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Links for Friday May 22nd 2015

Cheeky Nando’s, or, what went wrong? | Idiot Joy Showland
Just read it. Read it, and understand the reality of Nandos. The reality of England in the 21st Century.
Redrawing Taylor Swift – Shake it Off Rotoscoped – YouTube
49 University of Newcastle Australia animation students were each given 52 frames of Taylor Swift's Shake it Off music video to rotoscope in their own style, and the resulting works were stitched back together to make this. The original video is a lot of fun, but there's moment of absolute magic in this.

Posted on May 21, 2015 by Alasdair

The 300 Best Albums of the Past 30 Years (1985-2014) | SPIN
The albums on this list I own, I love. And there are a lot of albums/artists here I've always meant to give more time to. This list would seem like a solid place to start, with a lot of them.

The New Mad Max Film Is So Feminist My Scrotum Killed Itself
A sublime and perfect piece of writing. Rather like the film, in fact.

Posted on May 16, 2015 by Alasdair

Black Widow, Scarce Resources And High-Stakes Stories : Monkey See : NPR
This is a really good essay on the Black Widow problem in the new Avengers movie. Taken by itself, it's not actually terrible – the metaphors she represents are worth pulling into the light and talking about, and there are reasons why it has to be a female character that has to given them – but the problem is that there simply aren't enough prominent women characters in this kind of movie for us to take them in isolation. And that, I guess, feel like the most nuanced criticism one could level …

Posted on May 2, 2015 by Alasdair

Working with JSON in Swift Tutorial – Ray Wenderlich
Anyone who has not interest in web app development will probably have gone home in disgust at this point. Non-technical links will resume at some point, honest.

LAFABLE – Large Agile Framework Appropriate for Big, Lumbering Enterprises
Offered entirely without comment.
Creating a CRUD App in Minutes with Angular’s $resource
I've been noodling with Angluar as a quick web front-end over my REST API for the last week or so, and I've just turned this up, which will substantially cut down my coding time.
lucadegasperi/oauth2-server-laravel
I'm going to need OAuth for a Laravel thing I'm building. This will save me much work.

remoblaser/laravel-resourceful
Generator for Laravel controllers and views. Not perfect, but a definite save-on-typing-job.

Posted on April 6, 2015 by Alasdair

Sister Rosetta Tharpe – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
How have I never heard of this woman properly before today? (Well, no, I know how: patriarchy.) I've got (and enjoyed) a few tracks by her on various complications, but I had no real notion of who she was until I read an article on Cracked.com (of all places) today.