End of the Long Count, baby. Waste some time as the world comes crashing down with linky distractions!
It ain’t the Mayan apocalypse that’s destroying the world, anyway. George Monbiot reckons the real culprit is those rubbish Christmas presents you buy when you’ve run out of ideas.
William S. Burroughs reads his short story, The Junky’s Christmas. Plus claymation.
Captain America’s diary comic (by Robyn E. Kennealy)
This Homeland Security video is kind of amazing
A very short interactive text story about a round-headed kid who really wants to kick a football (by Tof Eklund)
These pics of the Syrian civil war are gloomy, as you’d expect, but you have to see the home-made warfare device in pics 14-16… (via Kathleen)
Star Wars sequel debacle simulatron
NASA Gangnam Style riff is great fun
How many people are in space right now?
Check out also this tour of the International Space Station by its departing commander (via Nate)
Also from nate – an elegy for the web we lost. It really is a different online world out there compared to a decade ago.
What to do when the bus refuses to show up
Is evolutionary psychology worthless?
On the occasion of his 80th birthday, NZ’s official national wizard speaks vividly about what he’s been doing these past few decades. I find it weird that Gandalf is now more famous in NZ than our real-life official wizard.
Movie posters recreated at home
And finally, Christopher Lee’s Heavy Metal Christmas Songs
(Merry christmas & happy new year folks. I’m off on holiday for a bit so no bloggery for a little while.)