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There is a discussion over at io9 about Joss Whedon and myths about him. Myths About Joss Whedon (That Keep Non-Whedonistas Away)/a>

the myths that are refuted are:

1. His work is all twee, and everybody wears silly hats all the time
2. He always kills off your favorite character
3. He's all about 1990s "girl power" feminism
4. He only likes mentally unstable girls
5. All of his characters banter, all the time
6. There's such a thing as the "Whedonverse" that you need to understand all of
7. Every Joss project (except Avengers) is automatically doomed. DOOMED!

Are those really the myths that stop people from watching his work? I was kind of surprised. I did notice another myth in the comments - that all Whedon's fans are insane. Well... just the best ones!

I can't properly manage everything I ever had accounts for, and yet I keep getting into the new stuff.

On one hand, I started using my Facebook account more, because a lot of my friends are there regularly, and I love keeping in touch with them if only through liking pictures of their kids. How come so many of my friends are so far away? And I am so painfully bad at making new ones...

On the other hand, I was pressured into joining Google+, so if you want to bear my company there (or anywhere else), tell me!

Got myself Tumblr and Pinterest, (am avrelia there, too), and I even had an idea why I wanted to have them, but now I feel lost and unsure what to do with them and when.

I love Goodreads, but rarely go there.

Twitter gets mostly my gardening updates. They are very exciting. (My cherry tomatoes are awesome! My beefsteak tomatoes are not.)

and we are not yet counting all the Russian stuff...

in other news, I am now taking Fantasy and Science Fiction course at coursera.org, even though I have too many books to read RIGHT NOW as it is. but I want to have to write essays about fun stuff... next up: dismemberment in Grimms' fairytales and its educational value.

Today's reading of io9 brought several awesome artwork links that I have to share:





Guess your pop culture heroes by their paper cut silhouettes here: Paper cuts by Olly Moss

Fantastic landscapes by Inga Nielsen

And finally, Firefly crew as Muppets and as Rescue Rangers.

If you still amused or confused.

Here are two infographics: the pretty one and the table one

but there are things that annoy me to no end. Maybe it is a cautionary tale about dangers of random browsing of the Internets: don't stray from the path, there might be idiots...

I went to Alternative history forums (alternativehistory.com, I believe - don't want to dig up a link) following a link to some maps of zombie apocalypse. I have nothing against a good zombie apocalypse, as long as it doesn't really happen of course.

After seeing rather inventive maps I wanted to see what else is there, and of course, posts with words "Russian" in the name do tend attract my attention. So I clicked.

People in that particular post discussed an amusing hypothesis: what if in 2012 all ethnic Russians all die?

Is it weird that I am having serious problems with this idea? I kind of want to wash it off my brain, but maybe I am overly sensitive, and amusing possibility of disappearance of nations and ethnicities is a fun intellectual pastime? Or I shouldn't judge people, because they don't mean it seriously? Or who would miss Russians anyway, they are all evil?

I am a boring stuck up with no sense fun...

I love reading http://jezebel.com/. They find the best stuff.

This is my favourite find of the day:

http://jezebel.com/5344988/birthers-want-to-see-obamas-penis

I am all weirded out by the thought process of birthers.

I've come to the conclusion that I might want to use one of the book-themed social sites to organize my library and post and read reviews maybe.

So far I understand that I have to choose between goodreads and Shelfari. I know some of you use one or the other, or maybe both. Do you have any preferences? Which would you recommend? Pro et contra?

I know Library Thing is supposed to be good, but I don't feel like paying for the service at the moment. One problem that I have is that half of my library is in Russian, and none of these sites seem to be able to help with organizing books in Russian. Of course, there are Russian analogues, but they cannot help me with English library...

and I seem to be drowning in Web 2.0, but that is completely different problem...