In an effort to get me to post more, and because I recently passed 2500 pictures taken on my camera, I'll be doing a couple things. First, I'll start sorting through the reams of unsorted pictures and try to make some sense of them, and post the decent ones here. Second, I'll be doing a link digest of the stories I come across on a daily basis, similar to zarq's pre-baby-stress posts or One Good Move's daily Links With Your Coffee. This will replace my current practice of spamming IMing random people on my list who might find whatever link interesting. You're welcome, you-know-who-you-are. It'll also include the entries I post in the odd community, which will be mostly randompictures, useless_facts, and politicartoons, and marked as such. Third is like the second, and will be the odd video and song I find worthy under a cut at the end of each digest. This will also replace my randomly updated feature, Song Of The Day Week Moment.


So with that said, here goes:

- Mehdi Kazemi, an Iranian teen, goes to the UK to study English. Back home, his boyfriend is interrogated and executed for sodomy, but reveals Kazemi's name to the authorities. Kazemi then applies for asylum. The British court denies his application, even though he will also be executed if he returns to Iran. He then flees to Holland, which has special laws about gay Iranian refugees. He's currently in Dutch court to see if they will deport him back to Britain or not.

- Plastic bags not really a big threat to the environment, due to a misinterpretation of a 20-year old report.

- Common questions about crows.

- Some nifty around-the-house doodads.

- Too Much Coffee Man presents How To Be Happy. The link goes to the beginning of a surreal and hilarious story arc.

- Herd of elephants rescue a captured herd of antelopes.

- useless_facts: Rush Limbaugh.

- MP3: Cake covers Mahna Mahna.

- MP3: Arlo Guthrie sings I'm Changing My Name To Chrystler.



Videos and pictures:

- The Ford Focus Orchestra:




- Night On Catherine

- randompictures: Bacon salt</a>. Eaugh.

- The Idiots Of Garry's Mod, by the same people who did Half-Life: Full Life Consequences. You can skip the first 40 seconds of the intro. Note that some bits are slightly NSFW:




- Alton Brown promotes some GE products.

- randompictures: Sean Connery, then and now.


Christmas of '06, somewhere in Seattle:











Across the street from my apartment.





Now with CHARACTERS, and PLOT.





Step on spidah!