Another interesting poll --

Cinema's Sexiest Vampire

Oh thank goodness, Catherine Deneuve is winning. But clearly the poll is still wrong, because it doesn't list David Bowie.

He started it:

Speaking to German magazine TV Spielfilm, Hasselhoff said in 1989, the year the wall fell, he had helped reunite the country by singing his song 'Looking for Freedom' among millions of German fans at the Brandenburg Gate in Berlin.

He said he felt he had moved people on both sides of the wall, although he admitted hardly any of the East Germans could speak English. He said: "I find it a bit sad that there is no photo of me hanging on the walls in the Berlin Museum at Check-Point Charlie.

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Though apparently, if you can decipher the drunken rambling, he walks it back here a few weeks ago? Haven't watched the vid.

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I always wonder about the validity of my answer to the ER question to "Do you drink or smoke?" "Casually and no." Except casual drinking? I can go months without a drop. What is casual drinking? I only know not drinking and can imagine heavy drinking. A glass or two of wine with dinner three times a week--that's still casual, right? Getting hammered once every three months (still not me) is casual?

Robert Pattinson is doing entirely too well in that vampire poll. What's the sparkly tween version of slashdotting? Because they can't really be reading Time on their own.

What do people consider "normal" drinking on a daily basis? The DH will have a beer or a finger of scotch after dinner several nights a week and that's it. I will have a drink at parties a few times a year but I am planning to add a glass of red wine at dinner. To me, teetotaller that I am, more than a couple of glasses of wine or one cocktail each day seems like a lot, but I know lots of people drink more than that.

This would make a cool poster: Epic Disney/Marvel mashup

Getting hammered once every three months (still not me) is casual?

That might be getting into the realm of binge drinking, depending on how hammered. Might be medically relevant, I'd guess.

What is casual drinking? I only know not drinking and can imagine heavy drinking. A glass or two of wine with dinner three times a week--that's still casual, right?

I would call that regular drinking, but I'm not sure whether that takes it out of the realm of casual or not. It's certainly not heavy drinking.

What is casual drinking? I only know not drinking and can imagine heavy drinking. A glass or two of wine with dinner three times a week--that's still casual, right?

I wonder the same thing. In my world, a small glass of absinthe three nights a week is casual drinking, but I don't know if the rest of the world would feel the same way.

I would call that regular drinking, but I'm not sure whether that takes it out of the realm of casual or not. It's certainly not heavy drinking.

That sounds right to me.

Diagram of Geek Culture

Neatorama sez:

Rather than a formal taxonomy, this diagram by Ibrahim Evsan divides geek culture into activities, obsessions, social communities, terms, idols, and types. Its primary flaw is that it does not take cross-breeding into account.