(via It’s Jim) U.S. Citizenship Test: Could You Pass?
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Pain Sponge and the Need Machines
(from the random thoughts on a Friday afternoon dept.) Another name for the band: Pain Sponge and the Need Machines (in honor of the Marc Maron Show)
Friday Cat Blogging (special Kerala edition)
What Classic Movie am I?
(via Peripetia) What Classic Movie Are You?personality tests by similarminds.com
Book Meme
(via Peripetia)
Review the following list of books. Boldface the books you’ve read, italicize those you might read, cross out the ones you won’t, put an asterisk beside the ones on your bookshelves, and place brackets around the ones you’ve never even heard of.
The Da Vinci Code (Dan Brown)
The Catcher in the Rye (J.D. Salinger)
* The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy (Douglas Adams)
The Great Gatsby (F. Scott Fitzgerald)
To Kill a Mockingbird (Harper Lee)
The Time Traveler’s Wife (Audrey Niffenegger)
* His Dark Materials (Philip Pullman)
Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince (J. K. Rowling)
The Life of Pi (Yann Martel)
* Animal Farm: A Fairy Story (George Orwell)
* Catch 22 (Joseph Heller)
* The Hobbit (J.R.R. Tolkien)
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time (Mark Haddon)
* Lord of the Flies (William Golding)
Pride and Prejudice (Jane Austen)
* 1984 (George Orwell)
Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban (J. K. Rowling)
* One Hundred Years of Solitude (Gabriel Garcia Marquez)
Memoirs of a Geisha (Arthur Golden)
[The Kite Runner (Khaled Hosseini)]
The Lovely Bones (Alice Sebold)
* Slaughterhouse Five (Kurt Vonnegut)
[The Secret History (Donna Tartt)]
Wuthering Heights (Emily Bronte)
* The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe (C.S. Lewis)
[Middlesex (Jeffrey Eugenides)]
[Cloud Atlas (David Mitchell)]
Jane Eyre (Charlotte Bronte)
[Atonement (Ian McEwan)]
[The Shadow of the Wind (Carlos Ruiz Zafon)]
The Old Man and the Sea (Ernest Hemingway)
* The Handmaid’s Tale (Margaret Atwood)
The Bell Jar (Sylvia Plath)
* Dune (Frank Herbert)
[Sula (Toni Morrison) ]
Cold Mountain (Charles Frazier)
The Alchemist (Paulo Coehlo)
[White Teeth (Zadie Smith)]
The House of Mirth (Edith Wharton)
High Mach
(via Peripetia) Take the Machiavelli personality test: Are you a cutthroat or a pussycat? Find out, if you dare. The Machiavelli personality test has a range of 0-100 Your Machiavelli score is: 64 You are a high Mach, you endorse Machiavelli’s opinions. Most people fall somewhere in the middle, but there’s a significant minority at … Continue reading “High Mach”
Crisco Johnny and the Calico Cats
(from the random thoughts on a Friday afternoon dept.) Anyone else think Crisco Johnny and the Calico Cats would be a great name for a band?
What European city do you belong in?
(via The Lippard Blog) You Belong in Amsterdam A little old fashioned, a little modern – you’re the best of both worlds. And so is Amsterdam. Whether you want to be a squatter graffiti artist or a great novelist, Amsterdam has all that you want in Europe (in one small city). What European City Do … Continue reading “What European city do you belong in?”
How Much of You Does Your Blog Own?
(via Pharyngula) 12.5 % My weblog owns 12.5 % of me. Does your weblog own you?
Not what I’d expect…
Your Ultimate Sci-Fi Profile II: which sci-fi crew would you best fit in? (pics) created with QuizFarm.com You scored as Deep Space Nine (Star Trek). You have entered the dark side of the Star Trek universe. The paradise of Earth is far from you and you must survive despite having enemies on all fronts. But … Continue reading “Not what I’d expect…”