A bit late but here at last, some Friday linky for you:
Some of the most powerful photographs ever taken (via Rachel B)
Aaron Sorkin commencement address, Neil Gaiman commencement address, Robert Krulwich commencement address
So the gulf stream doesn’t actually keep Europe warm? Science urban legends… “zombie ideas”
Let me clear out some linky from over a year ago…
A true story of Daily Mail lies
High school band plays Rage Against The Machine
5 artistic geniuses who only became great after selling out
Infographic: the evolution of the geek
The Discourager of Hesitancy – the followup to the Lady and the Tiger
Limericks that rely on counterintuitive pronunciation rules
Phrase frequency counter, for writers
William Gibson reads Neuromancer
Hip-hop revolutions that weren’t
Vest-pocket guide to 19th-century NYC brothels
And finally…
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Lordy, Lordy, those cereals! Gotta love the Ice Cream Cones one! How did that one become extinct! They belong so beautifully to the era of big hair and wide shoulder-padded jackets!
Seriously love the phrase frequency counter. Excellent!
Just looking through the powerful photographs. I’m bawling my eyes out! Faaaaar to pregnant for that stuff!
That emotional photos thing is pretty good. But try some of the links from here: http://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/oqvz4/reddit_what_is_the_most_powerful_photo_you_have/
Warning: at least one of those photos, and the explanatory background, made me have to go and sit and think hard about humanity for a few minutes.
whoa
You’re the biggest The Wire fan I know, and yet you missed David Simon’s commencement address…
http://davidsimon.com/commencement-address-georgetown-university/
Damn you ~m, you’ve driven me back into n.mancer craziness! I downloaded the audio files on my phone, I started to re-read the book, and now I’m hooked to Imdb in the hope that more news will appear. But Wahlberg?