Random Saturday links

I didn’t like aubergines / eggplants before seeing these pictures, but now I’m not even going to try them every once in a while to see if my tastes have changed…

B3ta’s last competition was to illustrate misheard song lyrics. My faves? This one, this one (requires UK pronunciation) and this one.

If you’re on Facebook and liking the Scrabulous application, why not go the whole hog and download the game from here it’s not as pretty as Scrabulous, but I’ve yet to see it go down for 48 hours. Create a username, install the app, play a few games to establish your rating then watch your social life swiftly disappear over the horizon. My handle’s gwynfisher, and rating somewhere in the mid 1000s. Strictly SOWPODS.

All Calvin and Hobbes ever written online. Love it.

and finallly if you have a blog, this is enlightening: 13 blog clichés.

Plans for today, mooching around with my lovely camera then a pachanga round Aranza´s house off of Flickr at 8. Which means “any time but 8”. Aranza came round yesterday for a scanning session of old-school photos and discussed the respective merits of US/ Latin American academic endeavours. I was largely lost as I can barely maintain my side of an academic discussion in English let alone Espanish, still it was lovely to see Atticus make another new friend. I love the tags she put on his photo here… “el galan del barrio” indeed…