Category: Friday Linky

Video in which a quick brown fox jumps over a lazy dog:

Funny or Die has stand-up in Jabba’s palace…
Competition-winning Star Wars fan-film: hot chicks fight with lightsabers. How could it not win? Made by the featured women; interview with them here.
Cute things falling asleep
45 notable statues – how many have you seen?
15 secret service buildings – how many have you seen?
Writers! Submit to Modern Drunkard Magazine! “We’re looking for stories with a positive view of drinking — if we wanted boo-hoo ballyhoo we’d go to an AA meeting.”
100 things your kids won’t know about. Apart from a weird reference to the nanny state, this is quite astute.
Open Parachute explains how you tell a genuine scientific controversy from a media work-up.
Reading the Maps visits Samoa – well worth the read for every citizen of the Pacific.
A Slovenian Choir does Toto’s Africa a capella, in Africa:

And finally… Why must I cry. It’s been around a few years but I’ve only just seen this. And… man. I actually started really caring about the guy. man what

Take a load off, drink some Slow Cow, and settle in for some more linky on a Friday…
“Not sure what these are, they are too heavy to float but they look like surf boards…”
Everyone’s been having some fun with Sarah Palin’s see-ya-folks address. You should have seen Shatner’s poetry reading already (google it, it keeps getting taken down but there’ll be copies around) – also worth a look is this editing pass from Vanity Fair… (via the ‘gator)
Barbershop Star Wars
Huge scale model of Shanghai
Emails from Crazy People
Adam Curtis’s new doco, It Felt Like A Kiss, in its entirety but obviously without the live-action interactive experience in which it was originally embedded.
And finally, more from Aaron – it’s Doc Bottoms all-over body spray deodorant. Bleah.

(It’s my aunt’s birthday today, happy birthday to you!)
This is a short trip through rap music from 30 different countries and almost as many languages. It’s interesting, even though it isn’t mixed and summing up an entire nation’s tradition of hip-hop in a three-second clip has obvious limitations. Worth a look just to remind yourself of the global appeal of talking over a beat.

Also, a goofy rap over the Harry Potter film trailer. Heh.
The highly respected Architect’s Journal does Top 10 Comic-book cities.
Post-it note stories: Man not Superman. (Someone twittered this. Stephen Judd maybe? Er.
Heaps of pop-culture riffs on da Vinci’s Last Supper.
44 end-of-the-world prophecies that didn’t happen.
The Second Pass identifies ten classic books that you shouldn’t bother reading.
CG at Sleep Dep has been turning out great weird little fiction/humour things for a while now. I particularly like the latest one: a promotional brochure for DadCo.
CG is also involved in The Event, a collab fiction with five writers detailing what happens to five different characters as some great event affects their city.
And finally… it’s the interactivity of it that I love… Small things eating Big things

My grandfather Percy loved his typewriters, and went through a large number of them over the years. When he first typed “Now is the time for all good men to come to the aid of the party” I had no idea what it meant but didn’t ask. What kind of party would need help, small me wondered. Was pass-the-parcel going wrong? Pin-the-tail-on-the-donkey spinning wildly out of control?
(Internet, he say: it comes from a very early typing demonstration.)
Shoggoths: what we know from fiction.
Real-life shoggoth in the arctic.
Real-life shoggoth in the sewers.
Classic romance comics reveal all the reasons why chicks cry. Related: 1963 Aussie govt paper on why women shouldn’t be trade commissioners.
101 Muppets of Sesame Street – mouseover for first appearance details.
A Michael Jackson response that won’t make you feel dirty inside. Also: Sadhbh gets shirty with the MJ hypocrites.
PBS interview with health insurance insider about their panic over Michael Moore’s “Sicko”. Incredible account of how PR is done by big interests, how politicians get pulled onside, how a campaign strategy is run, etc. Includes links to actual internal documents that present their response strategy in powerpoint slides.
In honour of Flight of the Conchords getting some emmy noms, here’s an a capella take on “Friends”.

Captain Kirk follows Wesley Crusher. Something about this makes me very happy and I don’t give the slightest hoot about Trek.
Index of Alan Moore stuff that is free online.
And finally… a five-minute video of video game history with Super Mario leghumping! And WTF! W! T! F! For five minutes! And this was meant to be the beginning of a srs doco!
And finally finally… play Helen off, keyboard cat

Muppet mashup – mashups, remixes, and covers of music from The Muppet Show and Sesame Street.
April Fools joke becomes real: Tauntaun sleeping bag
Hannah Montana Linux. Say what? It’s on Sourceforge, man, I dunno. Blame @johnnieingram, he has a guilty look if you ask me.
Michael Jackson tributes worth a look: Eternal Moonwalk and dance breakout in Stockholm public square
Movie stunts that stuntmen rate highly – it’s a typically-undercooked Slate article but still of interest.
Ben found this: the proposal document for The Wire. Outlines season 1 in a lot of detail – most of the beats are familiar but there’s some major changes too. Direct pdf link
And finally… Fancy Fast Food man what

Samurai vs. fired air gun pellet. Holy cow.

Crazy new tech from German engineering visionaries Festo: robot flying penguins?
The Tone Matrix – construct your own music out of a grid of sound.
Chewbacca befriends a chipmunk. This photograph series gets weirder the more I think about it actually. See also: Baroque Star Wars.
Haaretz, Israel’s smartest newspaper, on June 10 switched out all its reporters for poets and novelists. Brilliant.
Debz reflects on fun, and what that meant at different stages of her life, and what it means now that she’s a busy mum. A great read.
And finally… Macs finally demonstrate their superiority to PCs

Today Friday linky can has:
homeopathic antimatter
Google video of early 80s nuclear threat films inc. Day After, Threads
British Library’s 19th century newspaper archive, scanned-in and searchable. Wow. BBC article saying wow.
World’s first hip-hop video that is a documentary-style film about a LARPer:

Prehistoric oddities
What happens when a Twitter celeb is not actually that celeb but instead some dude
And finally… the ten best drug experiences on The Simpsons

Been busy, so only a few linky this week.
Han Solo, PI:

More on expat-Kiwi Roger Langridge’s Muppet Show comic: review and preview. Spot the New Zealand references!
Werewolf mag, a great NZ current affairs magazine from Gordon Campbell.
And finally, perhaps the perfect toy for boys and girls: Turbo Heather.
Away with me!

Tintin vs. Predator.
Cracked profiles 5 other-pedias. Conservapedia and Encyclopedia Dramatica are the most interesting if you haven’t encountered them before.
Visualizing randomness.
A 2007 New Yorker story on how criminal profiling is bunkum.
Free album by Del the Funky Homosapien: funk man (the Stimulus Package).
And finally: International Jurassic Park Erotic Fan-Fiction Writer’s Association.

Because nothing soothes the throat like linky.
Archive of gay-themed paperback covers. I love the cover copy on the eponymous book: “Back when men were men… more or less.”
Did I ever post this? The Bourne Identity was a TV series in the 60s called Coronet Blue. Well, near enough. See also Wikipedia entry for the series. That’s the kind of classic oddity I’d like to see on DVD.
Awkward Family Photos!
Sexist advertisements from when those womenfolk knew their place
From svend via talula: Things you should have seen on the net. Which means I have finally seen this agonizing clip:Boom goes the dynamite. Oh, man.
And finally… the BoHe-Man Rhapsody