Future News Linky

No, not Early Edition style future news. I bashed out a new article for the Ruminator, about what news websites are going to look like in a decade. Hint: a lot less like newspapers, a lot more like interactive infographics.

The alternate moose just tipped me off to the existence of some weird, interesting group creation thingamies at Reddit. You’ve heard of “first world problems”, right? Reddit has developed that concept somewhat, in some pretty bizarre ways. Find out more about the screaming and the tower and the giant wasps.

Very tangentially related: middle class movie posters

Mail order husbands (via Gator)

Deep Throat in the 21st century: Wired has a guide on how to leak something and not get nailed for it.

An interactive visualisation of every running joke in Arrested Development. (via David Ritchie, and then the entire AD-loving internets.) AD has to be the densest TV show ever, right? There’s just so much stuff in every episode. And with new episodes almost due, AD lovers really need to check out this delightful taster: Insert Me Anywhere

GeoGuesser is a fantastic browser game and destroyer of productivity. It lands you in a random Google Maps Street View spot, and you have to guess where in the world you are. (again via David Ritchie then everybody.)

I’ve made it about a quarter of the way through Sean Howe’s Marvel Comics: The Untold Story audiobook. Really good stuff, full of things I didn’t know and vital connecting tissue linking things I did know. The author has supported the book with a marvellous tumblr full of scanned original art, period photos, and other bits and pieces. Here’s one that deserves a wider audience than the comics geekery, though: four young Japanese Americans, reading comics in an internment camp; Howe adds some poignancy by working out exactly what was going on in the comic stories they were reading.

The Battle of Helm’s Deep, in Lego. The scale of this model freaks me out.

You’ve tried typing “Atari Breakout” into Google image search, right?

All right. There have been some impressive home-built Iron Man costumes over the last couple years, but this GW Space Marine is outright scary:

Moth City, which has been featured on this linky several times before, is an online comic by a Kiwi creator. Now it’s free to read on Thrillbent, which is fast becoming the hottest place around for online comics presentations. Tim Gibson’s creation is just picking up more and more steam as it goes, which delights me.

What if Point Break was remade by David Lynch? Or Wes Anderson? Or Tommy Wiseau?

Ordinary American investing in Blue Chip stock gets 11% return on investment. Pharmaceutical industry investing in lobbyists to prevent drug price negotiation gets… more. No, more than that. Nope, still more. No, even more than that. Er.

A photographer visits the crumbling remnants of the Star Wars Tatooine sets.

Matt Taibbi continues to justify the existence of Rolling Stone magazine: Everything is rigged: the biggest price-fixing scandal ever

An 1809 depiction of an alien invasion by Washington Irving (he of the headless horseman of Sleepy Hollow & Rip van Winkle fame) (via Svend)

And finally, a copy of the weird Doctor Who/Eastenders crossover – this version complete with production notes. (Yes, this crossover was a real thing. It is… not good.)

8 thoughts on “Future News Linky”

  1. Ah, Dimensions in Time. The secret shame of Doctor Who.

    And that’s saying something.

  2. At least it was for charity!

    And you can’t say you’ve seen it all until you’ve seen the deleted scenes. Them’s so telling…

  3. Amusingly, the Google ads I get on the Mail Order Husbands page are all for mail order brides…

  4. I didn’t want to oversell the production notes stuff in the main post, because it would spoil the joke. But they are AMAZING. Watch!

    Andrew: It doesn’t hurt so much now that the show is a global success story, I find.
    Jet: ooh, haven’t see that!
    Pearce: FANTASTIC
    jack: hah!
    David: ain’t it though!

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