the geek in me

today i indulged my inner science geek and language geek. these textbook disclaimer stickers are pretty funny, and the other links on the page are cool, if you're pro-evolution, anti-creationist. hell, even if you don't know where you stand on the issue, go learn something. it made me happy. especially since i found it via another cool site that i came across while finding out what the ig-nobel-award-folks were up to and checking out their blog, mag, etc...
and for the word-freak in me, wordcount's part of a project that tracks the 86,800 commonest words and calculates how often we use each one. the "conspiracy" section of their site is fun, and if you "launch wordcount" you can try to find your own conspiracy sequence. or find out where your favourite words rank in usage. or whatever. i like it. i been playing with it like i been playing with the 20questions (previous entry) game...
and while playing, an older favourite is part of the pbs "keeping score" project, called "match the music" (you have to select the "primal moves" section of the 'multimedia presentation' on the page talking about tchaikovsky- pbs makes it too damn hard to find this lovely feature, and just searching www.pbs.org doesn't quite get you there without those details, although you may find other wonderful things along the way): there's a selection of relatively famous artwork and a selection of classical music, and you choose a piece to listen to while viewing the art of your choice- it's intriguing how different the same art can seem (whole new meanings reveal themselves) when you dramatically change the music you set it to...
alright. enough self-indulgent playsurfing i think.
time to get back to the wonderful world of revising my still-unpublished fiction...blahblahblah...

maybe more later since i'm waiting up for grims, who'll prob'ly be working until 4am (the things i do for sex). can't wait for him to get back! i feel like i might explode!
walk good. get some. i know i will...