Spent a gorgeous President's Day weekend in Yosemite. The weather was perfect, and we practically had the whole valley to ourselves. Winter is definitely the time to go! Incidentally, I finally caved and got a Netflix account after getting back. I took advantage of the streaming video feature and saw a lot of old films that I'd always been meaning to rent. One of these movies was The Shining, which I'm glad I watched after getting back. Coincidentally, the interiors of the Overlook were based on Yosemite's Ahwahnee Hotel.

I'm also glad I read this after the trip. The Enigma of Amigara Fault is a short manga about mysterious holes that appear in a cliff after an earthquake. The shape of each one perfectly matches the outline of a specific individual who is then drawn to the hole and compelled to enter. The idea is so disturbingly creepy that it's worth looking over the weak ending.

Time Guardians. These would go well with a few chicken wire ghosts.

Hedgehog grater. Hedgehog paperclip holder.

Pictures of the abandoned Detroit School Book Depository.

Drawings of weird letter-shaped rooms. Here's the whole neighborhood.

1000 villagers on an island, 900 with brown eyes, 100 with blue. Anyone who learns their own eye color must commit suicide. One day, an outsider visits the island and mentions to the entire tribe that some of them have blue eyes. What happens? The answer is that 100 days later all the blue-eyed villagers commit suicide. Wikipedia also weighs in.

Drivey is a minimalist driving simulator that makes a great screen saver. Another one of my favorites is Holding Pattern, which shows the landscape drifting by through an airplane window. I wish they hadn't put pictures of people in some of the views though. Given the choice, I'm sure that most people would rather not have to look over someone's lap to see outside the plane.