Other int'restin' Shit on "the internets"

Since I started doing this bl-bl-blah-blog thing, I've been reading some other blogs. One of the better ones is Fimicoulous. Rex Sorgatz spends lots of time putting together links to some great stuff. One thing that caught my eye was his year-end list of lists. Check his out. But I’m gonna cherry-pick some links that tickled me.

For one, drunk driving is really unattractive, as proved by this list of the best 2005 mugshots.

Secondly, the top ten words that people sought definitions of from online dictionaries in 2005 is awfully revealing.

Cute pictures of doggies are, well, still cute.

Be sure to see the banished words list, for perhaps the definitive statement on FEMA.

For the entire news cycle zeitgeist in graphic form, check out this dry erase board for all 2005 as a shot to the brain, but be sure you click the close-up to get all the detail. It makes you wonder why we’re not in the streets with pitchforks and torches crying for the blood of our leaders.

Speaking of which, another thing I saw on Sorgatz’s site was a link to the preview of the new Sofia Coppola film, "Marie Antoinette." The incongruity of watching Kirsten Dunst frolic and cavort in 17th century wigs and bodices to the sound of New Order’s “Age of Consent” (I think) has a certain sick pleasure but what’s next? Reenactments of teenage Khmer Rouge guerillas purging the cities and partying to the tune of the DK’s "Holiday In Cambodia”, or should it just be footage of us bombing everyone else to the tune of our national anthem?

Bilious today, are we?

Yes, most days, I'm afraid.