Saturday, September 13, 2003


World’s Fairs and Expos


The Internet enables many different types of obsessions. Some of them are even healthy, or at least harmless. Perhaps the most rewarding of these is the ability to “drill down” into some field of knowledge of which you have only the slightest pre-existing familiarity. I went on one of those adventures this evening, and just for kicks I’ll share a bit of what I found. Today I learned about World’s Fairs.

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Friday, January 03, 2003


What if the Lord of the Rings had been written by ______________?


Take a look at these wonderfully funny parodies of the Lord of the Rings, in the styles of various writers. Very entertaining.


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The adjuration to be "normal" seems shockingly repellent to me; I see neither hope nor comfort in sinking to that low level. I think it is ignorance that makes people think of abnormality only with horror and allows them to remain undismayed at the proximity of "normal" to average and mediocre. For surely anyone who achieves anything is, essentially, abnormal. -- Dr. Karl Menninger, "The Human Mind", 1930

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