To Come To The Aid Of The Linky

My grandfather Percy loved his typewriters, and went through a large number of them over the years. When he first typed “Now is the time for all good men to come to the aid of the party” I had no idea what it meant but didn’t ask. What kind of party would need help, small me wondered. Was pass-the-parcel going wrong? Pin-the-tail-on-the-donkey spinning wildly out of control?
(Internet, he say: it comes from a very early typing demonstration.)
Shoggoths: what we know from fiction.
Real-life shoggoth in the arctic.
Real-life shoggoth in the sewers.
Classic romance comics reveal all the reasons why chicks cry. Related: 1963 Aussie govt paper on why women shouldn’t be trade commissioners.
101 Muppets of Sesame Street – mouseover for first appearance details.
A Michael Jackson response that won’t make you feel dirty inside. Also: Sadhbh gets shirty with the MJ hypocrites.
PBS interview with health insurance insider about their panic over Michael Moore’s “Sicko”. Incredible account of how PR is done by big interests, how politicians get pulled onside, how a campaign strategy is run, etc. Includes links to actual internal documents that present their response strategy in powerpoint slides.
In honour of Flight of the Conchords getting some emmy noms, here’s an a capella take on “Friends”.

Captain Kirk follows Wesley Crusher. Something about this makes me very happy and I don’t give the slightest hoot about Trek.
Index of Alan Moore stuff that is free online.
And finally… a five-minute video of video game history with Super Mario leghumping! And WTF! W! T! F! For five minutes! And this was meant to be the beginning of a srs doco!
And finally finally… play Helen off, keyboard cat