From Memepool, a bunch of stuff I want to look at later:

Beyond Nancy Drew

SFPL’s Lesbian Pulp Fiction Archive

and people who re-use books as journals. Can someone show me how to do this?

USA Today is carrying tips on how to not look so danged American when traveling abroad. Here’s a few tips from FP:

Don’t wear T-shirts with slogans or pop-culture icons on them, unless they’re Tintin.

Try wearing leather shoes!

Artificially stain your teeth, or wear amusing gag teeth.

Learn about geography and current events. Know the names of world leaders!

Not to be outdone, our other loyal reader pointed us at Something Awful, with special emphasis on Movie Prequels.

A loyal reader brought 1000 Ridiculous Tragedies to our attention. I can’t say I’m especially impressed with the web design, but some of the content (especially the Pie chart of empty supervillain threats) is pretty entertaining.

Since we’re getting so many hits from iPod users (sucks about those batteries, eh?), here‘s another cool iPod add-on. My favorite part of this short-range FM transmitter is that you can set it to any FM-band frequency you want. It advertises a range of 10-30 feet, which is just enough to screw with the heads of the drivers around you on your commute. Pick a popular station’s frequency, and briefly own those airwaves all the way home. I mean, don’t do that. I’m sure the FCC wouldn’t approve, and I would never advocate law-breaking. Not me. Nope.

We’d heard it from a number of cast members, and now we’ve heard it from one more: SMG says Buffy won’t be back after this season. She makes mention of a possible spin-off (Ripper, anyone?), but this does seem to be it for BtVS.

Also, it looks like Firefly will stay dead.

Coming soon to your inbox: “This must be handled in the utmost confidence. I have recently been given control of a certain asset, and need your assistance to get it out of the country. In return for the use of your account, you will retain 50% of the asset. Please forward your lead vault details.”

This also reminds me of the “Lost” posters I used to see at my old workplace. Once, somebody had mis-laid a forklift, but it was usually a 10-foot long crate weighing half a ton or so, containing some vital airplane part. “I know it was here someplace…”

My co-blogger showed these to me last night, and I’m surprised she didn’t put them up here. Killer parodies of the Ready.gov pages regarding nuclear, biological, chemical (also above), explosion, and radiation threats.
Update: as of 17 Nov 05, the idlewords site doesn’t seem to have any content older than August of 2003, and the posters are not available.

A big deal in Japan is now available in the US, called an “enzyme bath” – it seems to involve being buried, heated, and relaxed in gently fermenting rice bran and other enzymes. I wonder how much my mom would charge me to bury me up to my neck in the compost heap?

Apparently you can find out what D&D character you are through a short survey. A, uh, friend of mine tried it and said it was impressively accurate. I have no idea what he’s talking about. (yes, I know this is old news; I found it in the “One year ago” section of blogdex).