Would you like a Simpsons avatar?

By purepedantry on July 10, 2007.

Go to the Simpsons movie site and make your own.

Here's mine.

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Elsewhere on the Web (8/21/07)

Dusk in Autumn on the perils of blogs and Wikipedia: In reality, the greatest threat to the intellectual lives of college graduates -- at least those whose minds have not irreparably rotted from studying literary theory or women's studies -- is internet pseudo-learning, exemplified by an addiction…

Make Yourself a Word Cloud

This is fun. You can make a word cloud from a bit of text or a url. Here is one for this site (click to enlarge): Presumably the words are sized by frequency. I finding it quite amusing that "drinking" and "research" are the same size. Shows you what I have on the brain. Hat-tip: Cosmic…

Now that is one big snake

Imagine the size of the mice it would eat: Named Titanoboa cerrejonensis by its discoverers, the size of the snake's vertebrae suggest it weighed 1140 kg (2,500 pounds) and measured 13 metres (42.7 feet) nose to tail tip. A report describing the find appears in this week's Nature. Drs Jason Head…

Psychobabble solicitaiton

PsyBlog is soliciting your favorite psychobabble. Head over there to give your favorite instance of the complete misinterpretation of psychology in pop culture. My favorite is number one on their list of examples: "Their brains lit up in the scanner." Brain activity is not phosphorescent. There…

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how do i get the code to save my avatar and put it on my page?

yo your simpson isnt even funny!!!!!!!

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