RRR, v. 2007.4 (Humor/Fairytale/Fractured) – Part One

MBers have proposed that this new Round-Robin ‘Riting threat* thread be about humor, satire, and/or fractured fairytales. That’s fine with us. It’s your thread. Take it away, Musers!

NOTE: It doesn’t really get started until around Comment 60.

*It’s not really very threatening.

Questioning the ‘Net

Random Dark Cloud suggested this topic: “My world history teacher seems to hate the internet and most other technology. Could we have a thread on the reliability of Wikipedia, Google and other search engines?”

Do those who live by Wikipedia die by Wikipedia? How do you look, what do you find, how do you judge? Where do you go from there? A hitchhiker’s guide on how not to be roadkill on the information superhighway. * (But say it without links, please.)

*a term which, of course, Wikipedia describes as “now obsolete”

Kokopelli for President, v. 2007.1

The 2008 campaign kicks off with a couple of posters by Cat’s Meow. (Click below.) Continued.

(In case you have trouble reading the second one on your monitor, here’s what it says.)

1. Because everyone would get free pies.
2. Because everyone would have to be stick figures.
3. Because everyone would have to shave their head except for 6 black hairs.
4. Because there would be free pie throwing contests every day.
5. Because his head would look so cool on a coin.
6. Because he would give up all nuclear weaponry in favor of pies.
7. Because it would be funny to see who he’d choose as a first lady (Aeiou? Mimi? URANIA?)
8. Because he would make sure that music programs weren’t cut from schools.
9. Because he’s black, a cartoon character, and skinny. Minorities, people!
10. Because I said so.

Made by Cat’s Meow.

Muse Calendar

Korrora’s project, described as follows:

I’m starting a Muse Calender with all the things we celebrate on it. Things like pi day, towel day, famous peoples b-days… If people know when things are (towel day etc…) would it be possible to post the date (on this thread or other designated thread)?

We thought there was a calendar right here on the blog, but apparently K. has something else in mind. As requested, here’s a thread for it.

Remember Your Brain!

It’s International Brain Awareness Week! How shall we celebrate?

Details below the fold.

It’s International Brain Awareness Week! How shall we celebrate?

This press release arrived this morning in Robert’s e-mail. Bet you wondered where all those “official” theme weeks and months came from. Thought-provoking, isn’t it?

Greetings-
International Brain Awareness Week® is this week, March 12-18. Coordinated by the Dana Alliance for Brain Initiatives, it will be celebrated with public events in more than 69 countries.

Brain Awareness Week may be a useful framework for your upcoming stories on brain-related subjects – such as body clocks, hormones, infant development, memory, and more. It may also be an opportunity to profile neuroscientists who are science communicators. Members of the Dana Alliance for Brain Initiatives are just that; the Dana Alliance is a nonprofit organization of 260 leading neuroscientists committed to advancing public awareness of the brain. We would be happy to connect you with local experts.
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*Brain Awareness Week® is a federally registered mark of the Dana Alliance for Brain Initiatives. The Dana Alliance for Brain Initiatives is a nonprofit organization of 260 leading neuroscientists, including ten Nobel laureates, committed to advancing public awareness about the progress and benefits of brain research. It is supported by the Dana Foundation, a private philanthropic organization with particular interests in neuroscience, immunology, and arts education.

Ötzi’s Bunny Variations

You can’t improve on perfection, but you can try. Here are some images Ötzi created in a brief time out from her crushing homework load.

You can’t improve on perfection, but you can try. Here are some images Ötzi created in a brief time out from her crushing homework load.


Psychopath bunny.


Picasso bunny.


French bunny.


Punk bunny.

Post-Valentine’s Candy Sale

Rebecca Lasley didn’t finish this picture in time to post it for Valentine’s Day, but it’s too good to hold until next year. (Warning to those with dialup modems: it’s a big file and slow to load.)

Rebecca Lasley didn’t finish this picture in time to post it for Valentine’s Day, but it’s too good to hold until next year:

Bunnies Overrun the Nation’s Capital!

Blog administrator Rebecca Lasley has supplied a startling image of the Washington, D.C., Metro (subway system) in the aftermath of the Million Muser March:

What? You’ve never heard of the Million Muser March? Well, no, of course not: it hasn’t happened yet. But when it does, this is what the results will look like. Resistance is Museless!