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[sigma7]

gloomchen's officially launched Nihilism and Cupcakes, also available for your LJ RSSing needs at nihilismcupcakz. If you're into fitness/weight-loss/exercise/nutrition blogging filtered through a mindset that's realistic and positive but not necessarily pinky-pinkeriffic, give it a shot.

Via roseneko, it turns out the "I Write Like" meme is probably just a SEO scam, feeding off viral links to shill to budding authors. Which means everyone perched on ledges because their writing's been scientifically analyzed to be reminiscent of Dan Brown can calm back down. Not that we're expecting copy-n-paste memes to have AI or uncanny insight to begin with, I hope, but the idea could've been fun if...implemented better...or implemented at all, really.

If you missed that meme altogether, then you probably missed the >200 Old Spice response videos. Drink them in. That's how you market yourself via the Internet. My three keepers: 12755JDH ("In case, as your name suggests, you actually are a robot...."), George Stephanopolous ("Monocle smile!") and Anonymous ("The fish again"), but they're all fun. And don't miss the techno remix.

In other news, Scott Pilgrim's Finest Hour hits shelves on Tuesday (hint: it's like Deathly Hallows, only with more Super Mario references), and the movie's only a month away. So I've been occupying myself by rewatching the first, second and international trailers. And the video game trailer. And the MTV Video Awards clip. And the Look Inside clip. And the avatar-maker (just can't quite get my hair right). Simple mind, simple pleasures.