Cupcake Armageddon & such

A whizz-by of the "information" the net dragged onto my screen, sometime between the hours of 2030 to 0230 last night.

From the Australian Museum online, I learned about the Killer Rat-Kangaroo's tooth (how the second premolar is not shed like usual but instead swivels 90 degrees to buttress the Fang tooth) and how the Giant Panda grows a sixth digit from it's wrist to act as a second thumb.

Took a look at A Thought From My Head, and wrote something lame.

From the Free Dictionary (I recommend it. Well, I would, it's not my homepage for nothing) I read about and saw examples of Trompe l'oeil (pronounced: "Trum ploy" it is French for "Trick the Eye")

I dazzled my tastebuds with the literary offerings at cheesenet (the internet's cheese information resource since 1995, apparently)

Stopped by at some random blog: Eyre Affairs

And another blog: How We Met.blogspot.com the story of Matt and Rachel.

Gmail, to check my emails -4 mailing list type things from faceless corporations better than nothing but yay! no spam.

A few pages of Mike Didonato's at MikeDidonato.com
Of note, the MSPaint competitions including: robots in playgrounds, matador and angry purple hippos and cupcake armageddon! Go on, Google it - you know you want to.

From rinkworks.com/romantic I learned that the single most romantic thing in the universe can be calculated scientifically. It is, simply, a small red candle made out of chocolate and shaped like a teddy bear holding a heart with scribbles all over it that plays a tune when you wind it up. Given at sunset of course!

Sparklesparkle.net for some weird writings and poetry: Al the were-bunny, numb butt blues, ode to cheese, the generic poem, halitosis, deprivation, an impromptu poem, cows, My Darling (an intentionally bad poem), Runny Nose (a parody of Run, by Collective Soul)

TheKingofCake.blogspot.com

Young Ladies Christian Fellowship, I go here almost daily. www.ylcf.org

Ode to Cheese by Arkady Yanishevsky

News from Reuters.com
"Wear nice pants" - police tell women drinkers,
Musicians cash in on head-butt,
Oddly Enough news: Roast pig guest-stars on Bush visit to Germany,
Ripley to challenge China to "Believe It or Not",
It was a long and twisting sentence... Jim Guigli of California was proclaimed winner of the contest, which challenges entrants to submit their worst opening sentence of an imaginary novel,
Chicken lays mystery Allah egg,
Follow that cab... Two Albanian men carrying stolen computers and flat-screen televisions worth $13,000 flagged down a Berlin taxi to transport their loot home but were later arrested after the cab driver called the police.

MaverickPhilosopher.powerblogs.com for some really pedantic English.

Stuffed nautiloids at maxsroom.org/screenshot/

University of MariborFaculty of Education Department of English and American Studies: Welcome to the on-line materials for the first-year English literature course at the Faculty of Education, University of Maribor. Index of poems, figurative language and glossary of terms for starters.

Raspberryworld.com yet another random blog

Slate.com furnished my ever-benumbed brain with: The word we love to hate -Literally, Revenge of the language nerds -beleagured linguists find witty champions in Far From the Madding Gerund, Why Ronaldinho has no last name -how Brazilian soccer players get their names, Does the word cup have a lingua franca? -how to curse out a referee from another country, How to head-butt like a pro -does Zinedine Zidane know how to use his head? and, Pink void -the psychedelic legacy of Syd Barett

Tailrank.com

At Xtra.com I learned that too much water can be fatal, How to get over the winter blues, the six stages of drunkeness, living alone doubles heart disease risk and about some dolphins in a stream.

And thanks to the wonders of he electronic age I got to see for the first time that fateful head-butting incident -you know the one. At video.google.com