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Sight: The Two Towers, The Punch

Sound: best of Willie Nelson, best of Bond Films

Touch: Mark of Kri, Roadside Rescue

Taste: Mountain Dew

Smell: smells like Back to Work

Virtual: Fark, TMOL

Book List 2002

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Live From New York, Tom Shales and James Andrew Miller

Batman: Bruce Wayne Fugitive, Greg Rucka and Ed Bruebaker

Long Bomb: How the XFL Became TV's Biggest Fiasco, Brett Forrest

JLA: Tower of Babel, Mark Waid et al

The Archer's Tale, Bernard Cornwell

Moby-Dick, Herman Melville

Narcissus in Chains, Laurell K. Hamilton

A Cook's Tour: Global Adventures in Extreme Cuisines, Anthony Bourdain

** A Swiftly Tilting Planet, Madeleine L'Engle

** A Wind in the Door, Madeleine L'Engle

** A Wrinkle in Time, Madeleine L'Engle

The Leper of Saint Giles: The Fifth Chronicle of Brother Cadfael, Ellis Peters

Pyramids, Terry Pratchett

** Halloween, Curtis Richards

Gone Bamboo, Anthony Bourdain

** Animal Farm, George Orwell

Did Adam and Eve Have Navels?: Debunking Pseudoscience, Martin Gardner

Bone in the Throat, Anthony Bourdain

Coraline, Neil Gaiman

Non Campus Mentis: World History According to College Students, Anders Henriksson

What Einstein Told His Cook: Kitchen Science Explained, Robert L. Wolke

Would You Rather?, Justin Heimberg, David Gomberg

The Descent, Jeff Long

St. Peter's Fair: The Fourth Chronicle of Brother Cadfael, Ellis Peters

Wyrd Sisters, Terry Pratchett

** The Hobbit, J.R.R. Tolkien

American Gods, Neil Gaiman

The Return of the King, J. R. R. Tolkien

Monk's Hood: The Third Chronicle of Brother Cadfael, Ellis Peters

A Kiss of Shadows, Laurell K. Hamilton

Best of H.P. Lovecraft : Bloodcurdling Tales of Horror and the Macabre, H.P. Lovecraft

Stupid White Men ...and Other Sorry Excuses for the State of the Nation!, Michael Moore

Detachment Bravo, Richard Marcinko

Futureland: Nine Stories of an Imminent World, Walter Mosley

Eric, Terry Pratchett

The Two Towers, J.R.R. Tolkein

The Bear and the Dragon, Tom Clancy

Fast Food Nation, Eric Schlosser
** -- previously read

Book List 2001

Fark Photoshop Contest: New 37cent Stamp Design
posted by dwinn at 5:01 PM

A while ago I'd wondered why every gas station you'd see was trying to get you to buy mulch. I discovered that many kinds of mulch are full of synthetic material which is actually made by the big oil companies -- thus mulch is sold at gas stations.

Second questions -- what's with the different colors of mulch? Well, it's more than how aesthetically pleasing it looks -- the color of the mulch can influence the growth of the plants around it. Check out:

http://www.florence.ars.usda.gov/kidsonly/middle/mulch4.html
posted by dwinn at 3:22 PM

March's Assclown of the Month!
posted by dwinn at 3:05 PM

We rented Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back last night, so ever since I've been saying "YOU are the ones that lick balls!" at random intervals.
posted by dwinn at 2:14 PM

More basketball this weekend. Duke lost, proving the time-tested law that Duke Sux.

Starbucks is actually suing a web page for "illegally linking to their site". Well allow me to be Johnny Lawbreaker: Starbucks Sux.
posted by dwinn at 2:33 PM

Hey, it's almost Easter time, so here's a few pertinent studies about Marshmallow Peeps from Emory University:

The problems involved in Peep Surgery are particularly challenging.

This study concerning Peeps and the effects of Smoking and Alcohol has mixed results.
posted by dwinn at 4:14 PM

I watched a lot of basketball this weekend -- probably in total over 24 hours worth -- with my homie Dann. Each year I do three brackets -- a conservative choice, my regular picks, and some crazy-upsets. I'm doing OK -- the crazy upsets is toast, but the other two are fine, and all of my final four picks are still left on the conservative side.

Julie was good to me this weekend. Friday she bought me a pop-up map of Las Vegas that she saw at the bookstore, and Sunday, when I got home from work, I found a big old new sofa pillow on "my" sofa (to replace the mishmash of old frumpy pillows I had been using). We also did a little cleaning (it being almost Spring and all) -- well, I did a lot less cleaning than Julie, but I'm guessing that's not a surprise.

We saw Resident Evil on Saturday night, and it was fun, though I guess I would have liked to have seen more more blowing-up of zombies and more of the zombies tearing up humans. Zombies are cool -- and by cool, I mean totally sweet.
posted by dwinn at 1:35 PM

This is one of the better times of the year, as March Madness is upon us, and I'm making sure all my brackets are filled for the various contests online. I was able to secure the next few days off to watch what is arguable the best two days of pure sport -- the opening round of the NCAA Men's College Basketball Tournament.

The games will start at noon tomorrow and end sometime after midnight -- there's sixteen of them in one day -- with the same thing all over again Friday, then more rounds over the weekend. And next weekend. And the weekend after that.

I think this article sums up everything about tomorrow: The True Essence of March Madness
posted by dwinn at 6:10 PM

Here are some classics:

I Gave My Cat an Enema: Poor Fred.

Cliff Yablonski Hates You: A simple premise -- send in a picture and it gets ridiculed. This has been entetaining me all week.

And here's a new one:

Lewis Black talks about Video Games
posted by dwinn at 2:47 PM

It's a bit of a sad state of affairs when you're trying to think of content for this space. I lead a pretty sedate lifestyle, one that doesn't lend itself to a lot of bombast or rumination on the topics of the day. For example, this weekend was pretty lazy -- the most we did was go to my folks' for my brother's birthday. No explosions, juntas, or radioactive monsters encountered.
posted by dwinn at 3:53 PM

Star Wars and Unicorns
posted by dwinn at 3:39 PM