Referrandom

Recently I got a search engine hit from someone looking for the words "tevatron fried raccoon". Which is an intriguing combination, you have to admit, especially when said visitor is coming from a certain Geneva-based high-energy physics center which will remain nameless. I have to wonder what sparked that search. Perhaps there've been wildlife incidents at Fermilab, either funny or tragic, depending on whether you're the raccoon or not. Or perhaps someone's trying to dig up dirt on their Illinois-based rivals so they can talk trash at the next conference. Possibly it's all a cultural misunderstanding of some kind.

Or maybe someone's looking for recipes. If that's the case, I'm afraid I don't have any handy. I imagine that if you want to deep-fry something, the simplest approach would be to fill your local accelerator's beam dump with peanut oil instead of water, and then proceed more or less as you would with a regular deep fryer. And serve with lots and lots of alcohol. But a word of caution: Some years ago when I lived in the Deep South, I knew a guy who'd tried raccoon and was willing to admit it. He told me that raccoon tastes the way a wet dog smells. Which to me sounds rather unappetizing. You can blast it with all the relativistic particles you want, and it's still not going to taste any better.

On a less exotic note, I've also got another batch of (mostly) referrer pages, primarily from people Blogspot happened to randomly send my way via the magic "Next Blog" button. As usual, the ones I especially liked are in bold.

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• Northwest Observer. Whoever was dinking aroung with the Magic Button ended up with two NW blogs in a row. Must've thought it was a conspiracy or something. Pseudorandomness looks like that sometimes. Some great photos here.
  
• at the tip of my tongue. Don't miss a recent post with some cute cat photos.
  
• The Whiskey River Entertainment Complex Blog, from a comedy club in Macon, GA.
  
• twisted thoughts within my four brick walls
  
• iisha's thoughts
  
• no notes. Your "St. James Infirmary" Headquarters, and much more.
  
• i'll do graffiti if you sing to me in french, a.k.a. Sisyphean Task.
  
• thissmallplanet - politics, society, and culture in India.
  
• Acuarela - art, design, typography
  
• Sojourns on the Way Home, currently in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia.
  
• Global Disaster A left-wing Turkish blog. I don't speak a word of Turkish, but it's easy to tell from the links and images.
  
• Midi Cricket Club. Because people do play cricket in France.
  
• funny pictures2
  
• Hollywood Thoughts
  
• It Might Have Been
  
• Ya te digo...
  
• Illinoize, covering state and local politics in Illinois.
  
• ex-millennial girl
  
• Busted
  
• Alerta de Nuevas Publicaciones Periódicas Biblioteca UMAR Campus Huatulco
  
• jRIEGERT:blog
  
• Rollertrain
  
• Bizarre indrukken en incoherente bezigheden. In Flemish.
  
• My Blog je Math. In Italian.
  
• :: RAT ::, the blog of a robotics class in Malaysia.
  
• Blog-Na. In bold because the top post right now is about hockey.
  
• Dreamsalon
  
• munnki. Interesting posts about travel in SE Asia, among other things.
  
• Swim Suit Models.
  
• Ryan Miller Online A great blog out of Vancouver BC. Not by the Buffalo Sabres goalie, though. (I think.)
  
• The Book Of, from which I've learned that someone is writing mystery novels featuring Jorge Luis Borges as the detective. (Borges and the Eternal Orangutans, by Luis Fernando Verissimo). Hmm. I may need to look into this.
  
• Cotterville, where I found the penguins-with-sweaters picture (which links to an SLC Tribune story).
  
• Zippy Zigzaga. Photo blog from .nl. I linked to a post from here in a post around Easter or so.
  
• The blog of Tobias Mathijsen, also from .nl, mostly about astronauts, I think.
  
• My Film reviews. Perhaps you'll like this if you don't enjoy my film reviews.
  
• nidhi The blog of a law student in India who wants to be a celebrity. I think.
  
• Yarbrough's Articles. All about poker.
  
• Elli's Diary. Possibly NSFW.
  
• Boob-u-Mentary. Definitely NSFW.
  
• Tales from the Boobie Bar. Also definitely NSFW. A lot of these showing up lately, for whatever reason.
  
• My rants and raves. Actually not a lot of ranting or raving, but several "Testing 1-2-3" messages if you're into that sort of thing.
  
• fome espera. The little grim reaper graphic in the corner is rather amusing.
  
• Straight Flushing, all about the NY Mets, hence the name.
  
• Edwards' words
  
• Scenteur7, "The Scented World from a Man's Perspective". Fascinating.
  
• Daughters of Yaz, a site for female Red Sox fans.
  
• Flower Mound Road. You wouldn't think that life in suburban Houston would be interesting, but it is, or at least the author here makes it interesting.
  
• Nossa Vida em Paris. A travel blog about Paris, in Portuguese, which I don't speak a single word of. But there are many beautiful pics of the city, plus others of a large orange cat.
  
• Prisoner of Words Unsaid
  
• will yu save mee?