I have loved the stars too fondly to be fearful of the night.

Hot damn, I love this game. Until I resume normal functioning, check out this amazing artist working with her medium of sand.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=518XP8prwZo&feature=player_embedded#t=513

Choir perform a capella version of Toto's 'Africa'

And while I was watching this video, I kept randomly tensing up different parts of my body. I am amazed. I can just picture the bigwigs at MGM finding these girls and giving them their fifteen minutes of fame because really, where could they go from here?

The Ross Sisters - singing, dancing contortionists from 1944.

Two gay penguins have been given a wedding ceremony as a reward for their exceptional parenting skills.

Cartoon of how the Harry Potter series was initially promoted to publishers

Thank you to whoever nominated my fanvid 'You Look So Good' for the awards! It was my first video and I'm so pleased that you liked it enough to put it up for nomination.

Kitten Loves Broccoli - awww, cute :-)

Dolphins Use Sponges To Catch Fish - first-recorded tool use by dolphin in the wild.

Befriend A Geek - think of geeks during this holiday season!

Urban Knitting: The World’s Most Inoffensive Graffiti - this strikes me like something from Stuff White People Like (the tagging, not the knitting) but I know I’ve got some stitchers on my flist so enjoy. The trees, in particular, look excellent.

There’s a website called ‘Rocket Italian’ that offers online lessons to people wishing to learn how to speak Italian. They send you the first few lessons for free so I’ve grabbed them and uploaded them to my Filefront account.

And for your reading pleasure, an article on ‘Praxis’ (online Transformative Works and Cultures journal) regarding "The epic love story of Sam and Dean: Supernatural, queer readings, and the romance of incestuous fan fiction” by Catherine Tosenberger. This is a great paper exploring the concept of queer as ‘Other’ and how it is normal in the context of Sam and Dean’s upbringing and adult relationships with each other, as well as linking to tropes found in Romanticism and Gothic literary. I found myself nodding along with the author and still have the tab open because of the handy list of works cited at the bottom.

10 Weird Gourmet Foods - not for the faint-hearted. I’ve never tried any of these dishes and I doubt I ever will. Not even for ... one MILLION dollars.

/Dr. Evil moment

45 Vintage ‘Space Age’ Illustrations - ‘Popular Mechanics’ magazine cover pages from the 1950’s. This is the 21st century; where the hell is my personal hovercraft? Image-heavy but probably has some great ideas for artists.

Stephen Colbert and Jon Stewart performing a sweet and funny duet.

A gift for people who like RPS.

Here’s the latest batch of add-ons I’ve downloaded for Firefox 3.0.4.

Aging Tabs 0.7.1 - makes unused tabs fade with age. This is a cute little extension.

Flagfox 3.3.4 - displays a country flag depicting the location of the current website's server and provides quick access to detailed location and webserver information. You can click on the flag and it will tell you if the site you’re on is secure, how many times you’ve been there and if you have any passwords attached to it.

Read It Later 0.9926 - allows you to save pages of interest to read later. It eliminates cluttering of bookmarks with sites that are merely of a one-time interest. THIS IS THE BEST THING EVER! No more having to deal with crazy bookmark folders and moving and deleting.

Zoom toolbar 0.8 - adds zoom buttons to the toolbar. I don’t know if my eyes are getting worse but I’ve had a lot of difficulty lately finding a font size that is appropriate to the sites I’ve been surfing to.

( Thoughts On SGA 5x15 and SPN 4x10 )

Votes have been tallied for the 2008 Snarry Art Games - congratulations to Team Dragon!

chaeche has once again created a fantastic tribute video of the entries. Check out the viewing options here.

::hugs my Snape/Harry friends::

How lucky are we to have such talent in our fandom? And we’re still kicking on even though canon is closed. The ship continues to sail!

Singer Makadem (from Barak Obama’s father’s homeland of Kenya) has composed a reggae song entitled ‘Obama Be Thy Name’

"All the voters in America
Barack Obama be thy name
Thy change shall come
Thy will be done
As it is America

...

Change in America
Is change in Africa, Australia, Asia, Europe, South America"

BONUS: Seattle band Fleet Foxes have been touted as having harmonies as good as, if not better than, The Beach Boys. Listen to White Winter Hymnal and see what you think.

The amazing tothem has translated Come Out Of The West into Hungarian for me. As well as that, she's created a matching icon and banner!

Thank you, tothem. I really appreciate the effort you've put in.

Yay stargate_search! Check out these stats:

* 636 watchers, 868 posts and 4,454 comments received
* 33 John Sheppard/Rodney McKay 'Grace Under Pressure' fics
* 111 John Sheppard/Rodney McKay 'Kid' fics
* 41 Jack O'Neill/Daniel Jackson & John Sheppard/Rodney McKay Crossover fics
* 11 Jack O'Neill/Daniel Jackson Roadtrip And Cabin fics
* 18 Jack O'Neill/Daniel Jackson Telepathy fics
* 33 Jack O'Neill/Daniel Jackson Stranded fics
* 50 Jack O'Neill/Daniel Jackson 'Origin' fics
* 73 Jack O'Neill/Daniel Jackson Aliens Made Them Do It fics
* 147 Jack O'Neill/Daniel Jackson AU fics
* links to other thematic lists in memories
* archives and tags and meta, oh my!

Yay green_grrl! Yay community!

Homer Simpson Tries To Vote For Obama - a clip from an upcoming ‘Treehouse Of Horror’ episode?

Star Trek IV Bloopers - unintentionally slashy.

Mythbusters Bloopers - even more unintentionally slashy.

M*A*S*H Bloopers - I love you, show!

Also, is anyone else having problems with XJournal? After the mess that happened yesterday with Russian hackers taking down some journals and communities (report here ) I decided to do a back-up but the program shuts down almost immediately after opening. I have the latest version too.

Soccer Mom has concealed-weapons permit revoked, now she wears her Glock in full view of the kids - um?

Department of Homeland Security is testing a type of body scanner that seeks out invisible clues that a person might be harbouring criminal intent - but what if you’re just having a bad day?

Father drops off his nine children under Nebraska’s new ‘Safe Haven’ law - I hope they’re getting the care they need :-(

Argentinean tourist accidently ends up in Sydney, Nova Scotia instead of Sydney, Australia - this is not the first time people have ended up in the wrong Sydney.

What’s scarier than a clown calendar? - a clown calendar where they’re all naked.

Best Science Images of 2008 - thank you, electron scanning microscopes!

A baby bear whose paws were scorched in a forest fire gets special boots - awww.

Starving baby gibbon latches onto toy camel - zoo workers are hoping it can be reunited with its parents.

AirTraffic Worldwide - 24 hours compressed into less than two minutes. Very cool although it looks like thousands of ants swarming.

Vogue India choose poor people to model expensive accessories - Tacky, tacky, tacky

Cat pic begging to be macro’d - if it hasn’t been already

Wassup Holmes? - Hip hop parody of The Hound of the Baskervilles

Unfortunate Graphics - what the hell is a gunt anyway?

Check out the open tabs - surely that couldn’t have slipped past a proof reader

’Sleepless In Seattle’ Factoid Refuted - the factoid? That forty-year-old single women are more likely to be killed by a terrorist than to marry

Totem Destroyer Game - easy and addictive! Blow up blocks to save the totem

( Vidding, BSG: Are You Going To Turn Into My New Show?, Linkage )