Bag o' Links: The Long Lost Edition. In which I close a crap ton of tabs, links, notes, and et cetera...

BLOT: (12 Sep 2011 - 01:08:19 PM)

Bag o' Links: The Long Lost Edition. In which I close a crap ton of tabs, links, notes, and et cetera...

I'm the kind of guy who sees a link or two I think might be worth posting and I'll bookmark it, which nowadays means I drag it to my Firefox bookmarks toolbar thing, which nowadays has so many links that it ends with a pair of arrows that if I click it shows the links that have been pushed off the page, which nowadays is so long that when I click it I often have to scroll up and down it to see all the links. Some are so old I'm not even sure of the context any more. What's the solution? Let's get these long lost links out into the wild, with fresh commentary and jokes to accomplish. *takes deep breath* Aaaannnnnddd....start!

• Let's start with Ben Hammersley's speech to the IAAC. Lots of bits about innovation and the future, includes a quote from William Gibson: "The future is here, it is just not evenly distributed."
• And if you don't like the future but adore the past, but still like sciencey things, how about this: LIFE's series of photographs showing old science labs?
• And if you are much more of a "the past and the future are the same" kind of person, here is a long list of quotes, compiled by The Economist, from various sources and times but always involving old geezers saying "KIDS THESE DAYS" and shaking their geezer fists
• Farmer's Market Farmers complain about a glut of farmer's market farmers hurting sales. The inner dystopian in me hopes this ends with bloodshed and some massive Farmer's War, complete with flaming cows and smart carrots.
• Autumn is just a few days away. Take a look at this bookmark I made nearly a year ago: 30+ Mind Blowing Fall Photos for This Autumn.
• And if you are much more of a stay inside type, and Autumn is just another word for "The Thing Around Halloween", here's a game that I hear is fun but haven't gotten a chance to play, yet: Cthulhu Gloom.
• Are we talking about things inspired by Lovecraft? How about some Ramsey Campbell love? Also, do you have about £39.99 to spot me?
• Apparently John Hodgman has a podcast, BoingBoing talked about it [briefly], and what's better, people talk about a few of their own favorite podcasts. Things I can add to my podcasts feed only to get hopelessly behind on later.

• I...have no idea what I bookmarked this YouTube vid that seems to be a Spanish-language advertisement for a spa...including a shot of some sort of sucker things being applied to a woman's behind. That last bit may have been why, but seriously...I have no idea.
• I'm having flashbacks to a certain World Cup match between The USA and Ghana.
• Webcomic about a homeschooled kid entering public school for the first time: Friends With Boys.

• I scoff at your moronic interpretation of hoosegow architecture! [Note: a page of quotes, mostly good ones, from Brisco County, Jr. Most are better in voice, but if you try real hard to hear Bruce Campbell's delivery, you should make do just fine...]

Ok, whew. This is going on bit. I'm going to drop just 10 or 11 more from the stack and then, in a week or so, maybe have another one of these.

• Smarthistory.org is a free and open, not-for-profit, art history textbook. We use multimedia to deliver unscripted conversations between art historians about the history of art.
• I may have posted this before, and snarky literary humor is always dangerous because much of it carries a flavor of loud sniffings and some sort of self-assertion that its not your fault that you didn't like the book, old words just suck [and uh wheres the dragons duh?], but I know I bookmarked it for the James Joyce joke and so I'll share it again: More Accurate Titles for This Semester's Reading List.
• Do you like music so loud that it vibrates your nipple rings and has album covers you think you might like to get as a tattoo? Shinto Records. I have a couple of their sample records...and yes I may have gotten one of them just for the cover art [see statement above].
• One of the artists I found through that sampler and still listen to kind of often: Life's Decay. French, nice sort of soft dark music.

• Remember how "Blink" brought us the Weeping Angels and that was creepy as poo? And Sally Sparrow and she was cute/hot in all the right ways? Well here is the original "Blink" and Sally is no longer legal, the Doctor is no longer The Tenth, and it tends to be a whole lot less creepy. Still, a piece of Who history, since I'm pretty sure this is Moffat's first writing for Who.
• Kai Roberts's essay On the respective world views of M.R. James and S.T. Joshi. Roberts takes exception with Joshi claiming that James had no inherent worldview in his stories, and seeks to point out moments where one bubbles forth.
• I bookmarked this article about twin sisters who do just about everything while close together, from jobs to being the Valedictorian and Salutatorian. I don't know why. Maybe I was going to make a joke about "there are not many things that one has done without the other" and be a total creeper? Maybe I was going to joke about the Hitchcockian potential with "But I was the Valedictorian, why are you taking my identity?!" or the strange but sweetly endearing weirdness of "The 18-year-old identical twins joined the same clubs, played on the same sports teams, conducted the same volunteer work and even wore identical gowns and hairstyles to their senior prom...[and it seems they are going to college together, too]" Maybe I was just reminded of twins I knew in high school that looked almost just like that and were really close but for some reason I had a crush on one but not the other.
• A list of the carbon footprint of various activities. I don't actually remember reading this article, but I think I might have found while looking up the bit about books, because for a class [and personal research], I remember trying to assess which was really a more sustainable method of reading: pbooks or ebooks. Don't remember the outcome of that.
• Ok, ok...let's vote for the final link of this post. Do you want Cracked's article on MORE of the most disturbing sex toys [see: disposable canned va-jay-jay], BelleChere's cosplay as a real life Larry Elmore character [note: technically Red Sonja] [note: busty redhead in skimpy metal armor in the snow, your mileage may vary... but this also makes a fine opportunity to leave this here: women fighters in reasonable armor], or the creepy ass happenings when you slow down an Olsen Twins song about giving them pizza [and I hate to bring out the race card, but notice who they gave the joy of asking for fried chicken...]

Yes that was me cheating there at the end. Yes, I laughed at my own joke. Yes, I suck. Good day...

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