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April 12th:
I am completely in love with the Cafe Nation site. There are instructions on how to make Turkish cofee and how to read the grounds! There's free email (lattewoman@javajunkie.zzn.com) and postcards. I want to move in.

They also offer an interactive coffee fortune teller that you can put on your own site! It's cool because it not only gives you the fortune, but tells you about the beans. (I found out why I don't like the Sumatra stuff, the secret to the New Orleans coffee and what makes Kona so good.)

The NHL Playoffs started today. Aaaw, yeah. The Sabres play tomorrow -- Dominik is not only the world's greatest goalie, he can clean himself like a cat!

April 11th:
This is my favorite Magic 8 Ball site, and I've been to almost all of them. I like looking at the real blue triangle thingy for the answer.

April 10th:
Right after I started hanging out at hipMama I found out (from the mamas, who then recruited Gwen to hM themselves) about Gwen's Trailer Trash site. Pure genius. Hilarious stuff. Recommended it to everyone I knew. I really thought it was one of those places everyone knew about and had been to.

You know, like the dancing hamster place.

And then someone found her site, made some cheap-ass plagiarized imitation, pretended it was his own, and now he's going on the "Roseanne" show. What. The. Hell?

Yeah, Roseanne's joked about being white trash before, so this is just her kind of thing. Talking about the trailer trash website is something she'd love to do you'd think. She lived in a trailer for awhile, right? But this is Gwen's stuff, dammit! She should be talking to her!

I am going to email Roseanne and see what happens. But... damn. Did the guy seriously think no one would realize he stole the stuff?

April 9th:
I love mail. Get some free origami paper from OPP AB.

April 8th:
I love tests like this -- Breed Selector. You answer some questions and it tells you the perfect breed of cat or dog for you. For a kitty I ended up with Tonkinese and for the dog, an English Springer Spaniel. But you know I'll just get whichever one I fall in love with at the Humane Society.

I've been searching for various comic books sites (it's for work! I swear!) and found the homes of my two favorites -- Debbie Drechsler (of "Nowhere.") and Jessica Abel ("artbabe"). No, they are not typical. No torpedo boobs or superpowers or cameos by the undead.

The coolest site for girls in comics has got to be Friends of Lulu. If I can get work to pay for it I'll definitely join. Oh, I'll end up joining either way probably.

I might not know what I like, but I know art.

April 6th:
Oh my god. It's another "I kiss you!" kind of guy. The definition of gigolo is what puts this page over the top.

April 5th:
Pundita lists big ol' corporations that have no women on their boards of directors in her Hall of Shame. It includes Nike, Microsoft and Manpower.

Math Geeks, I know you're out there. Get some Mathematician Trading Cards. Including greats like Leonhard Euler, René Descartes and Leonardo Pisano Fibonacci. Collect them all!
(Link thanks to Bird on a Wire).

Finger Twister seemed like it would be fun, but it was way too difficult for me to control the mouse to hit "next" with my fingers all over the monitor.

April 3rd:
Okay, here's a very cool page that will briefly tell you all about Don and Twitch City.

If you want a real Chinese fortune cookie, go to Tick vs page, then have a bad fortune cookie with advice like, "Always remember to pillage before you burn," and "Your heart is impure, your mind clouded and your soul evil."

My haiku for "Roxanne," the Cyrano rip-off movie with Steve Martin and Daryl Hannah:
    Smart with a big nose
    But she wanted everything
    Then she loved the big nose.
Lots more (even funnier!) at the Movie-a-Minute website.

I can not for June so I can get some hipMama coffee.

April 2nd:
Finally! I found a site about Moose in the City! It's basically the cow thing they did in Chicago (have area artists design big fiberglass figures), but this is Canada, so of course Toronto used mooses. I can't wait. There's an article about it at Canoe.

Are you sick of everyone telling you about their Cisco stock? I may not be able to afford any, but I found a way to join in at Sandbox Final Bell. Oh sure, it's just simulation, but you can talk about it vaguely enough that no one has to know.

Free stuff! (Thanks again to Heather)
Free Nescafe coffee -- I use the flavoury "coffee drinks" not as real coffee but add it to coffee. Cheaper than syrup and still good. (The GFIC kahlua is especially yummy like this -- go there and get a $7 rebate!). And free chocolates (!) if you register at clubmom.com.

Okay, there's new stuff in the bookmarks: recipes for chicken divan and tabouli; a very cool art and mail art site; and a new crafty place.

March 31st:
I love fun stuff like this Chinese Fortune Cookie site. It's not like a fortune cookie from a restaurant, but a little blurb about your Chinese Zodiac sign. I like it because it included my stone (amethyst, which I do like better than May's emeralds), and a list of famous people who are also dragons -- John Lennon, Joan of Arc, Bruce Lee and Pearl S. Buck. Cool.

Twitch City is my very favorite show and you must watch it. It's not in the US yet, but it will be. Don McKellar is brilliant. Just brilliant.

Hey, who didn't know that Furbies were evil?

Think I moved here too late to enjoy this benefit of being a Canadian?

Oh, and the Jailbird Journal is back.

March 30th, part 2:
I'm practically famous! Carol, of the fab feminist zine Whirling Cervix, linked to me from her Land of the Fractured Lorax pitas page, and even included a nice little blurb.
I'm flattered.

March 30th:
You know, I've never linked to ericka's pitas page, and that's weird, because I read it every day. She writes new stuff daily, and sometimes the entries are short, sometimes long, but always interesing. Also, she insists on the lower-case "e" in her name.

I accidentally stumbled on another erica, (without a "k") and I like her stuff too, but she doesn't update as often.

Yes, the United Lycanthrope Association people say they are werewolves. For real. They also say that the Catholic Church teaches they are "devil's creatures," but I don't remember that from cathecism. (I looked it up anyway -- the Church says that the satanic group "Werewolf Order" [who are not actually werewolves], are you know, devil people.)

I can't believe Martha Stewart missed out on being the creator of Tombstone Cozies.

Finally, I'm so pleased with myself I just have to share:

Main Entry: 1 code geek ess
Pronunciation: 'kOd 'gEk es
Function: noun
Date: 14th century
Etymology: Middle English, from Middle French, codex trunk of a tree; from English dialect geek, geck genius.
1 archaic : beautiful woman with sovereign power and superior intelligence
2 : woman of an intellectual bent likened to a princess
2a: same as above, who is capable of usign a system of signals or symbols for communication

March 28th:
The guy behind the crazy-bitch site was on "The View" yesterday, and supposedly real charges have been filed, but I still don't know if I buy it. Okay, it's real, obviously.. but I'm suspicious. Maybe they planned the whole thing together.

Halee knows a lot about dancing with kitties. I want to put this to a tune and sing it to children.

No idea if it's any good, but I really want to try ginseng chew. (It's gum!)

March 27th:
Hey, there's a really cool link to a create-a-menu planner in the recipe bookmarks. Over there, to the left. Down some.

I can't believe I got away with suggesting the Momstyle quiz and not including the What Kind of Dad are you? quiz. This one categorizes you as a dad by decade. Another quiz I saw today is The Mother Game, about your relationship with Mom. I can't recommend it because I can't take it since the quiz doesn't consider your mom might be dead. So, I suppose that means I'm officially not recommending it.

To cheer myself up I filled out a thingy for free tea from Top Quality Tea. If you're in the US, get your free tea from Revolution Tea, which is the one I really wanted. It's some kind of Hawaiian zinger flavour.

Did you know you have a Karma Sign? I'm a Pisces, and the advice included this insightful bit:
"In order to attract more good fortune, learn to focus your sensitivity in healthy directions to avoid the need to escape."

March 26th:
Everyone seems to rave about Dan Savage and his "Savage Love" column, but when it and he left "eye" for Now magazine in Toronto, eye started running Sasha's Love Bites in its place. I just gotta say I like her much better. She's got the experience, the wit, and she doesn't really hate anybody. Well, she'll still tell off the stupid people, but I don't get the feeling she's anti-anything, unless it's anti-tightass.

My kitty has been having these sneezing fits, so I went looking on the web. I found a good cat health site, Cat Health, and Dr. Kitty fun for alls, which is a site filled with fun cat jokes, laws of cat inertia and the cool Felix program you can download to have a kitty wandering around your desktop.

Again, because of FCC fairness in reporting regulations, I have to supply a dog site, and I recommend, Virtual Dog, where you can adopt a virtual dog and take him or her to a park, the vet, the pet store. I got a Bernese Mountain Dog and named him, "Spike."

March 25th:
I get sick of filling out forms online for free goodies and getting to the bottom where it inevitably says, "Offer Good in US Only." But thanks to Heather, I've found Canadian Free Stuff! Free stuff, deals and contests. Just for us, eh.

Another journal that's been around but I just discovered (and liked!) is Love, Curiousity, Freckles and Doubt. Dorothy is an excellent writer, the pages are pretty and she's spending a year in Romania.

A friend of mine just purchased a new house, so I'm trying to help her find rituals to bless the place and chase out evil spirits. In the search for those, I found a site for people who live in my dream-house, a bungalow. And a beautiful site for creative pagans.

If you feel a little evil killing a crash test dumbass, don't. He deserves it for the way he talks to you.