Ref desk blues

At the Ref desk again, all day today, thus poking about online. I've discovered Panhandling Worldwide, which is the blog of a comedian who is trying to answer the burning questions of "Will people give money to a man in a banana suit?" and "Does every sign have to say God Bless?" (He also seems to be filming a documentary.)

My favorite entry so far is when he debates putting haiku on his sign and commenters chime in with some good ones:

My other sign is
a Shakespearean sonnet
printed on plastic

"May I have some change?"
asked Eshun. Said the master,
"Change comes from within."


Anyway, if any of you have the misfortune to be stuck inside reading Livejournal on a Saturday, then you are MORALLY OBLIGATED TO ENTERTAIN ME SOMEHOW.

Linkblogging on Saturday

World's most expensive things. The second page is notable for misspelling the word "carat" in the obvious way.

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Scanned short reviews from the American Newtype of Dramacon, Steady Beat, I Luv Halloween, and Off*Beat are up at the Pseudome Studios forums.

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A weekly roundup of good medical blogs (fascinoma, this looks right up your alley).



what, post all of today's links in one big post? The HELL you say!

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John Scalzi's sobering What being poor means, saved so I can spend time reading the many, many comments after lunch.

Human physical variety...

...is quite fascinating. I just experienced two extremes being introduced to each other by a mutual friend. The first guy was a very very thin, very tall (I'm thinking well over 6 feet, maybe 6'10" or so), very young-faced (round cheeks, snub nose, dimples), black (that very dark, charcoal-tinted black that always reminds me of the East Africans I knew as a kid) student meet another one, who was much shorter (over a foot shorter), very stocky (not fat at all, but well-built, muscular, and stocky, and he's wearing a sleeveless athletics shirt so it makes me think 'wrestler'), with sandy brown spiky hair and glasses, and a much older face with a heavier jawline and brow ridge, and lightly-tanned white skin.

If I were an alien seeing these two as my only examples, I'd seriously be wondering by appearances if the hairless apes came in more than one species.