... oh, for smeg's sake.

Remind me that if I am going to attempt a Fifty States In Three Minutes recollection run again, I should not do so while listening to my mp3's. And that "O Canada" is really not the best mp3 to start with anyway.

On the other hand I did manage to get forty-seven states right off the bat despite said anthem. It's just that it took me two entire verses of "Leader of the Band" to remember Kentucky and Arizona, and in the end it turned out I somehow skipped Massachusetts entirely.

(In the interest of fairness I just tried the Canadian provinces & territories while listening to "Shakedown" by Bob Seger. no contest. Had all sodding thirteen names by the end of the sixth line of the song. The map's simpler, I guess. When I try to remember the fifty states I do it by starting from Alaska and Hawaii, then going from the West Coast to the East in north-south stripes. Canada? Pssh. Walk west across the map, remember the Maritimes, then back north and walk across the map again.)

... good heavens, it's Godwin's Law. In Taiwan.

Taiwan's opposition has apologised for an election advertisement which compared President Chen Shui-bian to the German dictator, Adolf Hitler.

Dudes, forget it, your campaign is so over. Yeesh.

Because I'm not comfortable with using my own name

for this meme, I figured I'd do it for one of my characters.

( If you call me (blah), for Sergeant Preston. )