New Personality Quiz
I spotted this personality quiz over at Scalzi's AOL presence, and, me being me, I couldn't resist checking it out. It appears to be a doorway into some new social-networking site, but it has a unique approach: rather than answering a bunch of text-based questions of dubious applicability, you select your favorites from a series of pictures. The results seemed to be reasonably accurate, at least as close as Internet quizzes, horoscopes, and card readings ever get. The site allows you to make a widget that shows your selections; mine is pasted in below the fold, if you're curious:
The system allows you to enter text to explain your choices; obviously I was too lazy to do so. If you click the "Read my VisualDNA" link, it'll take you to a page that will explain the "easy rider/junkie monkey" stuff. Once you get there, click the thing in the upper center that looks like a book...