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I was going to ignore this sort of trivial stuff until I got caught up around here but hey, this quiz was irresistible! My high school years were in the '60s (Class of 1970) so before I even looked at the questions I thought "Mod." The "Radical" result is definitely more the present Me but not who I actually was back then. After looking at the list of possible results it seems to me that, around here at least, "Mod" and "Go-Go Girl" were pretty much one big category allowing for a lot of variety in clothing and music depending on your mood—this fit the majority of high school students. (Very Austin Powers—tacky movie but lots of nostalgia for me!)
High school administrators kept having fits over shorter and shorter miniskirts—all the girls would start the day at school with legal knee-length hemlines but of course every time we took a restroom break, the waistband would be rolled up another inch or two. Of course as things evolved toward hippie-style fashions and we started wearing ankle-length granny dresses instead, the Establishment started griping because our skirts were too long!!! Go figure.
It's become clear that this list of news links is going to be way too long before my usual Saturday posting, so here it is today. Guess that this means that Google News Alerts really work! I found several of the links below before Google did and some that Google doesn't seem to have picked up on at all yet, but many of these I'd never have seen without the News Alerts.
In case you're wondering why I follow all this stuff: When I finally got a computer at home and started getting spammed mercilessly, I decided to fight back. (The computers at school had been set up so you could only use Yahoo or Hotmail for email, newsgroups and chat were totally blocked, so I didn't have a clue until I started using regular email.) So for over 4 years I've been using SpamCop to report spam and I hang out in the SpamCop newsgroups. Quite honestly, a lot of news articles have a lot of wrong information—gee, reporters believing rumors...—and most are old news if you keep up with this topic day-to-day. But for whatever reason, the subject of spam has become interesting to me.
