Links for Thursday January 26th 2012 through Friday January 27th 2012
- If 2012's Oscar-nominated movie posters told the truth – Movie Feature – TheShiznit.co.uk
Yes, very much so.
- Three kinds of things…
Good advice from C.S.Lewis.
Tag: funny
Bookmarks for September 2, 2011
- Monsters of Grok: fake band t-shirts for history's greatest thinkers by Jeremy Kalgreen
I just need to decide which of these to buy.
- It's Not Just Standing Up: Patterns for Daily Standup Meetings
This is an excellent summary of how to run an effective daily stand-up meeting, and how to fix problems with it, should they arise.
Bookmarks for July 5, 2011
- Notes for a Young Gentleman | The F Word Online | Granta Magazine
"A gentleman should have as deep a familiarity with the great religious texts of the world as is commensurable with not having read them." These made me laugh.
Bookmarks for March 7, 2011
- Creepy Girl In Hotel Hallway Gag
This is superb. And I'm pretty certain that if I turned a corner in a badly-lit hotel corridor, and saw a creepy small child standing there, I'd find another way to get where I was going as well. Start watching from about 45 seconds in.
- Terminally Geeky: use automatic login more securely
Need to set this up on my machines. It's a trivial enough thing, but the articles exactly right about why it's good – if I'm rebooting my machine for some reason, I can disenage from it until I'm 100% ready to come back, instead of having to reboot, wait, relogin and wait again.
- Skulls Direct – Skull Film Props, Human Skull Models, Gothic and Vampire Skulls and Bespoke Horror Film Props
Very specific prop shop. But funny.
- IE6 Countdown
Even Microsoft want people to stop using IE 6. I'm just saying…
Links for Wednesday February 9th 2011 through Thursday February 10th 2011
- Nerd saves entire BBC archive for $3.99, you can help for free – bengoldacre – secondary blog
Well, this is pleasing. Although I'm still boggled at the BBC's decision.
- The Best Questions For A First Date « OkTrends
Another bunch of interesting statistical slice-and-dices from OKC. I really hope they keep doing this, even through they've been acquired by match.com
Bookmarks for January 27, 2011
- This is the Big Society, you see. It must be big, to contain so many volunteers. | openDemocracy
Philip Pullman, speaking in defence of libraries, neatly skewers the problem with Dangerous Dave's beloved Big Society, where we will all help each other and and volunteer to keep public services going: who do you know has the spare time, energy and ability to go without earning a living or looking after the kids in order to volunteer?
- YouTube – "Premakes" Up! (1965)
A trailer for Pixar's Up! reimagined as a 1965 live-action Disney movie. Nice work.
Bookmarks for January 7, 2011
- IndieGames.com – The Weblog – The Best Of 2010: Top 10 Indie Games
A ten second play of their game of the year has me wanting to go back for more. One to check out when I'm not at work.
- russell davies: Ted Hughes on thinking
Ted Hughes was a man who knew about thinking. And dead pigs. Well worth a listen. Russell's observation re: YouTube is also trenchant and a pleasing thing to think about.
- How the case against the MMR vaccine was fixed — Deer 342 — bmj.com
This needs to do the rounds in a very big way. You know all those vaccine scares that are picked up by the easily swayed, and used as an excuse to endanger the rest of us through lack of vaccination? Well, it's not just the case that (single) study they're based on is a bit fringe – it's an outright, deliberate falsehood perpetrated by a man with malicious intent and a profit motive. If you know *anyone* who has a small child and is contemplating not vaccinating it, you need to make sure they see this.
- 2010 Year Lists – Fimoculous.com
Haven't had time to go through this yet, but want to get around to it.
- Michael Caine's impersonation of Michael Caine
Absolutely superb.
Bookmarks for November 1, 2010
- Steve Lieber And The Cellmate Test Bleeding Cool Comic Book, Movies and TV News and Rumors
This made me laugh. Lads, if you are confused as to whether a compliment you are paying a lady is going to be taken as flattery, or if you're going to cross the line into creepy, her is a simple test that will save you more than 90% of the time: imagine yourself in jail, and imagine how you would feel if your hypothetical cellmate said exactly the same thing to you. Now do you see?
- His Face All Red
An absolute gem of a little horror comic. Serious, go read.
- Lizard Brain » Blog Archive » 100 Aspects of Genre: Learning from the Dead and the Dying
Nice post on the evolution of genre, and why some genres flourish, some mutate, and some die at different times.
Bookmarks for October 20, 2010
- First they came for the quangos…
I imagine this one will be doing the rounds today.
- Kupenga Kwa Hamlet at Oval House Theatre 16th November to 4th December
I am told that this is "An exhilarating re-telling of the classic story of betrayal and vengeance, told by two outstanding, award-winning Zimbabwean performers using music, dance and a fusion of traditional African storytelling with contemporary Township Theatre practice. Fast, powerful, moving and unlike any other Shakespeare you have ever seen." I'm planning on going. Anyone else?
- Osborne will escape public wrath if Labour lets him win the blame game | Jonathan Freedland | Comment is free | The Guardian
Good piece on the importance of the blame game in today's cuts. Remember: it is not Labour who is responsible for these cuts. If you are disposed to blame someone other than the current government, I suggest you blame the bankers. And if you are disposed to suggest that they should have been more heavily regulated, then, well, I agree with you. And I suggest you ask yourself how the Conservative party of the time argued they should have been regulated. (Hint: it was not more heavily.)
- london futures | images that bring ideas to life and frame the climate change debate in a way that everyone can understand
Will have to try and get to the Museum of London to see this.
Bookmarks for October 1, 2010
- Bad Reputation
A feminist pop-culture adventure, written by a number of people of this parish. I've read some of what's to come on this site, and if you care at all about one or both of equality or pop culture you will want to read this.