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merrilyThis post came thisclose to just being a giant Robert Downey, Jr. picspam. Ah well. Next time!
Links: Happy-making Vids & Pics
HEDGEHOOOOOOOOG wif a truck. (This is a picture.)
(If the embed isn't working for you, you can watch this extremely funny ad for a personal injury law firm here on YouTube.)
(If you can't see the embed, you can watch an adorable baby rock out and simultaneously fall asleep here on YouTube.)
(Wow, this one is surprising! If the embed isn't working, you can listen to this Notorious B.I.G and Miley Cyrus mashup here on YouTube.)
Links: Things To Make & Do
Knit your own Wonder Woman Sweater! It looks significantly warmer than her actual costume, I must say. [io9]
If your lunch looked like adorable CareBears, would you be more or less likely to eat it? [BoingBoing]
The weather is fucking awful outside. However! January means I can drink hot chocolate all the time! And if I was more ambitious, I could make these tiny adorable gingerbread houses to perch on my mug while I drank my cocoa. [Not Martha]
Brush up your game with the handy dandy Shakespeare insult generator, you drunken knave.
DudeCraft discovered that there's a whole subculture of nickel carvers. Like, people who take their pocket change, and make it awesome. No word on whether it would still be legal tender, but hey, you're only out five cents afterwards.
Links: Science!
Did you know ice could do this? I really did not.
BoingBoing has a couple of articles about Caster Semenya that I found interesting and full of useful linkage: Caster Semenya And The Apartheid of Sex, and a follow-up about the International Olympic Committee being jerk-faces. Dear IOC - Neither sex nor gender are binary. I am not kidding about this. No love, Rachel
EcoGeek posted an interesting article this week about findings that offshore wind turbines actually enrich marine ecosystems. Huh. Haters to the left.
There may be diamond oceans with diamond icebergs on Jupiter and Uranus! No, for realsies!
National Geographic made a doc called Extraordinary Animals In The Womb, and here are some stills from the documentary. Whoa. The babby elephant is my favourite. (That's right. Bab-bee. My irish comes out when I look at wee creatures.)
Links: Misc. Neato and/or Silly
Article on poet Gary Snyder in the NYT, which I link to because in it he writes a poem about why he takes good care of his Mac. Darn tootin', Mr. Snyder.
No, this is not a troll. No, you don't need to go get McGonagall.
Artist Ron Mueck makes super freaky lifelike enormous sculptures of people, and Life Mag has a gallery of images of his work. [Found via BoingBoing.]
Here's a good website: Awkward Stock Photos. (And by "good" I mean "good at wasting time".)
Krys @ Cheap Healthy Good got her mitts on a copy of The Quick Cookbook (1961), and scanned a lot of it in for our pleasure. I think I may try making Mayonnaise Mounds tomorrow! You know, if I decide I want a quick death.
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal (a webcomic!) offers Fixing your lycanthropy: 3 Approaches. I am slightly vexed that none of the options are "get Snape to make you a potion".
Links: Stuff I Want
So apparently there is a Jayne Cobb Is My Boyfriend shirt... although it doesn't seem to come in girl sizes, which I find kind of hilarious. What are you saying, stylinonline.com? Are you saying that Jayne likes the HoYay?
Laptop cases made from old books! ... or stuff that looks like old books. Whatevs, I want it. [found viamklutz, I think?]
This Peanuts as Peanuts shirt proposal on Threadless is delightful.
New York Delft tableware is GQMF awesome.
I want this rug that looks like the moon A LOT, but the truth is that if I owned it, I would piss off everyone else in my house by repeatedly standing on it, taking a giant step, and proclaiming that it was one small step for Rachel, one huge step for all the microbacteria on my shoes. Just pretend that joke was funny, okay?.
Links: Fannish Misc.
Apparently, the lovely J. August Richards (from Angel -- he played Gunn) is going to join the cast of Grey's Anatomy! Scoop from AU Entertainment Weekly. He'll be playing a young version of the Chief. I approve of this news, because damn.
Speaking of damn. You can play in my big parade any time, RDJ.
Profile of Neil Gaiman in New Yorker Mag, which is pretty good, although Neil says there are still some inaccuracies (see #3 in his blog post).
You think this person would've been tipped off that it wasn't Austen by all the rampant manlove.
Calvin & Hobbes: Private Investigators. Wait, did I link to this already? WHO CARES. STILL AWESOME.
Fic recommendations next!
Links: Happy-making Vids & Pics
HEDGEHOOOOOOOOG wif a truck. (This is a picture.)
(If the embed isn't working for you, you can watch this extremely funny ad for a personal injury law firm here on YouTube.)
(If you can't see the embed, it's Michael Alden demonstrating how a hat should be worn from Vimeo.)
(If you can't see the embed, you can watch an adorable baby rock out and simultaneously fall asleep here on YouTube.)
(Wow, this one is surprising! If the embed isn't working, you can listen to this Notorious B.I.G and Miley Cyrus mashup here on YouTube.)
Links: Things To Make & Do
Knit your own Wonder Woman Sweater! It looks significantly warmer than her actual costume, I must say. [io9]
If your lunch looked like adorable CareBears, would you be more or less likely to eat it? [BoingBoing]
The weather is fucking awful outside. However! January means I can drink hot chocolate all the time! And if I was more ambitious, I could make these tiny adorable gingerbread houses to perch on my mug while I drank my cocoa. [Not Martha]
Brush up your game with the handy dandy Shakespeare insult generator, you drunken knave.
DudeCraft discovered that there's a whole subculture of nickel carvers. Like, people who take their pocket change, and make it awesome. No word on whether it would still be legal tender, but hey, you're only out five cents afterwards.
Links: Science!
Did you know ice could do this? I really did not.
BoingBoing has a couple of articles about Caster Semenya that I found interesting and full of useful linkage: Caster Semenya And The Apartheid of Sex, and a follow-up about the International Olympic Committee being jerk-faces. Dear IOC - Neither sex nor gender are binary. I am not kidding about this. No love, Rachel
EcoGeek posted an interesting article this week about findings that offshore wind turbines actually enrich marine ecosystems. Huh. Haters to the left.
There may be diamond oceans with diamond icebergs on Jupiter and Uranus! No, for realsies!
National Geographic made a doc called Extraordinary Animals In The Womb, and here are some stills from the documentary. Whoa. The babby elephant is my favourite. (That's right. Bab-bee. My irish comes out when I look at wee creatures.)
Links: Misc. Neato and/or Silly
Article on poet Gary Snyder in the NYT, which I link to because in it he writes a poem about why he takes good care of his Mac. Darn tootin', Mr. Snyder.
No, this is not a troll. No, you don't need to go get McGonagall.
Artist Ron Mueck makes super freaky lifelike enormous sculptures of people, and Life Mag has a gallery of images of his work. [Found via BoingBoing.]
Here's a good website: Awkward Stock Photos. (And by "good" I mean "good at wasting time".)
Krys @ Cheap Healthy Good got her mitts on a copy of The Quick Cookbook (1961), and scanned a lot of it in for our pleasure. I think I may try making Mayonnaise Mounds tomorrow! You know, if I decide I want a quick death.
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal (a webcomic!) offers Fixing your lycanthropy: 3 Approaches. I am slightly vexed that none of the options are "get Snape to make you a potion".
Links: Stuff I Want
So apparently there is a Jayne Cobb Is My Boyfriend shirt... although it doesn't seem to come in girl sizes, which I find kind of hilarious. What are you saying, stylinonline.com? Are you saying that Jayne likes the HoYay?
Laptop cases made from old books! ... or stuff that looks like old books. Whatevs, I want it. [found via
mklutz, I think?]This Peanuts as Peanuts shirt proposal on Threadless is delightful.
New York Delft tableware is GQMF awesome.
I want this rug that looks like the moon A LOT, but the truth is that if I owned it, I would piss off everyone else in my house by repeatedly standing on it, taking a giant step, and proclaiming that it was one small step for Rachel, one huge step for all the microbacteria on my shoes. Just pretend that joke was funny, okay?.
Links: Fannish Misc.
Apparently, the lovely J. August Richards (from Angel -- he played Gunn) is going to join the cast of Grey's Anatomy! Scoop from AU Entertainment Weekly. He'll be playing a young version of the Chief. I approve of this news, because damn.
Speaking of damn. You can play in my big parade any time, RDJ.
Profile of Neil Gaiman in New Yorker Mag, which is pretty good, although Neil says there are still some inaccuracies (see #3 in his blog post).
You think this person would've been tipped off that it wasn't Austen by all the rampant manlove.
Calvin & Hobbes: Private Investigators. Wait, did I link to this already? WHO CARES. STILL AWESOME.
Fic recommendations next!
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Date: 2010-01-26 04:30 pm (UTC)