥

Thursday Morning Haiku

I am not happy
I am just being happy
See the difference? Yes.

A guy who got me hooked on haiku ages ago once told me that if a line was lacking a syllable, just put a "yes" to the ending. That was the best haiku-writing tip I've ever got. I think it was also the only one. Anyway, I don't really know what to say here. I just thought I'd post a haiku since I haven't posted one for almost a week. The daily haiku is history now and has been replaced by the occasional haiku. I'm sorry.

I'm thinking of changing the concept of Quite Happy Dot Com (already!). The current concept doesn't seem to be very successful. Got any idea? ♥

When I went to Bali several lightyears ago, they served us steak on the airplane. Rare steak. When you cut the meat, blood would seep out from the cut. It was gross. That was the first and last time I had rare steak. If I had a picture of it, I'd submit it to the AIRLINEMEALS. They don't seem to have a picture of meal served on Garuda Indonesia Airlines. ♥

The easily amused among you might want to poke Homer Simpson, just for the hell of it. ♥

Ever wondered about what gender Winnie-the-Pooh is? Well, wonder no more. I know Winnie's gender. It's just that the name doesn't really fit the gender. And the Pooh was actually a swan, not a bear. Confused? ♥

Test Your Gaydar and find out how well-tuned it is. I scored 80%, which means my gaydar still needs a little fine tuning and that I should visit a coffee house. Hmm. I think I fit the stereotype of a lesbian, only I'm not. And you know what? I think it's kind of cool :) ♥

I think the Dictionary of Custom License Plate Terms can also serve as a dictionary of creative spelling. Might come in handy if you're a chatroom newbie. Can't remember the last time I joined an online chatroom. It must've been four or five years ago. Anyway, I don't know how 2LY could mean "truly". Where's the "r"? ♥

Troy's cat can get HBO. Poor kitty. ♥

How To Cut Down Your Online Bills When You're Living In Indonesia Where Phone Rate For Local Call Is Unreasonably High:

1. Sign up with a lousy ISP that disconnects you every 15 minutes but provides you with unlimited dial-up internet access for only $10/month.

2. Only get online between 11pm and 5am.

Those two steps are the key to my success in cutting my online bills down to 50% of the amount I had to pay last month. Still, I'm $50 short from getting all the bills paid. *sigh* It doesn't make me feel any less succesful, though :) ♥

Are you sure you don't want to hire me to develop a weblog for you or re-design your existing one? I'm good and quite affordable. Hell, I don't even set a price anymore. Just let me know how much you have in your budget and I'll come up with something. Yes, I am *that* desperate. I don't have enough money to pay this month's bills. If I didn't pay the bills, I wouldn't be online and blogging anymore next month :( ♥

Both the Summer and Winter Olympics are long gone, but there are always some Olympic Events To Hold Around Your Home. I think I'd do well in the Broomstick Javelin Toss event. ♥

Guinness World Records people ask, "How amazing?" I'd say that it was more gross than amazing. ♥

I've blogged On Being a Superhero at least a couple of times already and I'm blogging it again today. Why? Because it's one of my favourite sites and it makes me laugh, that's why. But please, don't hold it against me, 'kay? ;) ♥

Learn how to cheat at Solitaire and how to cheat at Minesweeper. It might make you look sad but hey, it's not like you're cheating on anyone else but yourself. To quote them, "Sometimes it's good to be bad." ♥

ClipIt! is a downloadable networked application that provides an ambient connection to other people's desktops by distributing the contents of each users clipboard. I have read the about page but I still can't stop wondering why anyone would want to use this tool. ♥

I remember taking this Intelligence Test ages ago in some other site but this one had a little twist in the results. It also tells you about your love life prospect! I scored 8 out of 11 which rates me as an Honor Student and means that my love life is going to bloom soon. Yeah, right. ♥

I read somewhere that happiness is a choice. You can choose between being happy and being miserable. Some people are actually happy being miserable. As for me, I dunno. I always look so goddamned cheerful. If you knew me offline, you wouldn't have guessed that I suffer from depression. It doesn't necessarily mean that I choose to be happy. I don't. Those who know me well would tell you that Gloomypants is my middle name. It's just the way I am.

Anyway, the reason for my absence was, I was tired of sounding and looking happy when I'm not, so I chose to be miserable. If not sleeping, I'd be crying. And boy, was that tiring. I cried so much last night, my face ached a lot that I thought it was going to break. It made me realise that being happy was a better choice for me because it is so much easier and a lot less painful.

So, I'm back now. And I brought something along with me: Quite Happy Dot Com. It's my first attempt at community weblog. Not sure if it's going to work but it's worth trying. Yeah, I know. It looks pretty much like a weblog for toddlers. I don't know what I was thinking when I designed it. It's very likely to change soon, though. Meanwhile, why don't you register and contribute something? It would make my day. ♥

Monday Morning Haiku

Where is the Firda?
She hasn't blogged since Friday.
Hope she is okay.

I spoke to her in the wee hours of Sunday morning before I went to sleep. Where are you deary? (this is rebecca by the way) ♥

Friday Morning Haiku

Painkiller is good
Five hundred milligrams and
I'm pain-free all night.

We went to a grocery store today to buy some stuff to sell in my mother's tiny shop. The store was packed with people.

"The month is still young," said my brother. "People still have plenty of money."

"I have no money any time of month," complained Mum sadly.

I gave my mum a back massage and said, "None of those people with money has someone to give them a back massage while they shop."

"Oooh, that feels so good," crooned Mum. Then she smiled at me and said, "Thank God I have you."

At times like that, I feel like my life actually has a purpose. In this case, the purpose was to give my mum the best back massage anyone could offer :) ♥

What band instrument are you? I'm a French horn. "Laid back, mellow, and sweet. You're a loyal friend who's always willing to help others." Um, okay. Not sure what that has to do with French horn but... whatever! ♥

Just wanted to remind you that Friday, May 3, is No Pants Day. You know what to do. Or rather, what not to do *wink, wink* ♥

Ants Revenge (or so I think the title of the game is) is a frustrating yet addictive game. Try to kill the other ants by bumping your ant's head to the other ant's behind or side, but not to its head. If you bump head to head, your ant is going to die and you'll lose points. The game is simple. It's the navigating that's frustrating. But I think it should be easy for true gamers. ♥

What on earth is a Domo-kun and why are they so popular? Domopers, which seem to be a hybrid of Domo-kun and developers, have some video clips with them singing some, uh, Domo-kunish songs. I think. I can't play .wmv files with my ancient version of Windows Media Player, so I really have no idea. You tell me. (Yea yea yea, I'm such a great weblogger. *grumbles*) ♥

Check out the winners of the I-Look-Like-My-Dog Contest. It made me wonder if they made themselves look like the dogs or they made the dogs look like them. I suspect it was the former. ♥

Is my comment form broken? ♥

It's official. I'm a haiku-murderer. The one and only in the worldwide web. I am so proud of myself! ♥

An actual Blogger error message:

Error 104:java.lang.OutOfMemoryError (server:disco)

That server sure knows how to have fun. ♥

I always wondered how antisocial I was, so I took the antisocial test and according to the results, I'm only a tiny bit antisocial. Hmm. Am I? ♥

My jaw aches so much, I can't open my mouth wide enough to eat without wincing in pain. Yet I have to eat so I force my mouth to open wide anyway. I have to take at least 5 minute break in between spoonfeds to prepare myself for the pain.

Right now I'm enjoying (or rather, trying to enjoy) some tape singkong (soft, fermented cassava) with a chunk of Kraft's cheddar cheese. No, it's not really what Indonesians have for dinner. I just feel like eating some weird stuff.

Anyway, after two days of getting a lot of lovely emails, my inbox today seems so empty. Well, it doesn't *seem* empty. It *is* empty. I know I haven't written back to any of you, guys. I just don't feel like it. I'll get back to you when I'm feeling better 'kay? ♥

Five Finger Fillet is a game that should not be played by anyone with a weak stomach. Why? Because in this game you have to cut someone's fingers off, that's why. I was so good at it, it scares me. My rating was, "the knife and you are one". Yikes! So much for being an anti-violence person. ♥

Remember MacGyver a.k.a. the you-can-get out-of-any-trouble-as-long-as-you-have-a-Swiss-army-knife-in-hand TV series? Well, you might want to check out MacGyverisms, which is a collection of all the tricks MacGyver used to get out of trouble, just for a laugh. I can't believe I actually found those tricks really smart back then. ♥

Tuesday Morning Haiku

I have a toothache
I only get toothaches when
I'm really depressed.

My brother's best friend from college used to have a girlfriend named Angel. He loved her so much that he had her name tattooed on his chest. After he broke up with Angel, he had the tattoo altered. What used to be "Angel" was now read "Ranger". Or so my brother told me. That story never fails to amuse me. Silly things people do when they're in and out of love :) ♥

StrangeReports.com is a site where you can create fake news report about overdue library books, toilet paper thief, portable toilet criminal, and more with anyone's name in it. This would be cool four years ago, but now I think it's kind of lame. Still you might want to give it a try anyway. ♥

Junkbot is a potentially addictive web game by the maker of Lego, in which you get to build bridges, stairs, walls and more to keep the Junkbot from getting caught by the guardbots. I couldn't play it because for some unknown reasons, Shockwave refused to run on my poor, old computer after crashing it a couple of times. Bummer. ♥

How to build an igloo. If I ever got to the North Pole, I'm going to build one of my own. I've always wondered about which country the North Pole belongs to. If the North Pole belongs to no country, then you shouldn't need a visa to go there, which makes it a perfect place for me to go to since most countries require you to have a boatload of money before they grant you a visa, and as you know, I'm forever broke. ♥

Evolution, alienation and gossip: the role of mobile telecommunications in the 21st century is an interesting yet amusing article. Did you know that gossip can stimulate production of endorphins, relieving stress and boosting the immune system? Wow. I really have to learn how to gossip from my mum. ♥

If you are a gamer, you might find amigameorlame entertaining, or at least making any sense. Yes, it's yet another amihotornot clone, in which you get to decide which one of two games is game or lame. I don't think I've ever heard of any of those games before. I'm so not a gamer. ♥