Thanks to the charming and delightful Ursula for the pirate name quiz. Apparently, I should be called Dirty Jack Cash, though I can’t fathom why.

A collection of vintage posters advertising magicians.

In news that is shocking, shocking, I tell you, we find that teens who smoke tobacco are far more likely to smoke pot than teens who don’t. My favorite quote, from Joseph Califano, Jr. President of National Center on Addiction and Substance Abuse, Columbia University: "If kids are regularly smoking, you should be concerned they are smoking pot." I would have thought that if kids are regularly smoking, you should be concerned about that on its own merits.

In the nick of time, Operation Infinite Purity. I hadn’t realized whitehouse.org was still around, or I would have checked it out sooner. It seems to be from the same batch (or at least an indistinguishable batch) of jokers as Landover Baptist and the ever-so-slightly subtler Objective Ministries. These guys clearly have a lot of time on their hands.

Casting call for Mad Mad House. (Perhaps) interestingly, the copy of the casting call I first saw was looking for a Voodoo Priestess instead of a Priest, and a Naturist instead of the Trekker and Yogi Master. There’s a petition urging Sci Fi not to be so insensitive to pagans. Possibly in response, Sci Fi included that “important note” at the end of the casting call. In April, they thought they’d want a psychic.

An image of W, made of smaller images of an appropriate anatomical feature (hint: not “bush”).

This seems like exactly the sort of thing my co-blogger enjoys: Social Hygiene Posters. A memepool favorite is the one telling (some of) us not to worry.

According to a recent ruling, spyware is just fine. Despite performing no useful function for the user and making itself as difficult as the spyware companies can make it to remove from your machine once it’s there.

My inner child is 16. Sorry about the pop-up at Quizilla.

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I got to thinking about things (in part due to this article about how bad we are at predicting how we’ll feel about future events), and it eventually led me to the Cognitive Clearing House, via the Theorists Online page. One of these days, I’ll have to read Hofstadter’s Fluid Concepts &c.