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May. 25th, 2003 11:30 amI have been totally lame about blogging, and I could chalk it up to busyness, but partly it's also 'cause I discovered the dreaming and reading and movie blogs weren't archiving ... and not like my prose is so deathless, but I thought when I posted I was creating this record, and I *wasn't*, and that was sufficiently dispiriting that it kinda put me off blogging.
But I'm kinda over that now.
So: four cool places to go
www.belief.net offers Belief-O-Matic, a 20-question quiz that tells you how your personal spiritual beliefs match up with various belief systems. It's full of surprises: I came out as 100% Neo-Pagan, while CGU is 100% Mainline Liberal Prostestant. What's funny is, before we took the test I think we would've agreed that I'm pretty close to Mainline Liberal Protestant, and he's pretty close to Neo-Pagan. Apparently we had it backward. I got this from an e-mail list dedicated to my favorite romance author, Jennifer Crusie.
www.politicalcompass.org eschews the one-dimensional line from Left to Right in favor of a two-dimensional grid that measures economic politics on one axis and social politics on the other. Are you Gandhi, Stalin, or Margaret Thatcher? This one also came off the Jennifer Crusie list.
www.rathergood.com is totally insane. It's the site of some (British?) guy who does these videos in photoshop or something. The best ones are all the kitten videos -- he has these cats playing instruments and singing (the singing is wonderful and terrifying -- he puts these human mouths [with atrocious dentistry] on top of little kitten mouths). Bizarre, but very very funny. DW and AG each independently sent this to me.
www.ssa.gov/OACT/babynames/ is a list of the most popular baby names in America, by year. The fun part is it's from the Social Security Administration -- because think about it, of course they have this data, they have the names people submit when they sign people up for social security numbers. So anyhow, they've made it available, sorted along a number of parameters (by year, by state, etc.). It's fun to do thing like see how the top 10 names have changed over time, or type in random names and see how popular they are. Synchronicity strikes again -- within a month I learned about this from both my friend KRR and the Jennifer Crusie list.
I'm hoping these make up for my month-long hiatus, and I will try to be a more faithful blog correspondent. (And I haven't stopped reading or watching movies, either, so I'll try to update those pages, as soon as I can get the archive thing straightened out.)(And T. sent me some info about connecting blogs and livejournals and having comments and things like that, so there may be some changes around here.)
But I'm kinda over that now.
So: four cool places to go
www.belief.net offers Belief-O-Matic, a 20-question quiz that tells you how your personal spiritual beliefs match up with various belief systems. It's full of surprises: I came out as 100% Neo-Pagan, while CGU is 100% Mainline Liberal Prostestant. What's funny is, before we took the test I think we would've agreed that I'm pretty close to Mainline Liberal Protestant, and he's pretty close to Neo-Pagan. Apparently we had it backward. I got this from an e-mail list dedicated to my favorite romance author, Jennifer Crusie.
www.politicalcompass.org eschews the one-dimensional line from Left to Right in favor of a two-dimensional grid that measures economic politics on one axis and social politics on the other. Are you Gandhi, Stalin, or Margaret Thatcher? This one also came off the Jennifer Crusie list.
www.rathergood.com is totally insane. It's the site of some (British?) guy who does these videos in photoshop or something. The best ones are all the kitten videos -- he has these cats playing instruments and singing (the singing is wonderful and terrifying -- he puts these human mouths [with atrocious dentistry] on top of little kitten mouths). Bizarre, but very very funny. DW and AG each independently sent this to me.
www.ssa.gov/OACT/babynames/ is a list of the most popular baby names in America, by year. The fun part is it's from the Social Security Administration -- because think about it, of course they have this data, they have the names people submit when they sign people up for social security numbers. So anyhow, they've made it available, sorted along a number of parameters (by year, by state, etc.). It's fun to do thing like see how the top 10 names have changed over time, or type in random names and see how popular they are. Synchronicity strikes again -- within a month I learned about this from both my friend KRR and the Jennifer Crusie list.
I'm hoping these make up for my month-long hiatus, and I will try to be a more faithful blog correspondent. (And I haven't stopped reading or watching movies, either, so I'll try to update those pages, as soon as I can get the archive thing straightened out.)(And T. sent me some info about connecting blogs and livejournals and having comments and things like that, so there may be some changes around here.)