What's your information fetish?

[Msterbeau]

I have this thing for reading about copyright and related topics. Partly because it affects me as an artist/photographer, but partly because... well... I just like to read about it. I'm somewhat that way about Mac-related info too.

What topic/info do you have a "fetish" for?

[Oh_My_Goth]

I read soap and shampoo bottles while I shower.....

I don't know why, I just always have.....

[Head Wreck]

random things.

i'll have an evening of "lets read about such and such a species of animal" and the next could be migration from one workstation to another with custom dictionarys and autocomplete entries

[creatureofthenyte]

My info fetish is quite random in nature.

I read labels on bottles.

I look up words in the dictionary.

I google stuff.

[Nightgaunt]

I read soap and shampoo bottles while I shower.....

I don't know why, I just always have.....

Heh. I do that too.

I devour anything that's esoteric or occult. I don't know why, but that kind of subject matter has fascinated me since I was a child.

[Rev.Reverence]

Heh. I do that too.

I devour anything that's esoteric or occult. I don't know why, but that kind of subject matter has fascinated me since I was a child.

+^{as many as you'll let me count me as}

This goes for ANY spiritual path as well.

WH40K

Some times other role playing games...even if I'm probably not going to play.

[jynxxxedangel]

Whatever happens to tickle my fancy at the particular moment.

Nothing is safe from my inquiring mind.

I absorb random information like the thirsty sand in the desert sucks up water.

[Rev.Reverence]

Oh yes...consPiracy theorys

[Gaf The Horse With Tears]

Everything in front of me.

[Rev.Reverence]

Everything in front of me.

Spoken like a Gnostic...

[GothicRavenGoddess (3)]

i LOVE to read.

shampoo/conditioner bottles

lables on my makeup

almost every new article posted here (news)

any book that strikes my fancy.

my own poetry

think that covers it..

[sass_in_the_pants]

Regarding reading shampoo bottles - why does it always say to wash twice? What nonsense! If you were actually a GOOD shampoo, I wouldn't need to wash twice, now would I?

I like to look up hometown papers of places I used to live and read the obituaries. It's important to make sure that I am not dead.

All sorts of spiritual gobbledey-gook.

And celebrity trash magazines. I go bananas for those.

[freydis]

Forensic and medical data.

I'm attempting to write crime fiction. ;P

My brain is an enormous dustbin....i collect little tidbits, and you never know what gets remembered...

[Raev]

I watch around 10 documentaries a week, on various subjects. I usually just pick something I don't know much about, then spend a week watching documentaries on it followed by encyclopedia articles. If I then am interested in the subject, I go book shopping.

[Miranda]

True-Crime, Knives, Forensics, Tanks, Guns, World Wars especially WWII, both sides, Torture Methods through the Ages and the Paranormal. Not necessarily in that order.

[Burrich1]

I read just about everything on yahoo news under the space and astronomy section.

When I was a kid, I use to read the same cereal boxes over and over every morning. Thinking back, it was a little demented.

[phee]

Besides books and the obvious...

When in a resteraunt, I usually read every last peace of information at the table, the desert menu, the kids menu, the placematts, etc....

[hunhee]

I can't read!!

[MyViolentMachine]

I'll have times where i get some topic stuck in my head and i will go read up o nit on wiki which often has me branching off to other topics that catch my interest. Many hours have been lost...

[Ice Queen (1)]

I like to examine the male body, very closely, and do experiments, to see how it reacts to certain stimuli.

[pomba gira]

Anything about the quirkier aspects of history. For example, the effects that diseases, food, sex, etc. have had on human history. Or the history of specific things, their use by people, and/or attitudes toward them: mirrors, burial alive, breasts, and table manners to name a few that are on my shelves right now.

I am also fascinated by "freaks" or, more politely, "human oddities" or "prodigies" (although the old time circus freaks considered "freaks" a title of honor). Chang & Eng, Frank Lentini, Daisy & Violet Hilton, Zip the Pinhead, Myrtle Corbin, Betty Lou Williams, Grace McDaniel, the Tocci brothers and many more... I'll read anything I can find on them and the old-time circus culture they lived in. Oh yeah, I pretty much know Todd Browning's Freaks (a truly amazing film that pretty much destroyed his career- definitely a must-see) line-for-line, too. How sad is that.

[sass_in_the_pants]

Anything about the quirkier aspects of history. For example, the effects that diseases, food, sex, etc. have had on human history. Or the history of specific things, their use by people, and/or attitudes toward them: mirrors, burial alive, breasts, and table manners to name a few that are on my shelves right now.

I am also fascinated by "freaks" or, more politely, "human oddities" or "prodigies" (although the old time circus freaks considered "freaks" a title of honor). Chang & Eng, Frank Lentini, Daisy & Violet Hilton, Zip the Pinhead, Myrtle Corbin, Betty Lou Williams, Grace McDaniel, the Tocci brothers and many more... I'll read anything I can find on them and the old-time circus culture they lived in. Oh yeah, I pretty much know Todd Browning's Freaks (a truly amazing film that pretty much destroyed his career- definitely a must-see) line-for-line, too. How sad is that.

YOu might be interested to know that greenfield village is having an exhibit on chocolate and it's role in history.

[Homicidalheathen]

Geek

Music equipment mags mostly stuff about sequencers

I have this thing for reading about copyright and related topics. Partly because it affects me as an artist/photographer, but partly because... well... I just like to read about it. I'm somewhat that way about Mac-related info too.

What topic/info do you have a "fetish" for?

[jynxxxedangel]

I have a compulsion to photograph arachnids, insects, and plants I have never seen before, and identify the species using the internet. This is why I always have a tape measure and camera handy. Then, after all photos are labeled properly, I put them into their respective photo files, which I have broken down into a system of biological taxonomy. Yes, I am a bit eccentric.

I also tend to keep familiar species of invertebrates for a few days or weeks to observe their behaviors, if I have a free "room" (kritter keeper) and proper diet handy. There's always room at my "Crawl Inn" for new specimens. *giggles*

Inverts and horticulture are my main information fetishes, but as I said, NOTHING is safe.

[Msterbeau]

When people mention something I'm not familiar with - I go out and dig up info on it. Immediately.