Friday the 13th Linky

This seems like a crazy-fun toy: xtranormal‘s web app lets you make movies by clicking options and typing dialogue.
Flickr’s Growing Up Star Wars pool, consisting of many photos of 70s kids in Star Wars t-shirts holding their Chewbacca action figures. And lots of weirder stuff too. Love it.
Newish Kiwi politics blog (of lefty persuasion), Kiwipolitico, is getting some good discussion of some tricky issues. Occasional commenter here Anita is one of the key bloggers there. Worth checking out if you’re interested in the big Kiwi conversation but want to avoid the sewers.
These popped up in a couple of places lately, including from beloved leader, because they are that awesome they deserve to be seen by many. Retro book cover designs for 80s films (and more recent films too). Example:

An incredible collection of photos of New York through the 20th century. There’s heaps of them all on the page so it’ll take a while for all of them to load.
The new Scott Pilgrim is out: and now Scott, Ramona, Knives et al. are in Cubecraft form! Cubecraft is an amazing little place where you can print out and fold up box-type models of all your favourite characters. It’s really quite something. Check out the range!
Off-Black explains the greatest drinking game of all time.
And finally… the MIghtyGodKing explains levels of nerdity. With helpful examples.