[Israeli] Army frowns on Dungeons and Dragons

http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3052074,00.html

"Army frowns on Dungeons and Dragons

"IDF says players are detached from reality and automatically given a low security clearance"

(thanks to beetiger and outlawradio for the link)

katamari damacy on the brain

Two urls for novawolf, monkeygod, kidsnide, and everyone else I know who's played enough KD to appreciate these:

http://www.livejournal.com/users/lampbane/311743.html

http://crowstoburnaby.com/index.php/2005/03/08/katamari_da_vinci

(thanks to perspicuity for the links!)

It has been brought to my attention...

...that today is "Go Commando Day".

Who thinks up these things, anyway? Certainly not Hallmark.

Snow devils!

Yesterday, while driving to the library on the winding bits of Route 146, I saw snow devils whirling and spinning across the road, breaking up as they ran into the trees at the side of the road. They looked so much like dust devils, except they were ghostly white.

It was all very pretty, so despite my disappointment at the library being closed because of the weather--all two inches of snowfall--I was glad I'd gone for the drive.