Via Miss SB comes the Can you list all your MPs? meme.

• 1973 - 1974 Geoffrey Howe (Con) Reigate
• 1974 - 1976 George Gardiner (Con) Reigate
• 1976 1979: Sir George Evelyn Sinclair (Con) Dorking
• 1979 1983: Keith Wickenden (Con) Dorking
• 1983 - 1992: Kenneth Baker (Con) Mole Valley
• 1992 - 1997: John Patten (Con) Oxford West and Abingdon
• 1997 - 1998: Paul Beresford (Con) Mole Valley
• 1998 - present: Tessa Jowell (Lab) Dulwich and West Norwood

Baker, Patten and Jowell are the ones I was aware of, which was depressing enough...

Via lonemagpie...

Your result for Which fantasy writer are you?...

Ursula K Le Guin

3 High-Brow, -7 Violent, -3 Experimental and 3 Cynical!

Congratulations! You are High-Brow, Peaceful, Traditional and Cynical! These concepts are defined below.

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Via linniekin

You Are An ISTJ
The Duty Fulfiller

You are responsible, reliable, and hardworking - you get the job done.You prefer productive hobbies, like woodworking or knitting. Quiet and serious, you are well prepared for whatever life hands you. You are conservative and down-to-earth. You hardly ever do anything crazy.

In love, you are loyal and honest. If you commit yourself to someone, then you're fully committed. For you, love is something that happens naturally. And you don't need romantic gestures to feel loved.

At work, you remember details well and are happy to take on any responsibility. You would make a great business executive, accountant, or lawyer.

How you see yourself: Decisive, stable, and dependable

When other people don't get you, they see you as: Boring, conservative, and egotistical

What's Your Personality Type?

Last time I did a Myers-Briggs based personality test I came out as ISTP, so this is the same in 3 out of 4 aspects.

Interestingly I recently took part in a team building day at work based on yet another variation on Jung's archetypes. Based on the slightly more in depth analysis (compared to an Internet meme) I came out as something that would be E*T* on the M-B system. So the only thing that everyone agrees on is that I'm Thinking rather than Feeling. Which ain't that much of a surprise

Hey kids, the latest craze is to stack your (toy) animals. Well it keeps us off the streets...

A badly formatted draft of this got posted to the Live Journal mirror by accident, so here's the full thing, only a few week's after everyone else did it.

Via sharikkamur

1. Grab the nearest book.
2. Open the book to page 56.
3. Find the fifth sentence.
4. Post the text of the sentence in your journal along with these instructions.
5. Don't dig for your favorite book, the cool book, or the intellectual one: pick the CLOSEST

The usurer studied Miguel.

Well, that was short. It's from The Coffee Trader by David Liss.

very_true_thing is intense.

You're no-nonsense, to the point, working all the time, looking to die an early death in a bathroom somewhere when your body finally gives out. Way to go.

wanna know your lj's moodring color? enter your user name and hit the button. (discussion thread)

Via lonemagpie

1 minute, 3 seconds

The illustration on the quiz is inaccurate as the real Velociraptor was the size of a dog and not larger than a man. The question of climbing onto the top bunk is interesting as a few paleontologists have suggested that the infamous raptor claws were for climbing rather than for hunting. Do you want me to shut up yet?

From Cocktail Party Physics, via Pharyngula comes another book meme, this one about popular science books. The rules are:

1. Highlight those you've read in full
2. Asterisk those you intend to read
3. Add any additional popular science books you think belong on the list
4. Link back to the great pop-sci book project

Via miss_s_b, a meme to make you feel good, or at least to tell you something you probably already knew.

Via lonemagpie. Below is the Entertainment Weekly's list of 100 Classic Movies of the past 25 years. Bold the ones you've seen, underline the ones you plan to.

Via a few people but most immediately uninvitedcat.

The Big Read reckons that the average adult has only read 6 of the top 100 books they've printed.

1. Look at the list and bold those you have read.
2. Italicize those you intend to read.
3. Underline the books you LOVE.
4. Strike out the books you have no intention of ever reading, or were forced to read at school and hated.
5. Reprint this list in your own blog so we can try and track down these people who've read 6 and force books upon them

1. Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen
2. The Lord of the Rings - JRR Tolkien
3. Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte
4. The Harry Potter Series - JK Rowling
5. To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee
6. The Bible
7. Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte
8. Nineteen Eighty Four - George Orwell
9. His Dark Materials - Philip Pullmam
10. Great Expectations - Charles Dickens
11. Little Women - Louisa M Alcott
12. Tess of the D'Urbervilles - Thomas Hardy
13. Catch 22 - Joseph Heller
14. Complete Works of Shakespeare
15. Rebecca - Daphne Du Maurier
16. The Hobbit - JRR Tolkien
17. Birdsong - Sebastian Faulks
18. Catcher in the Rye - JD Salinger
19. The Time Traveller's Wife - Audrey Niffenegger
20. Middlemarch - George Eliot
21. Gone With The Wind - Margaret Mitchell
22. The Great Gatsby - F Scott Fitzgerald
23. Bleak House - Charles Dickens
24. War and Peace - Leo Tolstoy
25. The Hitch Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy - Douglas Adams
26. Brideshead Revisited - Evelyn Waugh
27. Crime and Punishment - Fyodor Dostoyevsky (I've read about a third, but a long time ago so I really should start again)
28. Grapes of Wrath - John Steinbeck
29. Alice in Wonderland - Lewis Carroll
30. The Wind in the Willows - Kenneth Grahame
31. Anna Karenina - Leo Tolstoy
32. David Copperfield - Charles Dickens
33. Chronicles of Narnia - CS Lewis (I'm sure I've read some other than TLTWATW but I'm not sure how many)
34. Emma - Jane Austen
35. Persuasion - Jane Austen
36. The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe - CS Lewis (Why is this separate to 33?)
37. The Kite Runner - Khaled Hosseini
38. Captain Corelli's Mandolin - Louis De Bernieres
39. Memoirs of a Geisha - Arthur Golden
40. Winnie the Pooh - AA Milne
41. Animal Farm - George Orwell
42. The Da Vinci Code - Dan Brown
43. One Hundred Years of Solitude - Gabriel Garcia Marquez
44. A Prayer for Owen Meaney - John Irving
45. The Woman in White - Wilkie Collins
46. Anne of Green Gables - LM Montgomery
47. Far From The Madding Crowd - Thomas Hardy
48. The Handmaid's Tale - Margaret Atwood
49. Lord of the Flies - William Golding
50. Atonement - Ian McEwan
51. Life of Pi - Yann Martel
52. Dune - Frank Herbert
53. Cold Comfort Farm - Stella Gibbons
54. Sense and Sensibility - Jane Austen
55. A Suitable Boy - Vikram Seth
56. The Shadow of the Wind - Carlos Ruiz Zafon
57. A Tale Of Two Cities - Charles Dickens
58. Brave New World - Aldous Huxley
59. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time - Mark Haddon
60. Love In The Time Of Cholera - Gabriel Garcia Marquez
61. Of Mice and Men - John Steinbeck
62. Lolita - Vladimir Nabokov
63. The Secret History - Donna Tartt
64. The Lovely Bones - Alice Sebold
65. Count of Monte Cristo - Alexandre Dumas
66. On The Road - Jack Kerouac
67. Jude the Obscure - Thomas Hardy
68. Bridget Jones's Diary - Helen Fielding
69. Midnight's Children - Salman Rushdie
70. Moby Dick - Herman Melville
71. Oliver Twist - Charles Dickens
72. Dracula - Bram Stoker
73. The Secret Garden - Frances Hodgson Burnett
74. Notes From A Small Island - Bill Bryson
75. Ulysses - James Joyce
76. The Bell Jar - Sylvia Plath
77. Swallows and Amazons - Arthur Ransome
78. Germinal - Emile Zola
79. Vanity Fair - William Makepeace Thackeray
80. Possession - AS Byatt
81. A Christmas Carol - Charles Dickens
82. Cloud Atlas - David Mitchell
83. The Color Purple - Alice Walker
84. The Remains of the Day - Kazuo Ishiguro
85. Madame Bovary - Gustave Flaubert
86. A Fine Balance - Rohinton Mistry
87. Charlotte's Web - EB White
88. The Five People You Meet In Heaven - Mitch Albom
89. Adventures of Sherlock Holmes - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
90. The Faraway Tree Collection - Enid Blyton
91. Heart of Darkness - Joseph Conrad
92. The Little Prince - Antoine De Saint-Exupery
93. The Wasp Factory - Iain Banks
94. Watership Down - Richard Adams
95. A Confederacy of Dunces - John Kennedy Toole
96. A Town Like Alice - Nevil Shute
97. The Three Musketeers - Alexandre Dumas
98. Hamlet - William Shakespeare
99. Charlie and the Chocolate Factory - Roald Dahl
100. Les Miserables - Victor Hugo

ObHTML: I managed to resist the temptation to add <cite> tags to every title. If I had an editor open with better RegEx support...

Via ffutures

The following is a list of Hugo, Nebula and World Fantasy Award winning novels (not including retro-Hugos)
Bold the ones you've finished
Italicise the ones you've started but not finished
Underline the ones were you've seen the film/tv show

Via pesky33.

The Music Intelligence Quiz

Your final score was 132/180

Mix-Tape Master (109-144 points)

You are a music evangelist: the person in your network of friends who always has the coolest new song, the one whose iPod gets picked to DJ every party. You understand the art of the segue, how the key to the best mix-tape isn't just the songs you pick, but how they interlock with each other. You also know who the up-and-coming acts are and are quick to recognise where their influences lie and whether they will make it big. You work hard at the pursuit of this knowledge, scouring music blogs, magazines and record stores. Most importantly, you are generous with your passion - and your friends should be very, very grateful. Still, it's always good to get new inspiration for your latest mix

Or... I'm just good at trivia.

85% Dennis Kucinich
82% Chris Dodd
82% Barack Obama
81% Mike Gravel
80% Joe Biden
79% Hillary Clinton
79% Bill Richardson
78% John Edwards
38% Rudy Giuliani
29% John McCain
25% Ron Paul
25% Mitt Romney
21% Mike Huckabee
16% Tom Tancredo
11% Fred Thompson

2008 Presidential Candidate Matching Quiz

Your Score: The Cat

You scored 67% domestic, 21% gregarious, 25% trickster, and 76% intellect!

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The Animal Archetype Test written by crumpetsfortea

Via miss_newham

1. Go to the Wikipedia home page and click random article. That is your band's name.
2. Click random article again; that is your album name.
3. Click random article 15 more times; those are the tracks on your album.

My band is called Administrative Template and our album is List of QI episodes.

• Zoe Newman
• La Parra de las Vegas
• Steroid Maximus
• List of schools in Wales
• Your Possible Pasts
• USS Boston (1799)
• Canton of Excideuil
• Follow Me
• De Tomaso Mangusta
• Dimissorial Letters
• Jennifer Jayne
• Maintal
• Hermann Haken
• Thameslink (train operating company)
• Parc Abbey Bible

Your Punk Band Name Is...

The Drunk Dinosaur

What's Your Punk Band Name?

Via just about everyone. The 106 books most often tagged as unread on LibraryThing. Bold the ones you've read. Add an asterisk to the ones you've read more than once. Italicise the ones you've started but not finished. Strikethrough the ones you hated. Underline the ones on your "to read" list.

Conclusions? I'm way behind on my Neal Stephenson reading, and I haven't read many 'classics' but nor have a lot of other people.