Affable Linky

Some reasons to make your Friday a little bit hyperlinked:
This chart from a 1949 issue of Life magazine explains how you tell apart the High-Brow from the Low-Brow (and Brow levels in between) using everyday tastes.
Whoa. Use a slider to zoom in from a grain of rice to an atom. This gives me vertigo like crazy. Wildly cool.
I’ll quickly do some of my work for the illuminati by spreading some climate change linky: Climate Progress reviews Climate Cover-Up: The Crusade To Deny Global Warming. Great review of what sounds like a fascinating book. The PR activity here is endlessly fascinating. (Also covered at Hot Topic.) A good source for the science of climate change, based on the authorities I trust, is Sceptical Science. And how about the EU offering to cut carbon emissions by 95% over the next 40 years? Conversation is getting sharper out there.
40 seconds of genius at work: Herge draws Tintin and Snowy. The amount of control the man has is glorious to watch, not a single movement of the pen is wasted.

Jon Hodgson knocks out “Fantasy Art For Beginners” from IMPACT! Books. Looks great if you’re an arty sort, or want to be! He posts about it here and here.
Incredible Making Light post looking into deaths at a new-age sweat lodge ceremony – the dodgy guy behind it, his Oprah-boosted profile, the concerns of the Native Americans about their traditions being misused and mishandled… What great investigative journalism looks like when it’s conducted with Google.
Disney Princesses, deconstructed.
Dungeons & Dragons Online is now free to play.
And finally… a 1962 U.S. high school textbook on love, dating, babies and more. Take the time to go through it page by page. It’s by turns shocking, hilarious, and… well, you’ll see.