Fools Linky

PITY THE APRIL FOOL: Kids dressed like Mr T

So hey – it’s my birthday tomorrow. Give me a birthday gift of an interesting link to an essay, video, picture, whatever. Pop it in the comments, and I’ll open them tomorrow! Hurrah!

This one’s been all over. From its origins until the late 80s, Schulz’s strip Peanuts used a four-panel format. (It then changed to three panels with more formal experimentation.) 3eanuts takes those strips and removes the fourth panel. The rhythm still works because 3-panel strips are more common these days, but without Schulz’s bitter/redemptive final panel gags the tone is… well. Lets just say it’s one more sign that Peanuts was a really really weird strip to be globally famous. It’s not exactly Garfield.

From Alastair G, since seen everywhere: 20 sad etsy boyfriends

Mills & Boon covers recreated – first saw this via Jenni

Mike U pointed out these political/philosophical reviews of the Mr Men books

Police vs Clowns, locked in time:

William Burroughs on Led Zeppelin

“Do you LIKE HIM like him?” That’s contrastive reduplication.

Meant to do this one last year: an American writer reviews and compares the first episodes of NZ’s Outrageous Fortune, and the US remake Scoundrels. In the comments, OF co-creator James Griffin sounds off. Great stuff for people curious about why TV some shows work & some don’t.

A channel featuring the worst of YouTube

Fantasy travel posters

Via Warren Ellis, one heck of a short film (a wee bit disturbing)

I linked this on Facebook aaaaaages ago, but think it never made it to a Friday linky: Pictures of Muslims wearing things

Evie found this neato diagrammatic version of Hamlet.

Spider-Man wants you to vote! And drink vitamin C! And use contraception!

There’re a lot of lipsync videos on YouTube. This is the most impressive one you’ll ever see.

Bad postcards


EC Segar’s Raiders of the Lost Ark

From the Smithsonian – Top 10 consequences of having evolved (via Monsieur Bartok)

Greatest letter ever printed on sportsteam letterhead

Trailer for fanfilm adaptation of Lovecraft’s Whisperer in Darkness – this has been in my list for months and months, come out already film!

Yoga – not as old as you think

Why are easy decisions so hard? (via gnat)

And finally… Iron Crocodile

23 thoughts on “Fools Linky”

  1. Happy day of Morgue world happiness! (I’ve got that right, yes?)

    Linky for yoooou – you’ve probably seen it anyway … Amanda Palmer, singing twitter.

  5. Oldie but a goodie (some swearing at the end) from a much missed expert:
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lT46V3mmWRE

    Aurora timelapse:
    http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2011/03/30/ok-because-i-like-yall-bonus-aurora-timelapse-video/

    Fun with robots…
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CoA-m5iHG9s&feature=related

    Is it Alan or is it Steve?
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xaPepCVepCg

    And Celine Dion screaming for 90 seconds:
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Ea5xaIokcA

    Happy one year more wiser day 🙂

  6. Thank you linky givers!

    NB: I expect many of these comments to be screened as spam due to the links. So don’t fret if it takes me a while to approve ”em.

  8. Your “10 consequences of evolution” is bringing up a 404 at the moment.

    Interestingly enough I have just finished reading a Led Zeppelin bio that goes into Page’s occult interests at some length, including the Burroughs interview.

  9. Thanks samm, html coding fail. Fixed! (And it has revealed another link that was hidden, the EC Segar Raiders of the Lost Ark one.)

  11. Adam Curtis, BBC doco chief, maker of the superlative Century of the Self, Power of Nightmares, The Trap, etc, has a blog.

    http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/adamcurtis/

    It it really brilliant and you should be reading it if you aren’t already. Dude has access to all of the BBC archives, and uses them (and a savvy savvy take on things) to comment on what is happening now. (eg) recently, in response to Japan situation, gave a history of the development of nuclear power and safety standards etc; the latest post explores the history and development of the notion of humanitarian intervention, and comes in the wake of Libya. Etc. Etc.

  14. Morgue! Birthday! YOU! Pow! Explosions! Excitement! Really wild things! Finally, success! AGE! and a dated linky!

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