A couple of years ago, I signed up for free blogs at BlogsUK, Blogdrive, LiveJournal, MySpace, Xanga, and a couple of others I’ve forgotten about. Some of those require you to join up in order to leave comments on other blogs, and a free page comes with membership. I wanted to get a URL for each in my name before someone else does. I was too late at MySpace, so I had to use therealmisscellania. They are also ads for my active blogs. Not a big deal, although I should update them more often. So when FaceBook became popular, I signed on to that, too. Everything was fine until a couple months ago, when FaceBook opened up to third-party applications. Since then, things have gotten crazy. Every day I have 50+ messages that someone or other left a message, wrote on my “wall”, threw a sheep at me, or bought me a virtual toy, etc etc etc. For every message, I have to open a new window, sign in (“remember me” never does), and follow more links to find out what its about. Mostly, they are just third-party apps. To see or return the favor, I would have to install the app on my FaceBook page. To do that, you must sign the terms of service, which grants the sponsor of the app (could be anyone) permission to monitor my FaceBook activities and install ads on my page. No, thanks. It’s working well for Facebook, but not for me. So if I haven’t returned your virtual hug, cake, or snowball, now you know why. I hope you understand.



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From the movie Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story. See the full (R-rated) trailer here.

Seven Strange Lucky Charms.

Writer and photographer Shreve Stockton took in a baby coyote when its parents were shot for killing sheep in Wyoming. She is documenting Charlie’s life with her and Eli the cat on the blog The Daily Coyote.  (Thanks, Bill!)

Optical Illusion: Pass the Lunch Box. Count how many times the lunch box is handed off. Yeah, I knew you weren’t really paying attention.

The 20 Most Intriguing Billionaire Heiresses.

Countertenor Nick Patera sings just like The Little Mermaid.

Consumerist has links to landlord-tenant laws in every state. This may be worth bookmarking in case you ever need it in the future.

WATER

(Thanks, Rich!)
One day, Gramma sent her grandson Johnny down to the water hole to get some water for cooking dinner. As he was dipping the bucket in, he saw two big eyes looking back at him. He dropped the bucket and hightailed it for Gramma’s kitchen.

“Well now, where’s my bucket and where’s my water?” Gramma asked him.

“I can’t get any water from that water hole, Gramma” exclaimed Johnny. “There’s a BIG ol’ alligator down there!”

“Now don’t you mind that ol’ alligator, Johnny. He’s been there for a few years now, and he’s never hurt no one. Why, he’s probably as scared of you as you are of him!”

“Well, Gramma,” replied Johnny, “if he’s as scared of me as I am of him, then that water ain’t fit to drink!”

Here Comes Another Bubble, a new video from The Richter Scales on the inflated value of Web 2.0. Its catchy, clever, and possibly a spot-on prediction for the internet.

Mark your calendar for the Geminid Metor Shower! From Thursday evening December 13th at about 10PM to dawn Friday, the 14th, enjoy the best meteor shower of the year.

The 20 Ugliest College Campuses in the USA.

A Guide to Evel Knievel’s Injuries.

Mass Attack! Use weights to balance the scales. Sounds really simple, but its not. This is an addictive game! (via GeekAlerts)

Skarabej is an “online museum of old family photographs” from Bosnia and Herzegovina, Serbia, the Czech Republic, and Croatia.  (via Metafilter)

Souvlaki Tetris is a game in Chinese, but man, once you figure out what they want, you can’t stop! (via b3ta)

Make your own Sierpinski triangles out of clay! You don’t have to be a mathematician to appreciate the beauty in this project. Instructions are at Evil Mad Scientist Laboratories.

WOOD SHOP

(via Phil’s Phun)
It was the first day of the school year and the shop teacher was surprised to see a rather "princess-like" young lady sitting in the front row of the classroom.

Her name was Judy and she was the only girl to sign up for the woodworking shop class that term. The shop teacher asked her if she was sure she was in the right class, and Judy assured him that she was.

The teacher then said, "This course may be a bit outof your league. Do you have any experience at all working with tools?"

"What exactly do you mean?" replied Judy.

"Well, what's the difference between a nail, a screw and a bolt?" theshop teacher asked.

Judy pondered the question for a moment, then replied, "Well, I can't rightly say as I know,
'cause I ain't never been 'bolted'

As Cute as It Gets (via Arbroath)

Thought for today: Blessed are those who can give without remembering and take without forgetting.

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