Sherbet with no R-tificial Ingredients--> A.Word.A.Day on wordsmith.org

I found this interesting article on MSN Encarta on the confusion between 'sherbet' and 'sherbert'

http://encarta.msn.com/encnet/Features/Columns/?article=AnuSherbet&GT1=27004

which then linked over to Wordsmith.org, which thoughtfully provides a word-of-the-day with definition, etymology, and usage.

http://wordsmith.org/words/today.html

Very useful and amusing indeed.

movie recommendation: Waterboys

'Waterboys' is a Japanese movie that came out a quite few years ago; it had been on tv, channel 18, but I'd never gotten to see it. However, I recently found it on crunchyroll, and it's an amazing movie, :]

Based on a true story, Waterboys is a growing-up comedy of a rag-tag groups of five boys, considered 'losers' at their school, who must put on a synchronized swimming presentation (typically a girls' sports activity) for their school festival by the end of summer. The problem is, only one of them has actually seen a synchronized swimming performance, none of them are synchronized, and one doesn't even know how to swim. Worse yet, they have no teacher: the one who had originally been assigned is pregnant, and the one they end up using is a crotchety old man who works at SeaWorld and whose knowledge of synchronized swimming extends only to dolphins. Watch to see how this situation turns out!

Waterboys (2001), written and directed by Shinobu Yaguchi
via crunchyroll: http://www.crunchyroll.com/media-64319/Water-Boys-Movie-Full-Version.html

links to check out : allrecipes.com

A great site for all recipes, as the name implies. The recipes vary by type, difficulty, and category, and the reviews posted by other users are often very helpful in determining popularity, ease, and taste; often, people will chime in with their own opinions on how to modify or improve upon the recipe.

Easy to use and highly recommended by K, M, B, and V, all of whom are fantastic cooks, so be sure to check it out for dinner ideas like I do, :)

http://allrecipes.com/

links to check out : Daily Pets

A British site for photos of cute animals; purports to update daily, but I guess they haven't been receiving as many submissions lately; good for a glance-through of cute animals, though, :]

http://dailypets.co.uk/

links to check out : Nathan Sawaya, Brick Artist

And while I'm on it, another great link, this one to Nathan Sawaya, the "brick artist", who makes sculptures out of Legos. His subjects are sometimes whimsical, sometimes mundane, often amazing, and never dull.

Check it out!

http://brickartist.com/

links to check out : Cocktail Party Physics

http://twistedphysics.typepad.com/

This is a great website, especially for those of us who are interested in physics, but can't be bothered to actually sit through and feel abysmally dumb in a physics lecture.

Includes nerdy physics cocktail recipes!