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I also read a lot of clopfics and stuff.

The expurgated version (couldn't find the complete one) of Jorge Luis Borges' "Book of Imaginary Beings"

The Book of Imaginary Beings (El libro de los seres imaginarios) by Jorge Luis Borges

Wow! Now I've gotta check this band out!

The indecipherable Codex Seraphinianus

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And I thought I was shameless and self-promoting.  Hmmm.  I feel a plot coming on...  I'll see what hatches.  PETA needs to have their ethical limits tested.   
(or at least made fun of)

I think you should really do some research first... PETA is one of the last organizations I can think of that needs to have their ethical limits tested, because they don't seem to have any. These people steal dogs from shelters and then kill them, by the truckload. They are scum.

what?!  
for real? like, verified?
they do this regularly?

Did you google it? Because yes.

Start here:
http://www.nokillnow.com/PETAIngridNewkirkResign.htm

http://www.consumerfreedom.com/pressRelease_detail.cfm/r/109-peta-employees-face-31-felony-animal-cruelty-charges-for-killing-dumping-dogs

This was all over the news a few years ago.

There's a roundup, here:

http://petakillsanimals.com/

In 2010, PETA reported that, at it's Norfolk, VA office it found homes for a whopping 44 animals.  Not 44% of the animals in PETA's care...  44 animals.  It destroyed 2,200 adoptable cats and dogs.

The super-special part is that in most cases, they didn't even TRY. They just picked them up, gassed them, and threw them in dumpsters. Including, in some cases, pets that were being temporarily boarded while their owners were out of town.

WTF?

I gotta know...What was their justification for THAT?

Probably "owning pets is exploitation because animals aren't meant to live with human overlords", or some such psychotic bullshit.

Found a couple of verifiable cases of PETA stealing dogs off of chains or runners in yards.  Nothing about them stealing pets being boarded.

I can't find the article to link to because I read it a while back, but it was about the animals that the two PETA employees were convicted of killing. They were taking them from the shelter, but some of the animals weren't strays.

Please refer to them as "PETA Cultists", not "PETA Employees"...

http://www.torontosun.com/2011/08/21/peta-to-launch-porn-site

In another sensational attempt to draw attention to the plight of animals, People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) is planning to launch a porn site later this year.

A spokeswoman for the group says the site will feature adult content along with graphic images of animals that viewers may not expect to see.

"We are preparing to launch our own peta.xxx site, but instead of just showing people our iconic ads we then show them how animals suffer for entertainment," PETA's Ashley Byrne told Australia's Herald Sun. The organization says its sexy side displayed in galleries and videos will quickly give way to the sinister world of animal mistreatment uncovered by the group's hidden camera investigations.

So, it's bascially going to be an animal torture porn site.

Fantastic.

This site will be shut down when they realize that for many people the unexpected pictures will actually enhance the experience. Or a related note, does anybody have the site's address?

Yes, I know this post is alive right now..
...but one day it will die and then someone will resurrect it.....

It will either come back as jesus or a Zombie, or maybe a combination of the two.

The Passion of Zombie Jesus

The Passion of the Zombie Christ

Zombie Jesus

Zombie Jesus Is Back

Zombie Jesus Day

Easter Zombie Jesus

Zombie Jesus Dot Com

A biography of the Beatles written in the tone and style of the Christian gospels (inspired by the incident in which John Lennon famously brought up the fact that the Beatles are bigger than Jesus)

Here's an excerpt of what I have so far:

Beatles 10:01 John Lennon and the Beatles went about preaching a gospel of peace and the renunciation of war unto the multitudes
Beatles 10:02 And the people asked him, saying, "What shall we do then?"
Beatles 10:03 He answereth and saith unto them, "He that hath two coats, let him impart to him that hath none; and he that hath food, let him do likewise."
Beatles 10:04 Then came also tax-men to be baptized and said unto them "Masters, what shall we do?"
Beatles 10:05 And the Beatles replied "You who would tax the heat of the cold and the seats of the tired should do well to remember that money will not buy you love."
Beatles 10:06 And the soldiers likewise demanded of them, saying, "And what shall we do?"
Beatles 10:07 And they said unto them, "Do violence unto no man, neither accuse any falsely; and rather Give Peace a Chance."
Beatles 10:08 And as the people were in expectation, and all men mused in their hearts of John, whether he were the Christ, or not
Beatles 10:09 John replied "I am bigger than the christ"
Beatles 10:10 And all the Christians, when they heard these things, were filled with wrath
Beatles 10:11 And rose up, and thrust him out of the city, and led him unto the brow of the hill whereon the city was built, that they might cast him down headlong.
Beatles 10:12 But he passed through their midst and departed

This segment I've written is all based on actual bible passages, BTW (For example, IIRC, Beatles 10:08 is stolen verbatim from Luke 3:15)

pi is the area constant.

(pi)(r)^2

And area is a hell of a lot more relevant than circumfrence!

Isn't this all a bit like trying to prove that 1 is more fundamental than 2?

This is hilarious.

Now I'm alternating between The 1001 Arabian Nights, Mark Twain's What Is Man, and Other Essays, Charles Darwin's On The Origin of Species, and Nietzsche's The Antichrist.

[Toon: The Cartoon Roleplaying Game]

For preschoolers I have no idea what to recommend.

(For elementary schoolers though, I would recommend Toon: The Cartoon Roleplaying Game by SJ Games)

Here's the kind of thing that I think about in my spare time....

In many fantasy settings that I have encountered (and particularly in Dungeons and Dragons campaign settings), dragons, as well as powerful otherworldly creatures such as angels and demons, have the capacity to crossbreed and produce viable/fertile offspring with nearly any kind of corporeal creature. From this, certain results in the world at large in these settings might be expected.

This trait of omnifertility, combined with the clear/massive advantages to survival (and, in the case of descendants of beings from the celestial realms, appearance/attractiveness) conferred by their supernatural bloodline over typical members of their mundane species (advantages which might persist in being passed down to some dergee over several generations of crossing only with the mundane species of the original cross) would mean that semi-dragons, semi-demons and semi-celestials (et cetera) would have an evolutionary advantage over their fully mundane (or rather more fully mundane, as I will explain presently) conspecifics. As a result, their draconic or extraplanar genes might be expected to be spread far in the genepool, while at the same time being diluted (or at least, as a rule of thumb, not significantly increased) down to a certain limit depending on the overall size of the genepool and the frequency of supernatural crossbreedings, with the end result being that eventually most (or more likely, all) living corporeal creatures' genomes, regardless of species (more or less; although it could be (most likely validly) argued that sentient species might be expected to contain a significantly higher percentage of celestial genes on average than subsentient species), would contain some percentage of both draconic and otherworldly DNA, without the overall appearance of those creatures being significantly altered (EXCEPT in the cases of small isolated populations with small gene pools, and/or populations situated in close proximity to a dragon's lair or extraplanar portal and in which crossbreedings could thus be expected to occur more frequently)

Additionally, inheritence, in whole or in part, of the panfecundity trait enabling these crosses in the first place could go a long way towards explaining such anomolies as half-elves and half-orcs