links for 2009-07-02
July 2nd, 2009
#internetbeatles
July 1st, 2009
Today’s Twitter hashtag game is #internetbeatles (the link is self-explanatory).
Below is one of my contributions, captured here for posterity.
To decrypt this message use http://infoencrypt.com/. Password is ‘internetbeatles’.
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links for 2009-06-29
June 29th, 2009
The Weighting Game
June 29th, 2009
I see your BBC News post about “Fat Stars Make Obesity Normal“:
Professor Michael McMahon of Nuffield Health says fat stars are seen as role models, helping to make being overweight acceptable.
and raise you this New York Times article on “Excess Pounds, but Not Too Many, May Lead to Longer Life“.
“Overweight may not be the problem we thought it was,” said Dr. David H. Feeny, a senior investigator at Kaiser Permanente Center for Health Research in Portland, Ore., and one of the authors of the study. “Overweight was protective.”
Honestly, it’s like they think we don’t talk to one another…
London To Brighton Gallery
June 24th, 2009
“Back Off Man, I’m A Scientist.” (Remembering Ghostbusters)
June 6th, 2009
If there is one thing I can thank my older, nine-year-old sister for back in the early summer of 1984, it would be for not wanting to go and see ‘Conan the Destroyer‘.
I remember my Dad asking us to choose a movie that he would take us out to later in the afternoon, and I had picked ‘Conan’ purely because I was 6 years old and thought the name sounded cool, and had probably heard some older kids saying that they were going to catch the Ah-nald sequel that weekend. That was enough for me to want to go and see it, even though I had never seen the previous ‘Barbarian’ flick. I obviously knew nothing about the film, other than the fact that seeing it, my 6-year-old mind told me, would make me an infinitely cooler person.
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Geek Speak: 111 Years of War of the Worlds Book Covers
May 24th, 2009
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A beautiful gallery of book covers from HG Wells’ “The War of the Worlds”, in print since 1898. This huge collection of covers:
“represents a huge swath of graphic design, from 1898 to the present, across languages and through the effects of radio, movie, musical, and television re-interpretations”.
Absolutely fantastic. And of course what self-respecting science fiction book cover collection would be complete without a completely unnecessary Starship Enterprise?
Click here to purchase War Of The Worlds (2 Disc Special Edition) on Amazon.
My Cat Can Has Cheezburger
May 17th, 2009
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moar funny pictures
Sirius just seems to be the more comedically photogenic of our three cats, having already been picked for inclusion in the forthcoming I Can Has Cheezburger book for this pic:
moar funny pictures
And of course, he’s in a couple more that never really got voted highly, but were funny to us nonetheless.
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Geek Speak: Internet Meme Scratch Attack
May 9th, 2009
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Internet Meme Scratch Attack from Jamie Dubs on Vimeo.
“The Internet’s most famous audio samples in DJ-friendly format.”
The Joy Of goopymart
May 7th, 2009
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I came across @goopymart by way of @apelad (Creator of the incredibly enjoyable Laugh-Out-Loud Cats) a while back. I loved the style of the cartoon artwork so much, I decided to decorate my IT Lab with pictures from their ‘TEH INTERNETS’ Flickr set last September. There’s very little that they make that doesn’t make me smile.
You should head on over to goopymart and have a look around at their “bright, colorful, clumpy art”. There’s bound to be something there that can adorn a wall, fridge, etc (all Creative Commons licensed, too). They’ve also got a CafePress store and fingers in every social media pie you can, er, stick your fingers into. KTHXBAI.
