Zzzzzzzzzz

Scientists claim that if you Sleep more, you have a better chance of not gaining weight.

whatever.

Choose your own adventure is back!

This might be old news to some, but the Choose Your Own Adventure books have been updated and are back in print.

These books rocked. I could go on a rant about how they were precursors to hypertextual narratives; I could say that they fostered analytical thought, and the notion that our actions have consequences; I could say that non-linear nature of the "text" in fact problematizes textuality insofar as the text you read and the one I read may be quite different, which is to say, it simply underscores the process we undertake whenever we read "texts."

But really, they rock because they are just wicked fun.

This is Rad

A little bit of awesomeossityness: good grammar costs nothing

(via China Ruby)

Meat Chips!

Jen brought home a bag of these the other day:


This is what they look like out of the bag:


My first reaction: "They taste kind of gross, but I can't stop eating them."

They are crispy and salty and sweet and taste vaguely like meat. Yum!

remaking the world

According to one of my students, "Iran is a NATO nation and those countries are forbidden from producing uranium"