Another I'm-Busy-Back-Off-Already Roundup

Hey hey, I'm sorry everyone, but school and life in general have been kicking my butt, so I'm going to have to enlist the help of the internet hive mind to entertain you this week.

First up we have Ms. Julia Sweeney and an except from her monologue "Letting Go of God". I actually met Ms. Sweeney in person this week. She's incredibly down to earth and it was interesting to hear how she left religion, especially when there were many of us in the audience whose stories paralleled her own.

Speaking of wonderful people with whom I was previously not acquainted until this week, I was lucky enough to meet Mr. Jim Emerson (of scanners blog and rogerebert.com) on the exact same day as Ms. Sweeney, yes they were both on campus for the same program, so it's not as large a coincidence as it would have been otherwise, but it was still absolutely FANTASTIC. If you haven't visited yet, I suggest you head on over and check out the "Inglourious Basterds" saga (both the posts themselves and the commentary).

Now for some links:

• Norman Borlaug is dead. Don't know who he is? You should.



• Where Did All the Flowers Come From? A report on research addressing the evolution of angiosperms with a special appearance from one of my professors.



• Mini T-Rex? Yes please. (Scientific American)
• Octopi limbs! It turns out an octopus can tell its arms a general goal, and the limb itself does the computing of how to accomplish that task. Bad ass. (WIRED)

AND

• Darwin film (NOT!) too controversial for Americans. Everyone saw the original article last week, so why is no one paying attention to the follow-up?

Finally, I'd like to send out a [forced?] meme alert.
With the arrival of Inturrupting Kanye (By the way, every one of those letters is a different picture.) I'm afraid many people have missed out on what is now one of my favorite nerd-freakouts of all time: "WHOSE RESPONSIBLE THIS?" The result of a Topless Robot writer's weekly column "Fan Fiction Friday"the phrase is the result of an author's temper tantrum upon learning that their story (which involves teddy-bear-pokemon beastiality) had been featured:

"WHOSE RESPONSIBLE THIS? I wanna know whose idea was this RIGHT NOW. Who did this on purpose, huh? I found this little secret and I'm so angry I wanna know who did this and why or I'll report everyone here to the site moderaters on this website and Yiffstar and have the one responsible BANNED FOR LIFE. NOW TELL ME WHO DID THIS NOW?"

"Fisrt, nobody checks spellling on the internet!!!! SEcond, I"m only in high school, so give me a fucking break!!! Third, I am what they call the best of the best, so mock all you want, but I have my fans, and they lvoe my stories!!!! "
-Brickhousebunny21

Realizing this was pure gold waiting to be mined, the web got to work (twitpic, toplessrobot, whoseresponsiblethis.com...)


While it does entertain me greatly, I believe philosoraptor has a good question, appropriate for for this particular semi-meme.