quick link dump
(Alt text: A mini candelabra ring with five candles you can actually light on fire)
Just a few links this week, and a thank-you for being here. I hope your Thanksgiving is as tolerable as possible.
An online hearing test that tells me I’m not as deaf as I think I am. (Digg)
An excerpt from Ann Patchett’s new book that might be useful to people with RSI/carpal tunnel? (LitHub)
If Olive and Mabel were elephants. (YouTube)
I want Dennis Rodman’s stylist to dress me. (GQ)
Another good reminder not to judge books by their covers. (Twitter)
I was expecting a lost worse from this overheard in San Francisco roundup. (Sad and Useless)
A luxury bus from DC to NY that I kind of hate myself for wanting to try. (InsideHook)
This dude has impressive animal-noise-making skills, but the faces he makes freak me out. (Boing Boing)
I once watched in horror as my mother’s best friend’s partner tried to build a Thanksgiving table an hour before the actual meal, so this made me laugh: Family saving time this Thanksgiving by making oak dining table day before. (The Onion)
LOL Brown Friday. (News 5 Cleveland)