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Life, the universe, pies, hot-pink bunnies, world domination, and everything
Forty years ago this month, Apollo 11 astronauts landed on Earth’s moon. In commemoration of the historic anniversary, MuseBlog dedicates the July random threads to moons and moonlets everywhere. After all, the word “month” comes from “moon.” What could be more apt? Read more »
The Woven Beyond takes a clockwise turn of 90 degrees as it winds up the month with Part 3 of the Random Thread. Read more »
This madness most exquisitely lexical leads us dizzied and dazzled into Part 2 of the June Random Thread, where over and under the warp of being we weave the weft of words. Read more »
The title of the June Random Thread (from the Greek words logos, “word,” and mania, “madness,” used as a suffix meaning “an infatuation with or passion for something”) celebrates words and language in all their giddy vertiginous kaleidoscopic splendiferous wonderfulness. Read more »
The May Random Thread continues to celebrate past predictions for the future by being as random as you please. Read more »
A round of Muse Academy’s uniquely zany card game is in progress and desperately needs new players. It’s easy to learn but extremely challenging (sometimes dangerously so). Please stop by the Muse Academy Student Lounge and give it a try!
Date: May 3, 2009
Categories: Fan Page / MuseBlog business, Muse Academy, Random craziness
In 1958 when Ward Kimball produced “Magic Highway, U.S.A.” for Disneyland, the vision of the future looked a lot like…1958. Aesthetically speaking, that is. Much of the technology still waits to be invented. This month’s Random threads celebrate how imaginations of the past portrayed the future, but in the present, of course, you may be as random as you like.
For the curious, an 8:47-minute excerpt of “Magic Highway, U.S.A.” may be found on YouTube:
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Welcome home, MuseBloggers! The April Random thread awaits your posts.
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Date: April 19, 2009
Categories: At the Top of the Blog, Nonrandom Craziness, Random craziness, The Musiverse
A perennially popular series of threads in which MBers vent their frustrations and display their creativity by abusing the blog’s favorite scapegoat, 
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Continued from Dissing Mr. Joe, Part 3.
No time to make this pretty right now — suffice it to say that MuseBlog is back in business! Welcome, Studgers, um, we mean Musers!
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ADVENTURES IN THE MUSIVERSE
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World of Piecraft, Part 4 https://musefanpage.com/blog/?p=1644
Ble! Newluj!-No Fulst, Part 2 https://musefanpage.com/blog/?p=1577
Quotations, 2009 https://musefanpage.com/blog/?p=1633
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Computer and Video Games, v. 2.0 https://musefanpage.com/blog/?p=1508
Books and Reading, 2009, Part 1 https://musefanpage.com/blog/?p=1597
Music, v. 2009 https://musefanpage.com/blog/?p=1598
Song Lyrics https://musefanpage.com/blog/?p=905
Visual Arts https://musefanpage.com/blog/?p=1574
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HG2MB v.2008.1
Date: April 2, 2009
Categories: At the Top of the Blog, Fan Page / MuseBlog business, Random craziness
To relieve the congestion on the Random thread.
For those just tuning in, Cleverbot is an upgrade of Jabberwacky, described on Wikipedia as “a chatterbot created by British programmer Rollo Carpenter. Its stated aim is to “simulate natural human chat in an interesting, entertaining and humorous manner”. It is an early attempt at creating an artificial intelligence through human interaction.” It can be found, cleverly enough, at cleverbot.com. More information available on Wikipedia under the topic “Jabberwacky.”
Second verse, same as the first: The March Random Thread celebrates our own invention, the International Month of Anachronism Detection and Scrupulous Attention to Detail. As always, of course, you’re free to talk about anything you like.
Continued from Part One.
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Part 2 of the monthly Random Thread continues our celebration of the flamablamablous wondrousness of the universe with this exclusive preview of a recent, somewhat disturbing discovery in the fossil record.
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One a year seems to be enough for our Jokes & Riddles threads. We’re not very funny people, it seems.
This month’s Random Thread commemorates the flamablamablous wondrousness of the universe (though, of course, you’re free to use it to talk about anything you like).
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For communicating in other languages and in variants of this one.
Continued from version 2008.1.
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Enter the circle of emoticons and follow the path of randomness. The journey begins anew on our monthly Random Thread.
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The monthly Random Thread continues its smiley celebration (in the picture, anyway; the words you post no doubt will remain as random as ever). Emoticons pop up in the strangest places.
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An inexplicably popular MuseBlog perennial: Post under a false name, and try to guess who other posters are.
Continued from v. 2008.8.
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Our first Random Thread of 2009 kicks off our Year of Random Celebrations with a salute to that stalwart factotum, the emoticon. They signal our moods, speak for us when words don’t do, provide work for Smiley Gnomes, and illuminate stupid senseless stories that would otherwise be simply stupid senseless text stories.
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,,,by the collective wit, wisdom, and transcendent silliness that can be found on the monthly random thread.
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