Two Fun Time-Sucks for When You're Feeling Uninspired

#1-- JD over at i do things so you don't have to has shared a great new plaything: Wordle. You know those word clouds that are totally confusing and frustrating when you encounter them on, say, Stumble? It turns out, when it's all made of my own words, it's kinda fun! JD, I know you did it so I wouldn't have to and I thank you for that, but this one I had to try. It's like the verbal equivalent of an intestinal blockage.




#2-- I've seen the word "meme" bandied about quite a bit and don't like to admit ignorance, so I turned to Wikipedia, which is like a group of disagreeably erudite and possibly drunk friends, each convinced of his own unassailable rectitude. (Plus one member of the Colbert Nation screwing with everyone's heads.) Little did I know that I would be wading into a debate about social evolution. Dawkins and Darwin and memes, oh my!

So I turned to SinisterDan at A Reasonable Ego for relief. He distracted me from the endless tilling of philosophical ground with a fun little project to do at home. He's researched a great way to make an album or band meme and has a spooky story to tell about his experience. Here are the directions from his site:

1. Go to Wikipedia and hit the random page function; this is the name of your band.

2. Similarly, go to QuotationsPage.com and take the last four words of the very last quote; this will be you album title.

3. Finally, go to this link at Flickr and use the third image; this is your album cover.

Here's mine:


Though Steven Pinker might not approve, I'm happy for this diversion, as I'm feeling like a bit of a blank slate today.