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I’m getting a kick out of the mature-audience iPhone apps (though they seem more like immature audience apps, really). Pull my Finger is the best - it makes a bunch of different fart sounds when you tap on a variety of images of people’s fingers. With iBeer you can amaze your friends by virtually chugging beer (realistic swallowing sound included). Christmas Carols by iChristmas not only gives you the lyrics to all of your favorite holiday soungs, it also plays the tune so you can sing along! And Holiday Snow Globe is - you guessed it! - a pretty darned realistic snow globe for your iPhone.

All can be had for a mere 99 cents each! If this doesn’t totally justify buying an iPhone or iPod touch, I don’t know what does!

After a loooong week in San Jose working the CLA 2008 conference, we’re back home catching up. Even better, we have NO travel plans for at least two weeks! We actually had a lot of fun. Here’s a photo of us in action:

We didn’t have to wear those outfits the whole time, thank goodness.

Here’s my exciting link of the day: there is now an OFFICIAL Monty Python YouTube channel! No more crappy clips cadged from old VCR tapes - the gang has posted really high quality versions of classics like the Penis Song and the Ministry of Silly Walks.

What a year: Obama wins AND we get a Monty Python YouTube channel! Life is good…

Courtesy of Yahoo News, the world’s oldest joke (1900 B.C.):  ”Something which has never occurred since time immemorial; a young woman did not fart in her husband’s lap.”

Hahahahahaha!!!

Some time ago a friend introduced me to the term serendipitous sarching, where looking for one thing leads to another thing, which leads to another thing, which leads to another thing… It put a name to something I had been doing for years. Serendipitous searching was why I got a graduate degree in Library Science, so I could get paid to spend my life looking for things that would lead me to look for other things. Awesome!

So there I was as the afternoon wound down today, reading my latest blog feeds - something I try to do several times a week. (And I try really hard not to just select the Mark All News As Read option which is cheating but when the New York Times feed alone has 385 unread items what the hell choice do I HAVE?!? But I digress.) Anyway, I was innocently plowing through the Huffington Post feed (huff, huff, huff) and ran across an uncharacteristically lighthearted subject line that read: Ed Martin: Watch Weezer and Test Your Viral Video IQ. That grabbed me so much that I clicked on the subject line and the whole entry popped up in Firefox. It was all about a new music video from Weezer called Pork and Beans (alert: this tune is seriously catchy! you will hear it in your head for some time if you listen to it!!) and how the video incorporates sntaches from all sorts of Internet memes. Okay, that was bad enough and I of course had to go listen to the video then go back and check out the Weezer website. But then the post also referenced an episode of South Park called Meet the Internet Stars (which I had to go and watch, which led me to check out more Season 12 episodes (and let me just say, “Whoa! South Park has been on TV for 12 seasons!?!”). Between the Weezer music video and South Park, I was alarmed by how many of the memes I recognized, but there were a few that were new to me. Like Numa Numa (15 million views - okay, 15 million and one). Or Miss Teen USA 2007 (26 million views).

The Internet is such a wonderful thing! I’m going to go watch Numa Numa again. Or maybe Peanut Butter Jelly Time (6.9 million views). Or the Llama Song (4.2 million views).