According to the Which storybook character are you? quiz, I'm Harry Potter. Woooo! Now if only she'd hurry up with that next book! [via PCJM]

And if you're a quiz fan, the new-to-me blog clarablog had links to oodles of them recently, including what type of movie character would you be, what dictator are you, what lego character are you, and which Star Wars prequel character are you.

Or, Chris Carter was telling us that we've been bad little fans and won't be getting and Lone Gunmen in our movies.

Let me tell you something, Chris - I'm really sorry that your show's been getting awful ratings the past year. Honestly, your writing was floundering even before Duchovney left. But not-so-subtly telling your fans to get over it (and, yes, I'm also thinking of last week's episode here) is rude and self-defeating. Even if your scripts had remained as scintilating as ever, people don't watch television for the writing alone. There are other artistic media to which people turn when well-crafted writing is their only interest. In the performance arts, the quality with which your words are conveyed also wins and loses fans. Since this loyalty to the actors on your shows, rather than to your words alone, obviously hurts you, perhaps you ought to return to your auspicious career as a novelist.

Oh... right.... you didn't have one. Then perhaps you ought to be grateful that you had an incredibly popular television show which suceed despite doubts that a sci-fi show of its type could ever had broad popularity and which garnered a rabidly enthusiastic fan base and much critical praise. If it's taken you longer to see that the ride was over, your fans will accept that you were too close to it to notice, but turning on them will only bitter their memories.

A friend and I were listening to the audio CD that comes with the special edition DVD of Almost Famous, and after many times through the track "Hour of Need", we still can't figure out the repeated line which closes off each verse. We're torn between whether it says "Riding a horse drowned in the sea", or "Writhing and hoarse, drowned in the sea". Neither actually make that much sense as what he won't be able to escape his demons until he does. Anyone know? If you don't already have this DVD, I'd recommend you get it anyway, and the director's cut isvery good, and if you can figure out those lyrics for me, hey, that's a plus too!

For my latest Java game obsession,I am absolutely hooked on HangARoo. It's hangman, but with an obnoxious kangeroo whose life is at stake. Rather than just words, there are phrases, book and song titles, television characters, and other trivia stuff to guess. If you can guess ten phrases without hanging your roo, you win. I tend to hang my roo on the "Oscar Winner" category. [via #!/usr/bin/girl]

In probably the coolest on-line reference I've run across recently, Project Gutenberg has put on-line the full text of all State of the Union addresses including this year's address (note: huge text file, you can get the 3.2M zip file here instead). I haven't had a chance to look over the speeches yet, but I'm planning on saving the file so I can do so later.

More LEGO fun with this immense LEGO church. This amazing structure seats over 1000 minifigs. makes really nice use of clear panels and light, and is very details. I love the pipe organ. Be sure to take the entire photo tour. [via Whim&Vinegar]

While it doesn't offer much new to those who've been having the "what is science fiction" debate for years, this is nice little discussion of the question by a physicist and sci-fi writer who falls in the "hard science fiction" camp and asserts that there is science fiction with good science and good writing being produced, and closes with a list of authors he recommends. [via Arts & Letters Daily]

The 80's cult classic Real Genius is finally coming out on DVD this June. A great film about geeks in which intelligence is actually a positive, and some geeks are cute, funny, cool people. Just ignore the inexplicable scene with beauticians in bikinis.

The unintentional political commentary can be the most amusing. I had the TV on in the background last night, and was half listening to Ashleigh Bansfield interview an IDF captain when my attention was caught by the theme song to the Flintstones - playing on someone's cell phone. Once is an accident, but I couldn't help laughing when the caller rang back while the interview was still on the air.

And wasn't it sweet for someone to call into my local radio station to dedicate John Mellencamp's "Peaceful World" to Colin Powell?

Chemical company Dow announced today that it will be using using microbes to clean up contaminated groundwater, as an effective and cheaper way to meet its environmental obligations. While laws are clearly necessary to compell companies to clean up after themselves, by developing these cheaper methods, companies will choose to comply because the clean up will finally be less expensive than the fines for not doing so - their fine for not building a $100 million water treatment facility was only $200,000. [via Sigma Xi: Science in the News]

I can't resist a good web game and lately I've been playing The Rockstar Game. This isn't a Java or Flash video game, the goal here is to manage your money and your time (represented by points) between practicing your craft, writing songs, and going on tour until you become a rock star. And other people are trying to beat you on the charts at the same time. The twist that takes this beyond "Lemonade Stand" on the Apple IIe? You only get 7 points every three hours. It's long enough between increases that you can't spend all day sitting at the site waiting (good for us obsessive types). But when you wake up in the morning, you've accumulated enough overnight to go on a whirlwind tour, or a song writing spree. Not for everybody, but I'm having fun. [via Bad Hair Days]

A federal housing law mandating the eviction of families of which any member is arrested for drug or violent crimes is being applied to evict women after they report acts of domestic violence against themselves. Clearly, this is not the point of the law. Furthermore, it would seem that most any case in which a family member reported the crime in question would be cause to overturn the eviction. The article is unfortunately vague about whether eviction is required, or, as it is implied early in the article, an eviction hearing is required. If the later, one would hope that housing authorities would choose not to evict in this type of case. Sadly, it sounds as if they are evicting some of these women... though, again unfortunately, this article is woefully lacking in details as how frequently this law is being badly applied. [via News We Can Use]