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merrily2/2 goes up tomorrow Thursday; recs will be posted Wednesday Thursday. This is what happens when I have to do unimportant things like study. Darn it.
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The Opportunites I Didn't Want To Bury Behind A Cut list:
The amazingly-skilled Lisa Gold, who did the research for Neal Stephenson's Baroque Trilogy, is teaching a workshop on research for writers. If you live in or near Seattle, this sounds like a very useful thing!
If you're feeling unsatisfied with your current state of employment, you should subscribe to Crazy Hot Job, a website which posts one crazy hot job per day. Srsly crazy & hot.
Henry Jenkins and Babylon 5 creator Joe Straczynski are doing a panel thingy (if it's two people in conversation, do you still call it a panel?) @ MIT on May 22. If you're somewhere near there -- and even if you're ambivalent about Jenkins, as I am -- it might be fun. Deets here.
Links: Misc. Neato Vids/Music/Visuals
Vids
This archive of old Scrabble commercials is genius.
This Argentinian bank commercial vid about different kinds of change is really not at all what I was expecting. Surprisingly touching. [YouTube]
Outtakes from Richard Simmons' workout vids. Contains cursing! Also spandex! ergo, NSFW. [YouTube]
An old vid for Windows 95 extolling the awesomeness of multi-tasking. Ah Windows. Once you were mighty. [YouTube]
Andrea Wachtel sent a stripper to her highschool reunion to impersonate her. [BoingBoing]
Henson's 11. Kermit's got a crew as nuts as he is.
Slow loris loves getting tickled. Seriously, this is the most adorable thing I've seen all week. [Neatorama]
Trailer for The Hunt For Gollum, a movie made for fans of LOTR by fans of LOTR, which will be released FOR FREE online next week.
Music
Sufjan Stevens wrote this song for Sofia Coppola when he was trying to figure out what to change his name to. [Link goes to Stereogum, not immediately to the MP3]
Musicians around the world play Stand By Me [YouTube, from the documentary Playing For Change]
Final Fantasy covers Mariah Carey
Visuals
A bull in a supermarket is apparently less trouble than a bull in a china shop. [BBC]
Paintings Of Teens Partying With Morrissey I guess this would be fun? I don't want to be the girl in the bathing suit, though.
Links: Columns & Essays
I'm a big fan of the new BoingBoing guest editor, Maggie Koerth-Baker. This week, among other things, she posted Four Things To Consider Before You Try To Join The Amish. So. You know, if you're planning on that, what with the economy in the toilet and swine flu cropping up in the oddest of places, read Maggie's article first.
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kirby_crow titled this one Romance + Men's Anuses= Checksum Error, which I can't improve upon. Advice for slash writers. (Put that drink down and out of reach of accidental flailing. Also, in case the use of the word "anuses" didn't tip you off, NSFW.)
Links: Science! (and computers)
New Technology Allows Hands-free Twittering Via Brainwaves [University of Wisconsin-Madison News, via io9]
Maggie Koerth-Baker (@ BoingBoing) settles the question if cockroaches have penises.
Somniloquy is a piece of hardware that controls your computer power usage in circumstances when you have to leave it on for a long period of time (ie you're away from home, but you use your comp as a server). [EcoGeek]
Pocket-sized sustainable-energy harnessing recharger [EcoGeek]
Links: Awesome Stuff
Business cards made of meat!
The White House made of Jell-O!
The Settlers of Catan, now in delicious cake format!
DIY high-speed book scanner, made from trash & cheap cameras. I mean, that's not what's in my trash, but I bet I know where I could find that stuff.
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The Opportunites I Didn't Want To Bury Behind A Cut list:
The amazingly-skilled Lisa Gold, who did the research for Neal Stephenson's Baroque Trilogy, is teaching a workshop on research for writers. If you live in or near Seattle, this sounds like a very useful thing!
If you're feeling unsatisfied with your current state of employment, you should subscribe to Crazy Hot Job, a website which posts one crazy hot job per day. Srsly crazy & hot.
Henry Jenkins and Babylon 5 creator Joe Straczynski are doing a panel thingy (if it's two people in conversation, do you still call it a panel?) @ MIT on May 22. If you're somewhere near there -- and even if you're ambivalent about Jenkins, as I am -- it might be fun. Deets here.
Links: Misc. Neato Vids/Music/Visuals
Vids
This archive of old Scrabble commercials is genius.
This Argentinian bank commercial vid about different kinds of change is really not at all what I was expecting. Surprisingly touching. [YouTube]
Outtakes from Richard Simmons' workout vids. Contains cursing! Also spandex! ergo, NSFW. [YouTube]
An old vid for Windows 95 extolling the awesomeness of multi-tasking. Ah Windows. Once you were mighty. [YouTube]
Andrea Wachtel sent a stripper to her highschool reunion to impersonate her. [BoingBoing]
Henson's 11. Kermit's got a crew as nuts as he is.
Slow loris loves getting tickled. Seriously, this is the most adorable thing I've seen all week. [Neatorama]
Trailer for The Hunt For Gollum, a movie made for fans of LOTR by fans of LOTR, which will be released FOR FREE online next week.
Music
Sufjan Stevens wrote this song for Sofia Coppola when he was trying to figure out what to change his name to. [Link goes to Stereogum, not immediately to the MP3]
Musicians around the world play Stand By Me [YouTube, from the documentary Playing For Change]
Final Fantasy covers Mariah Carey
Visuals
A bull in a supermarket is apparently less trouble than a bull in a china shop. [BBC]
Paintings Of Teens Partying With Morrissey I guess this would be fun? I don't want to be the girl in the bathing suit, though.
Links: Columns & Essays
I'm a big fan of the new BoingBoing guest editor, Maggie Koerth-Baker. This week, among other things, she posted Four Things To Consider Before You Try To Join The Amish. So. You know, if you're planning on that, what with the economy in the toilet and swine flu cropping up in the oddest of places, read Maggie's article first.
kirby_crow titled this one Romance + Men's Anuses= Checksum Error, which I can't improve upon. Advice for slash writers. (Put that drink down and out of reach of accidental flailing. Also, in case the use of the word "anuses" didn't tip you off, NSFW.)Links: Science! (and computers)
New Technology Allows Hands-free Twittering Via Brainwaves [University of Wisconsin-Madison News, via io9]
Maggie Koerth-Baker (@ BoingBoing) settles the question if cockroaches have penises.
Somniloquy is a piece of hardware that controls your computer power usage in circumstances when you have to leave it on for a long period of time (ie you're away from home, but you use your comp as a server). [EcoGeek]
Pocket-sized sustainable-energy harnessing recharger [EcoGeek]
Links: Awesome Stuff
Business cards made of meat!
The White House made of Jell-O!
The Settlers of Catan, now in delicious cake format!
DIY high-speed book scanner, made from trash & cheap cameras. I mean, that's not what's in my trash, but I bet I know where I could find that stuff.