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From an article lampooning idiots who fear Harry Potter:

[T]here is a section of the Bible that very clearly tells readers not to shape-change. … So if while your child is reading Harry Potter they are suddenly replaced by a werewolf dressed in your child’s clothes, you’re right to be upset.

There’s plenty more hilarity in the article, including the fact that since Hitler liked lightning bolts, lightning is evil. Like the fru-its of the devil.

I don’t understand things like DragonCon – how do geeks that like comic books, RPGs and dressing up like Orcs get non-hideous women to get nekkid for them? I don’t understand. There is powerful magic there.

I love living in a town where I get to wait three extra days to watch the new Enterprise. I really do. Love it.

They look like they’re moving, but they’re not. Amuse your friends! Frighten your cat!

Couple Accused of Keeping Twins, 5, Caged
These children, five years old, could not speak nor use a toilet. Child Welfare workers had visited the house in the past and determined there were no problems in the house. They were very diligent, I’m sure.

Entelein a bizarre post about encountering a convertible auto with a webcam above the mirror. Ya gotta wonder what this guy needs a webcam in his car for.

THIS IS TRULY A CLASIC MONG ONLIEN MACHIEN TRANSLATION SYSTAMS!!!!1! OMG WTF THIS AOL TRANSLA2R IS 3VAN MORE FUN THAN DA JIEV TRANSLA2R OR DA VALEY GIRL TRANSLA2R FROM PREVIOUS YAARS!111 OMG U JUST HAEV 2 LOV3 THIS KIND OF STUF DONT U???!??! WTF LOL DONT U?!??!!??? OMG LOL

The above passage is what The AOLer Translator made out of this:
This is truly a classic among online machine translation systems. This AOL Translator is even more fun than the jive translator or the Valley Girl translator from previous years. You just have to love this kind of stuff, don’t you? Don’t you?

Star Wars tattoos are really cool. Some of the backpieces on this page look like they took many years to finish and lots of pain…

Underworld userpics for you Livejournal users:

The Friday Five is all about Back to School.

1. Are you going to school this year? Yep.
2. If yes, where are you going (high school, college, etc)? If no, when did you graduate? I graduated High School in 1988, but I’m a junior in college now. Sad, eh?
3. What are/were your favorite school subjects? Math, sciences.
4. What are/were your least favorite subjects? Anything liberal arts. This semester, I’m thinking “ethics” is gonna suck ass.
5. Have you ever had a favorite teacher? Why was he/she a favorite? There was a teacher in high school that let me get away with murder, so that was cool. But, my favorite would have been Mr. H (long German name escapes me) from 7th and 8th grade. He’s my favorite because he gave me high-energy electrical things to play with. How many 13 year olds get to build a Jacob’s Ladder?

According to Philadelphia Inquirer, Disney is planning to kill off their traditional animation and transition to a CG-only shop. Some folks are decrying this as the end of an entire artform. Michael Eisner has declared that 2-d is dead, so that’s a pretty good indication of the direction Disney will take.

Considering that the only big money-makers for the house of mouse in the past decade have been from Pixar (all computer-generated), it’s understandable that Disney sees the winds changing. Of course, the fact that the studio lost around a hundred million bucks on Treasure Planet may have been the final nail in the traditional 2-D coffin.

This is something I didn’t know existed before. You can view the latest posts to all of LiveJournal in one place. Two things struck me: I know a lot of the old hands, and they seem to post an awful lot, but none of them were shown when I glanced at the feed; second, there’s a lot of Russian folks on LJ.

Oh, and there is an RSS version as well. Gotta love RSS…

How non-geeks perceive the internet…
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For you Livejournal users, I knocked out some userpics today.

The LJ Times – Randomly created newspaper based on AP photos and LJ entries.

the friday five

# When was the last time you laughed? A few minutes ago – Alex is a nut.
# Who was the last person you had an argument with? no comment
# Who was the last person you emailed? Hmmm… probably Angie
# When was the last time you bathed? This morning.
# What was the last thing you ate? Honey BBQ rib tips from Applebee’s…yummy…

Thai ban ‘Big Flabby Buttocks’ and “One Woman, Two Men”, because they are afraid the current pop songs (only available in Thai) could encourage promiscuity or marital infidelity.

Gee, don’t you think the hundreds of brothels and child prostitute rings are more of a moral problem in Thailand? Just thinking.

Twister Duvet Cover available soon in the UK. It’s only available in Double Bed size, so it’s perfect for your next dorm party but not appropriate for groups of more than four in one bed. Make your own joke.

The Gender Genie claims to be able to identify the gender of an author with 80% accuracy. Based on 4 samples of my writing (both formal and informal pieces), I’d have to say it can identify my gender with 0% accuracy. I also pasted in a couple pieces from Buff’s Livejournal, and it got them wrong too. If it can’t even tell the bombastic prose of the self-proclaimed Thunder God is male, I doubt its accuracy in any situation.

My favorite quote from a National Post story on Islamic headgear:

In 1981, Abol-Hassan Bani-Sadr, the first president of the Islamic Republic, announced that “scientific research had shown that women’s hair emitted rays that drove men insane.”