Five fun links

[yendi]

1. I will Survive (Jesus version) (ganked from tnh/Making Light).

2. A remix/mashup of Suzanne Vega's "Tom's Diner" and the Good Eats theme (with some extra sound clips). For those who simply want to download the MP3 file, right-click on this link (ganked from a comment allroads made in my earlier post).

3. Amazon now does concordances and readability tests for books. So we can now find out that The Da Vinci Code is (depending on which test is used) in the bottom fifth to bottom third of books in terms of grade-level readability. The "fun stats" portion is my favorite, informing us how many words per dollar and words per ounce we get from a novel (the latter being important, I suppose, if you're packing books for a trip).

4. Via popfiend comes the wrongest shower concept ever: Shower breasts (images NSFW). The idea? Squeezable breasts that you hand in the shower and squeeze to release soap and shampoo.

5. The website for Garth Marenghi's Darkplace at the Sci-Fi Channel is offering the first episode for free online. Watch it -- it's goofy fun.

Comments

[bassfingers.livejournal.com]

Love the Vega. Typical YTMND fare, but they seem to be getting better.

On the Amazon stats, fun to notice that Holy Blood, Holy Grail outranks Da Vinci Code in all categories but words per dollar and words per ounce. (Well, and it tends to have longer sentences, so the sentence count is smaller while the word count is higher.)

[yendi]

At some point, I'd like to see them offer the ability to compare books side-by-side. That'd make things really fun.

[thelastrobot.livejournal.com]

The Garth site is good, too.

http://garthmarenghi.com/

[yendi]

Danke!

[photognome.livejournal.com]

Why do I have the feeling that most men who buy the shower boobs will be afixing them to the wall a bit lower than shown in the ad.

[yendi]

Heh. I also think a lot of the folks who buy 'em won't necessarily bother installing them in the shower.

[popfiend.livejournal.com]

My brain doesn't work like that at all.

Never occured to me.

[amokk]

Amazon's done the concordance before, just not with all books, because I've seen it with some others in the past.

It'd be amusing if it did just say "Da Vinci is written at a 4th grade level" and be done with it. ;)

[cissa.livejournal.com]

I may need to get J shower breasts for Xmas. Thank you... I think. :)