Category: Friday Linky

Not much serious stuff this week. Lotsa random stuff. It’s all out of the folder, haven’t had time to go looking about lately…

An unlicensed Xbox Twin Peaks homage/rip-off

Kevin Spacey does impressions. Smug comes off the guy in waves, but he is good at this.

Retrospace: blog of the 70s. So many great photos.

SFX mag presents a script for Firefly/Serenity in 5 minutes.

The Andy Rooney Game: “Remove everything but the first and last sentences from Andy Rooney’s segment on 60 Minutes. Then post that onto YouTube.”

This is how you do web-series self-promotion on a tiny tiny budget. Those smart kids at The Guild created another music video:

(Here’s the last one: Do you want to date my avatar)

This totally plays to Western stereotypes of Japan rather than enhancing cultural understanding, but nonetheless, 6 Japanese subcultures that are insane even in Japan

This is relevant to my interests. Art made out of licorice.

And finally… HAL 9000 sings “Hot in Here”

Watchin’ the Tall Blacks vs France at FIBA World Champs in the other window. NZ playing its best game of the tournament so far. I love (LOVE) watching random guys from the NZ basketball league taking NBA players to the hole. But I will not spoil the game for ppl who record it to watch later. So only cryptic comments from now on.

This week’s Star Wars linky: sleek, funny character redesigns

Pero Cameron! The maestro!

Check out David Tennant in the Roddy McDowall role in the Fright Night remake. DT fangirls will find new, strange ways to squee.

(from bekitty) Virtual Choir: created by distributing sheet music and a video of the guy conducting.

Half-time. Tall Blacks playing well.

(from Lyndon) Hipster Dinosaurs – it’s the chosen medium that makes this perfect

Disney Princesses give Advice for Young Girls. “The key to love is to tolerate everything.”

Animaniacs tribute – with interviews with the animators etc. Haven’t actually watched this but it has enormous good buzz. Animaniacs was great comedy.

Abercrombie! As commentator guy says, he can really go upstairs!

Hearing a random song in 1990 vs. in 2010. Everyday example shows huge change in knowledge infrastructure for human species. IS IGNORANT ROCKIN’ OUT GONE FOR GOOD?

The Map Realm: fictional road maps by a guy who really loves maps. Maps are fascinating objects.

From Rach B back a ways: amazing, lovely bookshelfery

Here’s a treat: the death trap page from Treasure Hunters University, which appears to be a site by a guy who’s all about going into Mexico and looking for ancient treasures in deathtrapped tombs, for realsies.

3/4 time. This is a great game to watch.

And finally, something simple and cute and a little bit brainwormy… Spike the cockatiel sings tequila

The sort of busy where netball is delayed by 90 minutes and I think “awesome, I can stay in the office another 90 minutes!”

A Brazilian city that ended hunger. (Not sure where I got this from – Vivian from Chicago, maybe?)

Album cover, lyrics to “Nobody loves the Hulk” at a fun Vintage Comics blog. See also: Bangladeshi Hulk parody/appropriation.

All Tarkovsky’s films are available to watch free online.

Half-hour episode 1 of internet tv sci-fi series Pioneer One. Haven’t watched this yet but word around it is good. Via Warren Ellis.

Alan Moore interview at Quietus, and guest appearance on comedy podcast.

Terrifying Green Dragon! Since reading this plot synopsis weeks ago, it has haunted me. By the inimitable sleep-dep.

Via Stephen Fry – stunning close-up photos of eyes. Beautiful and weird.

This week’s Star Wars reimagining: Wookiee the Pooh

And finally… bicycle safety. At the half-way mark it gets particularly funky.

While the voting continues apace in previous-post (midnight tonight NZ time is when I count ’em up and apply the result to my Twitter account), here be some linky.

David Tennant, post Doctor Who, went the House route and got a U.S. pilot. It wasn’t picked up but a clip from the pilot has emerged. Enjoy David’s accent here (because there isn’t much else to enjoy – this is so by-the-numbers it hurts).

Stand-up Dan Telfer explains dinosaurs (via George L)

Here is some well-expressed love for the KLF’s Doctorin’ the Tardis. I was holding my cassingle of this just the other day. Linky includes .pdf of KLF’s “The Manual” about how to get a #1 single, whose rules were famously not followed by the KLF themselves.

via Samm: WWII as seen on Facebook

Steve Leon introduced me to the sublime Smarthistory, an art history site with excellent, deep, tempting content.

More Star-Wars-reinterpretation. Young Daniel Logan (Boba Fett in the preview trilogy) made this Stormtrooper helmet as Maori carving; and Victorian interpretations of Star Wars characters.

As the US political scene races further and further away from sanity: I’m voting Tea Party.

You are not so smart – read this blog and you might become a bit more smarterer.

Simply incredible: Real-Life Superheroes. Whatever your expectations are, this will exceed them. (via Bleeding Cool.)

Words to use if you really want to win at hangman.

And finally: Pulp Fiction redubbed with Mickey Mouse and Donald Duck voices. I don’t know why either.

A case of writers room fun. (via Warren Ellis)

Doctor Who lego

Star Wars in Edo Japan (action figures)

Star Wars blaxpoitation:

Star Wars ad for immunization

(Is the endless series of Star Wars variants and reimaginings and parodies an indicator that these films have indeed become a modern myth cycle?)

The knifeman posted a bunch of mind-blowing posters to Italian horror films. These are definitely worth a look.

This has been getting into legal trouble and is gone from YouTube, but I found another copy: Newport State of Mind. This is the good stuff boyo.

The greatest and most dramatic Wikipedia edit wars (are we finally over that annoying stage where people argue that Wikipedia is a blind alley because it doesn’t have expert-curated content? Good.)

Check out this great profile of Debz at Prinkipria, in support of this story. Nice one Debz! Interview contains bonus pukeko.

From all over, this neat project overlaying WWII era photos on their contemporary locations.

And finally, via Theremina… eating figs.

I did intend to do some of that blogging thing this week. But then this week happened. And now it’s Friday, Google Wave is being put to sleep, Gen Con is starting up, and Proposition 8 has been struck down. All good.

This is a huge deal: after all these years, Sabotage Wars is once again available. It is the Beastie Boys track Sabotage played alongside the opening minutes of Star Wars, and the way it matches up is just uncanny!

NZ dance team wins World Hip Hop Dance contest. Vid shows their performance and then the prizegiving. Watching this gave me a case of the emotions. Nice one, ladies.

Rise of the literature machines

From William Gibson: Knitmare

Turns out lucky underwear actually works. Science says so!

For all those Dawson’s Creek fans: Joshua Jackson holds his own Pacey-con

You hear about Hanny’s Voorwerp yet? You oughta know about it. The Awl brings you the smile-making astronomy.

And finally… Chewbacca riding a giant squirrel fights Nazis.

Frrrrriday linky for your Frrrrriday

Perverse taxidermy: a contemplation of bizarre taxidermy from a museum perspective.

8 Historical symbols that mean the opposite of what you think

Who Tall Are You (Who is taller, Hoff or Cleese? THE ANSWER WILL SURPRISE YOU unless you get it right)

A lovely gallery of 50s-60s horror comic covers.

One-stop online shop for when you want to buy a private island.

God of War movie adaptation as Sundance-style indie flick:

This has been everywhere this week, but just in case: Mila’s Daydreams

Roger Ebert rips into BP with great vigour. (I’ve been bemused by the extent to which the Britishness of BP has been a factor in US anti-BP comment. Like multinational oil corporations based in the US would have done a better job?)

That’s not a knife. This is a knife.

And finally, via Suraya… bunny show-jumping

Sometimes the gags take a while to come. Comedy is hard, man. But it’s nice to see my relatively weak gag in yesterday’s post get beautifully developed by C G in the comments. You should pop across to his Sleep Dep blog and the funny, weird rhythms of his Joe Korea story (starts here).

And while I’m talking about gags, this tweet about Kiwi Karl Urban being cast as Judge Dredd was met with silence. Obviously my genius will only be appreciated after my death. (Context for durty furriners.)

This was from Stephen Judd if I remember right: Bruce Lee’s audition for Green Hornet in ’64. Dude is charming and moves like lightning. For once YouTube comments not full of inane 14yo insults, instead full of comments about how damn hot Bruce is.

From Jenni, Young Me Now Me – I think this has been developed out of another “recreating old photos” site, because I recognized a couple of the pics I looked at, but in any case it’s lovely.

Lego tattoos. No, the other way around.

Mash brings down the Baudrillard in a response to the “how to fix Doctor Who” post linkied last week.

Hyper-realist painters. I find it odd that they almost all paint commercial products – post-Warhol I guess.

WWII reconsidered as a poorly-written TV series

My friend the Ruggerblogger is decamping to the Northern Hemisphere and expanding her rugby bloggery! Rugby enthusiasts would be well advised to read along with her.

In honour of SDCC, aka nerd prom, here’s Improv Everywhere doing Star Wars in a subway car.

And here’s a Brazilian site that’s probably saying something mean about Cosplayers photoshopping pics of themselves!

And finally, here’s an Instant Darth Vader Nooooooo button!

Just collected parents from airport where they were returning from that North America. They seemed wired and tired at the same time – I remember that feeling.

Here are some wired/tired linky for your wired/tired Friday.

Awesome life-size dinosaur puppets.

Password Card – remember more secure passwords.

A secret station on the London Underground, three floors above street level. And via Malc, here’s a tour of a tube station abandoned in 1938.

I haven’t listened to any of this yet, but: free album download – a tribute to Doctor Who. Presumably contains the only Doctor-Who-themed hip hop you will ever need.
Also, via Jamas: fixing the latest Doctor Who season. Worth a look if you’re a writer type and know what happened in season 5 of Who which hasn’t finished yet in NZ, spoiler warning.

Crazy U.S. right-wing pundit launches own university. This happened a while back but I was thinking about it again in light of the Krugman book. It is still mental.

Cute little AT-AT:

Hippy kitchens

From Maire, a science-based discussion of gender differences in little childrens: Out with Pink and Blue

And finally: art exhibition inspired by Law & Order episode summaries. (Features Kate Beaton!)

Still busy, as you can tell from posting frequency. Still, some linky for a rainy Wellington Friday.

Twilight Eclipse: The interactive YouTube experience, performed as an 8-bit game. Weirdness. More my speed: the not-your-regular-critics insight of What do young women really talk about when they talk about The Twilight Saga: Eclipse?

Fuhgeddabout the Broadway Julie Taymor/U2 failstravaganza Spider-Man: Turn Off The Dark. The webbed wonder already has his rock opera, Spider-Man: Rock Reflections Of A Super Hero – and you can experience the best 70s-tastic songs from it right here.

Dr Bunny brings the science with a round-up of great reality-based linky that you should really check out. Includes bonus Elmo!

Simon Pegg and Nick Frost have been eaten by ghosts

Oink! was mentioned mid-week, re: Frank Sidebottom. It was bloody great, that comic. Find out more here. Read some early, great issues here. And buried in the NotBBC site is this magazine based on the TV show the Oink! team all worked on next, Round The Bend.

But the biggest delight I’ve had in googling up Oink! was discovering that the two songs on the bonus flexidisc that came with the first issue are up for listening on Tony Husband’s site. I haven’t heard these songs in at least twenty years. I still know all the words. Glorious. (Apparently John Peel played them on his show!)

And finally, via William Gibson of all people, the trailer to Beach Girls and the Monster