I’ve been so happy that companies are starting to use it in their products. On the way home Sunday night we tried Diet Rite and it was pretty good. I was lamenting the other day that Hansen’s has nice fruity sodas but I really want a cola-flavored soda sweetened with Splenda and lo there it was in the Los Lunas Giant. And those new light frappuccinos use it too taste just like the real thing to me.

WORDCOUNT / Tracking the Way We Use Language / the 86,800 most frequently used English words, ranked in order of commonality

snagged from ack3

Poorly-drawn cartoons inspired by actual spam subject lines

“Make all your Dreams Come True”

snagged from pop culture junk mail

You’re
the United Nations!
Most people think you’re ineffective, but you are trying to
completely save the world from itself, so there’s always going to be a long
way to go.  You’re always the one trying to get friends to talk to each
other, enemies to talk to each other, anyone who can to just talk instead of
beating each other about the head and torso.  Sometimes it works and sometimes
it doesn’t, and you get very schizophrenic as a result.  But your heart
is in the right place, and sometimes also in New York.
face="Times New Roman">Take the Country
Quiz at the Blue Pyramid

You’re Washington!
Though you were named after some ancient and revered relative, you’ve
taken off on your own course and are making a new name for yourself. Water dominates
your life, surrounding you on many sides and usually from above. Though you say you
love rain, it’s really that you’ve forgotten that there are other types of weather to
hold an opinion on. You have an amazingly eclectic interest in walls, spokes, yaks,
seats, and even the Olympics. It’ll all come out in the wash.

Take the State Quiz
at the Blue Pyramid.

Yohoho! Puzzle Pirates

Collaboration between Andrew Dunbar (photographer) and Anthony Chiappin (painter) and a bunch of nekkid people.

Rhino Box Surveys Fertile ’80s Underground

World’s Smallest Domestic Cat Weighs Only Three Pounds. He looks kinda grumpy but I bet he makes the sweetest little meows. Melon’s cuter though and she weighs maybe six pounds - two of those are probably fur alone.

You have seven days of dream-dates (all of which, of course, end in mind-blowing sex, hence the title of the game). You are allowed to choose one celebrity date for each night of the week and one alternate for each night, in case your first choice dream date is, say, arrested or is away on location.

You’re also allowed to have a “bull-pen”–people who are totally hot, but didn’t make your top 14 for whatever reason.

I first saw this one on Incogblogo but I changed the format for myself a bit. There’s no way I could write about each date without taking a long time so I’ll just make categories to entertain myself. Also I’m sticking to the movie guys for the sake of simplicity.

Monday: low accents and luring eyes
Top pick:Stuart Townsend
Close Second : Angus MacFadyen

Tuesday: cute know-it-alls
Top Pick: Edward Norton
Close Second : Liev Schreiber

Wednesday: older ecclectics with manly shoulders
Top Pick : Benicio Del Toro
Close Second : Vincent D’Onofrio

Thursday: sporty and light on intellectual conversation
Top Pick : Tony Alva
Close Second: Ryan Phillippe

Friday: dark-headed, English, and slightly scary
Top Pick: Clive Owen
Close Second: Colin Firth

The Time Warp Weekend (or if time weren’t an issue)

Saturday: Saturday matinee idol time
Top Pick : Cary Grant
Close Second : Paul Newman

Sunday: nihilistic sarcastic humor for my least favorite day of the week
Top Pick: George Sanders
Close Second: Robert Benchley

Bullpen :
Lanky and strange:
Adrien Brody (alternate - Vincent Gallo)

Funny and still belts a hell of a song:
Mandy Patinkin (alternate - Kevin Kline)

The Trainspotting factor (or my Plunkett and Macleane shame) :
Jonny Lee Miller (alternate - Robert Carlyle)

Never a dull moment:
Tim Robbins (alternate: Gary Oldman)

There are no substitutes:
Campbell Scott, Jeremy Northam, Sam Rockwell, Jake Gyllenhaal, Jon Stewart, Brendan Fraser, Rufus Sewell.