Linky Malinki

Slinky Malinki is a great name for a cat, it really is.
It’s my older brother’s birthday today. Happy birthday big bro. Here is something cool from your year of birth.

In odd game-to-media adaptation news:
Ridley Scott’s movie based on Monopoly – the plot! (Aside: Check out this Cornell University study revealing that between 2% and 20% of Monopoly games can never end!)
What’s the next project for Dave Gibbons, genius artist best known for making Watchmen with Alan Moore? How about a new adventure based on everyone’s second-favourite built-in Windows procrastination tool, Minesweeper!
(Man, I’ve just realized that the Asteroids movie would be perfect for Michael Bay. The source material literally consists of nothing but big rocks exploding, and then a spaceship exploding at the end. PERFECT.)
Whoa. Some movie exec thought it would be a good idea to get H.R. Giger to redesign the Batmobile. Not the best idea actually
Hey, write your own Ain’t It Cool News movie review with this handy template!
Awesome clip of Mos Def, Black Thought and Eminem freestyling (in the “I’m cool” mode of Cypher, not the “you suxxor” mode of Battling)
For anyone visiting London: the ultimate uncluttered tube map. I might have used this…
Reading the Maps has been knocking out incredibly content-rich, thoughtful posts about events in NZ and around the world. Check out this response to the scandal of students dressing up like Nazis, and this wry discussion of whether Pope Ratzinger is actually a Marxist. Essential reading for the NZ crowd, I reckon.
And finally… would you buy a used car from this Cuban gynaecologist?