That interests collage thing

Gakked from gillo and a few other people.

I thought this was actually pretty nifty -- it's a collage of pictures found somewhat randomly out on the internet that represent what you have listed in your insterests on LJ:

( Lots of little pictures under the cut -- if you're on dialup, you'll probably want to skip this. )

If you decide to give this thing a try, I will warn you... they don't seem to have any controls on what sort of pictures are displayed, though thankfully you can scroll through about ten options, or just eliminate the picture for a particular interest altogether (which I had to do in one case). As an example, the ones for my interest in the TV show "24" tended to come up with topless or nearly topless women (and one picture of Kiefer Sutherland).

Also, for some reason the first picture it picked for my interest in Rudyard Kipling was of a man who had been decapitated... his body laid out with his severed head on his chest. Even as a thumbnail it was most definitely NOT something I wanted or expected to see. I cycled away from it quickly, but I could have done without seeing it at all.

ETA: Heh! And it just occurred to me that the arrangement of images makes it look as though Freeman Dyson has a geek sprouting from his ear.

The week in picspam!!

A few pics from the last week...

At the JadeCon teacup auction this year, I ended up winning a really nifty Star Wars Celebration III throw blanket. I brought it home and tossed it over one of the banana chairs in the living room... where we've discovered that Zoë really enjoys curling up under the watchful eye of Darth Vader!

( Picture of Darth Zoë under the cut )

Our passionfruit plant has sprouted four flowers so far, most of which just fell off. However, we discovered a few weeks ago that we actually have one fruit growing! Squee!!!! Now we just have to hope it'll reach maturity...

( Picture of our lonely little passionfruit, growing on the back deck. )

And, lastly, I've been really pleased with the availability of imported foods around the area... one of our local grocery stores even started carrying Fantastic brand rice crackers recently and they've carried Vegemite forever (shelving it over with the peanut butter and Nutella and other spreads). Earlier this week, however, I stumbled across this in the baking section (pic taken with my cellphone).

( When grocery shelving policies go horribly awry... )