Go big linky, drop it at the bomb:
One drawing for (on) every page of Moby Dick
Best infographic evar? properly appreciating Mega Shark
Wife blogs the things her husband says in his sleep
Unconventional childrens’ books: e.g. Mommy, Why is There a Server in the House?
A few months back The Onion ran a series of articles about History. This was my favourite: a collection of images showing art through the ages.
11 photos where black people were awkwardly photoshopped in or out
This made me happy: recreating childrens’ drawings in real life
Neat short doco on Chatroulette, which is the New Thing
chat roulette from Casey Neistat on Vimeo.
A ha, so this is where the delightful Edward Gorey’s Trouble With Tribbles came from
THE AWESOME POWER OF RUGBY TECHNO: a website that syncs up random youtube rugby clips to random youtube techno music. 90% RAD.
Chap-hop history by Mr B. the Gentleman Rhymer on the Banjolele.
Choose Your Own Adventure Books, analysed and visualised.
Science geek girl makes her own wedding a biochemical experiment
A subsubsubculture you never knew about: competitive book-cart drills for librarians (via Salon)
Via our friends at Filament – UK media ignores sexiest male farmer, lavishes attention on sexiest female farmer
Relatedly, girls in bikinis perform The Big Lebowski. To sell bikinis, apparently. But I dunno man but watch it but.
Repton last week made two posts that I really appreciated: this one about anonymity on the web (technical stuff here, beware) and this one straight after about some highlights from the Lateral Science collection of wild science-related things.
Where media slant comes from – with graphs
Have you seen this video showing just how much TV is shot green-screen? Will blow your mind. When filming TV, it is now easier and cheaper to hang up a green curtain in a back lot and CGI the street in, than to actually go down to an ordinary street corner.
And you have probably seen this wonderful music video featuring a human-sized Rube Goldberg/Heath Robinson contraption, too, but if not:
And finally… via high priest of this blog, David R: Bob Dylan and Stephen Merchant perform Mama Said Knock You Out for LL Cool J.