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Tuesday, August 9th, 2011 12:22 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
luiniedOver a week late, and I have two months to cover. Yes, I have been even more busy than usual.
Favorite linkless Onion headline: "Michele Bachmann Announces Bid To Be Discussed More Than She Deserves In 2012"; favorite such post by someone else (@FakeAPStylebook): "The Serenity Prayer should always be written in a mixture of Chinese and future-cussin'."
...man, these get long when I miss a month.
- I already mentioned the new They Might Be Giants album, but I didn't provide any YouTube links. Well, here's the winner (as judged by John Hodgman) of a fan video contest for Can't Keep Johnny Down. (Content warning: nearly naked dude running about.) And this much less polished video assumes When Will You Die is about Rupert Murdoch, which, honestly, it might as well be.
- Voter suppression in Wisconsin: Americans for Prosperity sends out wrongly-dated information, basically stealing from this Onion article, and Walker's administration closes some DMV locations and extends hours at others, making it even more obvious that the voter ID bill was all about making sure people who lean against him have a harder time voting. Fucking despicable. Oh, and if you have a lot of time to kill, you can read up on ALEC, the organization that lets business leaders write bills for Republicans to vote in lock step on.
- I saw this reported with the comment "this is not an Onion headline": Media Reacts to News That Norwegian Terror Suspect Isn't Muslim. I don't think further commentary is necessary.
- Baby cheetahs! Thanks to
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cislyn for this link. - Ikuhara is releasing a new series, which I have been watching with nekobasu. Given how difficult it usually is to get me to watch anime, much less anime as it comes out, maybe this comic is about me? (Also, man, I had not seen Haruka driving since watching Utena. Um. Wow.)
- On a "related" note, it's only been slightly over a year since we discovered Neptune, in Neptune time. Also, outer space is amazing and don't let anyone tell you otherwise.
- Like most of you, I grew up presented with inaccurate, simplistic, and whitewashed views of 60s radicalism, which is why I like reading people try to explain what it was really about. This article loses a few points for dwelling on the smelliness of hippies a bit much, but it more than makes up for this with its disdain for libertarians. And I, at least, found it informative.
- Did you know there was a Six Flags in New Orleans? Yeah... it's predictably creepy now. (Warning: I believe there's a giant clown head in at least one of these pictures.)
- This story about an ancient museum is interesting in its own right, but my favorite part is this line: "Indeed, Ur was just the most extreme example of an entire empire that ran on nostalgia." Although of course I'm imagining something a bit different.
- Oh em gee, there will be an actual Club Silencio in Paris. Not that I could ever get in, but, SILENCIO! (You've all seen Mulholland Drive, right?)
- The dude behind textfiles.com rants about why Facebook is horrible. I like this, of course, because Facebook is horrible.
- How did I miss this game? It's a PS1 JRPG starring a little girl who raises Poms, and it has a community simulation aspect that gives the Poms something peaceful to do, as too much violent behavior turns them into monsters. And it isn't even by Gust.
- I doubt that anyone is going to be surprised when a study confirms that business-like thinking leads to unethical decisions, but I still appreciate that people are doing these studies and talking about their results.
- Apparently I was plugging Minus again? It's because I finally got my copy of the collection, which helps me when I need to be distracted but am not at a comuter. My fondness for this comic just continues to grow.
- Other comics: a more accurate version of two roads diverged in a yellow wood, Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal discusses two dating mistakes geeks make, and an old Legend of Zelda joke.
- Also from Tumblr: the Broship of the Ring, Dresden Codak characters as Zelda characters, and Futurama characters as Chrono Trigger characters. And some of you might be interested in these pictures of pretty rocks or these Doctor Who / A Softer World mashups.
- McSweeney's gives us what to say when friends are discussing video games that you have not played and more realistic makeup slogans.
- The Onion: Bus Passenger Stops Trying To Enjoy Kansas Scenery.
- I didn't actually post this to Twitter, but this wonderful Game of Thrones buddy comedy trailer needs to be seen by as many people as possible. ("What is that you SAY?!") The Ice-and-Fire-related comments that did make Twitter included a request for Kill Bill style nicknames for the Sand Snakes and pondering whether I should get "We Do Not Sew" stitching below the (admittedly non-cephalopod) kraken logos on these shirts
Favorite linkless Onion headline: "Michele Bachmann Announces Bid To Be Discussed More Than She Deserves In 2012"; favorite such post by someone else (@FakeAPStylebook): "The Serenity Prayer should always be written in a mixture of Chinese and future-cussin'."
...man, these get long when I miss a month.
Baby Cheetahs!
Date: Tue, Aug. 9th, 2011 02:32 pm (UTC)Also, yay for new They Might Be Giants!
Okay, that game, Community Pom, looks fun. Silly, but fun for one simple reason: watermelon golems. :D
Re: Baby Cheetahs!
Date: Tue, Aug. 9th, 2011 10:08 pm (UTC)KoL also had fruit golems, although I'm sure this is a coincidence; if you look in old D&D monster compendiums you'll see that there are golems made of damn near everything. (If you look in new D&D, you'll just see golems made of scary-sounding noun-adjective combinations.)
I'm surprised by how many of these links I've already read
Date: Tue, Aug. 9th, 2011 04:51 pm (UTC)I'm not going to click on YouTube links at work, but can I safely assume you're linking to Penguin Drum? Please confirm for me that I personally would not find it a suitably fabulous (and/or FABULOUS) replacement for Star Driver so's I can stop thinking about it, because it's making Good Haro's blog nearly unreadable these days.
In the bad old days of grad school, I worked with a woman studying behavioral accounting, specifically fraud and ethics. She's at Queen's University now. Fascinating work.
Oh, and speaking of fraud, good luck with your recall election! (Relatively) sane people elsewhere in the country are rooting for you.
I'm less surprised, given how old some of these links are
Date: Tue, Aug. 9th, 2011 10:17 pm (UTC)And thanks! I'm going to do my best to be distracted tonight and not spend time refreshing news sites.