Journal entries in 'Random Crap I Found On The Internet' for December, 2005

Usually I try to avoid posts that are simple links to other sites, but looking at Cute Overload is such a mood improver that I can't deny anyone the opportunity. It's basically just a blog where they post pictures of cute things, but really it's more like a perpetually flowing font of happiness. I literally find it difficult to avoid giggling when looking at this site. And by most reports, I'm quite heterosexual.

Here are some of my favorite entries. If you can really look at these dispassionately, without a single high-pitched sound escaping your lips, you're dead inside.

• Delicious!
• Rule of Cuteness #9
• Whatevs
• Homework
• Rule of Cuteness #8
• C is for Cookie
• Staring Contest

Heehee :)

I read about myheritage.com, a site that uses facial recognition software to tell you what celebrities you resemble. I tried uploading a few photos of myself, and here's the results.

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I constantly find myself slipping into the comfortable, habitual attitude of reducing strangers to caricatures. When I scoff at someone on the road who drifts out of their lane and into mine, and then minutes later I find myself doing it myself. I have to keep reminding myself that it is my tendency to forget about people's humanity and treat them as if there were nothing more to them than the tiny part that I can currently see.

This is explained very effectively, and at the same time humorously, in The Monkeysphere. I found myself thinking, "Yes, exactly!" with each sentence I read. I think you will enjoy it as well.

The Pope is about to abolish the doctrine of Limbo. Before his death, Pope John Paul II summoned an international commission of theologians to come up with a "more coherent and illuminating" doctrine in tune with the modern age. The commission is going to recommend that the concept of Limbo be replaced by the more "compassionate" doctrine that all children who die do so "in the hope of eternal salvation".

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