Trek: photos from 70s Trek conventions. The audio commentary for each photo is worth listening to.
Trek: make customized paper stand-ups of Star Trek characters, Intended for roleplayers but just fun to play with!
Print ads for classic computers. Great! (Trek: Shatner with grinning endorsement in several ads.)
Boys know that girls like puppies. But what breed of puppy has the most pulling power? Here is a handy graph. Full details of the experiment are here but I can’t bring myself to watch the videos because I think this is likely to be creepier than I want it to be.
Helen R linkied this a while back: the baby name wizard, which tracks the use of names in the U.S. since 1880, by gender. My name, Morgan, runs at a relatively constant frequency for boys – but it doesn’t show up as a girl’s name until the ’70s, then explodes to massively outnumber the boy Morgans. This is why.
And finally… how the heck have I never seen the demented genius that is the DOOM comic? Encyc Dramatica is, of course, all over it, featuring a mind-blowing/mind-numbing dramatic reading of the comic. RIP AND TEAR! RIP AND TEAR!
[edited – last minute update linky:] Fear & Loathing in Las Vegas: the Board Game!
