I really enjoyed this funny and spirited takedown of Taylor Swift, wholesome singer/songwriter, winner of lotsa music awards, the one who Kanye generously let finish. Nail-on-head moment: “This is perhaps her music’s most grating sin: the sex-shaming girl-bashing passed off as outsider insecurity.”
Bryan Talbot’s Torquemada comic-format pick-a-path from oddball 80s comic/game hybrid Diceman, online in animated form.
A research report from the new economics foundation in the UK that develops a new metric for evaluating the worth to society of various jobs, and concludes that “Elite City bankers (earning £1 million-plus bonuses) destroy £7 of value for every £1 they create.” I’m only about half-way through the report itself but recommend you at least click through for the summary.
Incredible model photography.
Check out this game by friend-of-FromTheMorgue Matt C: Scrambled. Guide a robot through a tricky environment. Anyone who has played the boardgame Robo Rally will grok this instantly. Neat fun!
How-to guide to falling out of a plane and surviving
Infographic that powerfully demonstrates the depth of the ocean.
Infographic that powerfully demonstrates that it’s an infographic.
Yes, the 90s really did suck a whole lot: Alien 3, the Pepsi commercial
One of the things I like doing after a Friday linky is scanning the departures. I feel happy when it shows that every linky had a few people check it out. But last week there were no recorded clickthroughs on the enigmatically unexplained linky Boomdeyada. So here’s the explain: Discovery Channel made an amazing promo featuring all their scientist-types singing about what is cool about the world. Then lovely webcomic XKCD made a comic version giving props to the Discovery channel. Then someone else made an animated version of the XKCD comic. Then some other people made a new version of the song about how they love XKCD. It’s wicked. Watch all of them. And yes, that last one includes a few famous folk, at least famous in geek-type circles.
And finally… a blog devoted to analysis and discussion of men wearing gorilla suits
