Blame Dorothy

In Which There are Things to Read

For Mom:

• Blueberry Buttons
• Posters for the New Toy Story movie
• 20 Years of Toy Story

For David:

• Books on boosting income
• Cool Music Scatterplot

In Which There's a Website Daddy Might Like

The Art of Adventure Photography by Bruce Percy: Lovely photography and he goes into details about shooting and composition.

In Which I Find Another Thing on the Internet

The website for the movie Creation, about Charles Darwin, is just so pretty.

In Which I Find Things on the Internet

In which I am way too easily amused

This site allows you to build your own Zelda screen. Cool, huh?

In Which It's Really Random

I can't manage to blog about my new cat, but I was moved to share this with everyone:

Via Curbly.

In Which I Am Not a Number

My Google Reader spit up a post on a SciFi blog indicating that episodes of The Prisoner can now be watched online at the AMC website.

(Did I get the reference right? Or am I confusing it with some other dimly remembered television show Daddy loved?)

In Which There are Pumpkins

Pumpkins for Obama! Courtesy of Yvette's Pumpkin Blog.

In Which I Find Cute Stuff on Etsy

File under "this makes me wish I was crafty." It's fast food that's made of felt. Now, I have been trying to cut down on how much fast food I eat - do you suppose having something like this perched on top of my TV set would help or hurt? How about felt cupcakes? Or felt pig-in-a-blanket?

In Which It's April Fool's Day

As part of April Fool's Day, Youtube played a trick where they linked everything on their homepage  - from "Crazy Chihuahua" to "Baby Face Plant" - to the video for Rick Astley's "Never Gonna Give You Up." And all over the internet, bloggers with too much time on their hands followed suit: promising Hillary Clinton's concession speech or Lindsey Lohan naked, but serving up an 80's pop star with a mean hip swivel.

The scary thing?

Nearly 38,000 comments. Most of them wanting to know what happened to the video of the bunny eating the banana.

(Even scarier? I loved that song. I played it over and over and over and over... I even had a little dance routine worked out to it.)

In Which I Wander the Internet

I discover...

Neil Gaiman tackling a grave question of the proper use of special effects:

Oddly, though, in the morning scene in the Inn in the Stardust film, Charlie Cox is wearing a CGI shirt, because there were concerns that his naked torso could bring down America.

Celebrities using their fame for good causes, as Kanye West and Jay-Z reminding the world of Prostate Cancer Awareness Month. Brad Pitt, meanwhile, has a suggestion for battling global warming, while Andre Agassi looks about three seconds from asking Bill Clinton "WTF?"

And while Alan Rickman can never truly replace Sean Bean as my favorite vaguely untrustworthy Englishman who's really sexy despite a persistent need to wash and brush his hair, I'd like to thank whoever first posted this MP3 of him reading Shakespeare.