Why metaquotes is faster than the news:

It first told me that Steve Irwin (aka the crocodile guy) is dead. Ironically, not killed by a poisonous snake or croc', but a usually non-aggressive stingray to the heart.

You can read the entire works if Shakespeare here.

Or about the utterly cool condition of synaesthesia.

Compare the simplified form of CHinese characters to the traditional form. Or, rather, learn Chinese charactes here.

Meme via active_apathy

If there is one or more people on your friends list who makes your world a better place just because they exist and who you would not have met (in real life or not) without the Internet, then post this same sentence in your journal.

My note: "Met" actually means "lurk at their LJ with an occasional comment".

And one of those people, darthmaligna, posts incredibly wonderufl YouTube vid, with the added comment of:

Intelligence can be very sexy. Hence why I totally want to bang Jon Stewart and Anderson Cooper.

That being said, this video is hardcore intellectual porn. Keith Olbermann is a naughty housewife and we are all innocent pizza delivery boys. I think I need to change my underwear.

Thanks to courtknee for the link!

And evadne_noel gives us the rundown on 80'a MTV vids.

Then there's The Drinksmixer site, for all your alcoholic drinks. May I say, the Southern Screw sounds delish'.

There's also Eddie Izzard icons over at digitaljazz's LJ and my new knowledge that Eddie Izzard was on Who's Line is it Anyway. Must YouTube that...