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| Friday, March 24, 2006 |
Today: links from others, plus some bonus material. Thanks, everyone!
From Dr. Matt the Commenter, aka Super Slow Man: Who Wants to Be a Superhero? This sounds a little like Watchmen gone horribly wrong...
From Zazoo: Northside is the hip place to be, once again. And it's getting better all the time!
From Bunny: Arcade flyers of the past! Some of these are completely bizarre.
Also via Bunny: Meet Cleaver Theatre is going to Cinema Wasteland next weekend, and we have the promo video which will be showing at our booth (table? corner?) to prove it.
More fun with YouTube: remember the Spike Jonze commercial for Levi's with "Tainted Love"? No? Well, here's your chance to discover it. This never fails to crack me up.
Special bonus site: the amazing Stewardess Uniform Collection. Ooooh. Ahhhh.
Have a spiffy weekend, everyone. See you Monday.
Jinnet @
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| Thursday, March 23, 2006 |
Librarian Alert! According to a rumor, Jeopardy! is looking for librarians to be contestants. The application page doesn't mention anything on this matter, but perhaps librarians have an inside edge on the competition. So go apply and do us proud! (Being front and center on a game show, with no puppets or costumes to hide behind, would be my own personal hell. So I will only encourage from the sidelines.)
As part of Women's History Month, I bring you the American Women Through Time site, which is very detailed and quite cool.
Copyright issues are dull. How to make them more exciting? Put them in comic form! Hey, it works for me, at any rate. They should do a crossover with Rex Libris sometime.
Visually-based search engines are the new rage, a la Grokker. The Visual Complexity site shows a myriad of different ways to display complex sets. Think of it as something akin to the internet of Cowboy Bebop, if that helps any.
The National Archives has a repository of CIA films, some of which are stranger than others. (Animal Farm?) I am sort of intrigued by the possibilities of what could be going on in 1967's Pilots in Pajamas.
The law librarians at the University of Dayton have a very cool weblog with a very cool name: Vox Bibliothecae. Hooray for weblogging law librarians!
Tomorrow: links from others.
Jinnet @
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| Wednesday, March 22, 2006 |
Today: weird stuff from around (and beyond) the world.
In Georgia, there's a time capsule from 1940...that isn't to be opened until the year 8113. I wonder if there'll even be a Georgia at that time. (Found on the always fascinating Damn Interesting, which needs to go on the sidebar link list over there; the list is out of date, I know.)
Meanwhile, in Pennsylvania, a fire has been burning underground for over fifty years, destroying the town above. I'm thinking the spooky librarians may go on a road trip soon to check this out.
In Africa, a new ocean is forming. Wow.
This just in: the moon affects radon levels in homes, apparently. I think that perhaps we don't give the moon enough credit.
Some ad campaigns are more fun than others. Take the "it's no fun being dead" concept, for example. You can click all over the website for various fun things. I especially like the bits of dead people trying to play frisbee and whatnot.
Goths may object to the "no fun being dead" idea, but it's okay: the goths are going to inherit the earth after all! Woohoo! Crank up the Sisters of Mercy, fellow gothy types!
Jinnet @
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| Tuesday, March 21, 2006 |
Today, we have AWESOME links. Improve your icky, icy day!
First off:
Behold, the Monster Name Decoder. You can even pick your own monster. (Mine is a banshee. I like banshees.)
A brilliant idea for reality shows: pre-pixelated clothing designs! Ha!
Fantastic frog links: if you have not seen the Muppet Matrix yet, oh my god, you should. I especially like Rowlf as Morpheus. If you like your frogs smaller and more robotic, check out the excellent adventure of Roomba Frogger. You know MIT is going to have some bizarre prank soon involving something like this.
Along the same real-life game thread as Frogger with Roombas, Scotland Yard (aka Mind the Detective) combines the Scotland Yard board game with the Toronto Transit System to create wonderful chaos. Next game is in July, evidently.
And finally, from the always-cool Baby Name Wizard, check out the map of popular names in your region. I thought the Ohio names were a little off, but then I looked at Kentucky and they were pretty much spot-on. I guess southern Ohio gets influenced by Kentucky more often than the reverse, at least in naming conventions.
Jinnet @
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| Monday, March 20, 2006 |
Happy spring to everyone, from a city that's supposed to get four inches of snow tonight. Woohoo. On to visual arts!
Penmanship: I am so going to enter the World Handwriting Contest. Seriously, I am. Wish me luck.
Architecture: A new set of apartments in Tokyo are built with the idea that people should be uncomfortable, so they don't settle into a rut. Photos of the modular-looking buildings are on the main site of "Reversible Destiny." Interesting concept...
Photography: If you join the Pirate Rubber Duckie pool on Flickr, the Pirate Rubber Duckie will visit you eventually! Then you must photograph the adventures you have with him, and send him on his way. Duckies get all the fun.
Costume design: The Baseball Hall of Fame has an exhibit on baseball uniforms called "Dressed to the Nines." Hee.
Just plain cool art: Behold the amazing lenticular stamps, which put the holographic pictures of old to shame! The speed skater ones are especially cool.
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