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It's been making the rounds quickly, but if you haven't seen the Visual HTML Jokes pool over at flickr, it's worth a browse. Some are just puns, but others actually do a nice job illustrating what the tags do, like the header tag/skyline one. I could see a selection of these actually making for a nice presentation of html tags in a class....
If you are a fan of The Office (the American version) and you are a bit of a geek, you will probably love That's What She Said, a weekly weblog that calculates the litigation value of Michael Scott's misdeeds in that week's episode. [via ALOTTFMA] Their assessment is that the "Ben Franklin" episode is the most expensive recent episode, with so many horriifying examples I had forgot them all. The Office is possibly the funniest show on television today, in part because they manage to keep Michael likable even when he's absolutely awful, allowing them to pull humor from situations that, in cruder hands, would just be distasteful.
I browse the various Amazon.com sale pages occassionally, and I was looking at their DVD sales when I found their Girl Power DVD Sale (which hopefully will stay up for a little while so that link will work). I admit up front I have not seen the majority of these films but it seems that their criteria for "Girl Power" is fairly shakey and has little more to it than "has a female lead who is not 100% pathetic". Yes, some of these are good - I haven't seen Bend it Like Beckham but I have heard it is a good girl-centered story. The Secret of NIMH is a great movie, and I'm not sure I'd think to put iit in the "Girl Power" category, but it's not destructive and it celebrates intelligence, so I'll go along with that. But, Fever Pitch? Really? And, veering into the realm of films that I haven't seen, they can't do any better than Hello Kitty Becomes a Princess or a dozen different entries from the Strawberry Shortcake collection? Or a Bratz movie?!?!
It seems that Amazon has just decided to buy into the notion that there are "girl movies" and "boy movies" (with a few cross-over exceptions) and put together a "girl movie" sale under a slightly different name. Even if these films do have some positive gender role messages in them, wouldn't it then be preferable to get them into the movies boys are watching also?
I'm loving the little Venn diagram humor sketched on index cards and posted over at Indexed. While it isn't really a Venn diagram, I'm a big fan of the entry specifying the conjunctions of the various deadly sins into more complex flaws. You should definitely browse the whole site, though! [via Boing Boing]
A friend pointed out to me that if you are at all interested in knitting or crocheting you should wander by the Knit and Crochet Festival. I've never been, but looking at the schedule it looks like there's going to be not only vendors but a bunch of classes and also some open hang-out-and-knit/crochet spaces. I'm probably going to spend tonight curled up in my comfy chair with my piles of patterns around me planning out if there are any pending projects that I'd be interested in browsing for supplies for and then heading out there some time this weekend.