True Linky For Friday

I really enjoyed this funny and spirited takedown of Taylor Swift, wholesome singer/songwriter, winner of lotsa music awards, the one who Kanye generously let finish. Nail-on-head moment: “This is perhaps her music’s most grating sin: the sex-shaming girl-bashing passed off as outsider insecurity.”
Bryan Talbot’s Torquemada comic-format pick-a-path from oddball 80s comic/game hybrid Diceman, online in animated form.
A research report from the new economics foundation in the UK that develops a new metric for evaluating the worth to society of various jobs, and concludes that “Elite City bankers (earning £1 million-plus bonuses) destroy £7 of value for every £1 they create.” I’m only about half-way through the report itself but recommend you at least click through for the summary.
Incredible model photography.
Check out this game by friend-of-FromTheMorgue Matt C: Scrambled. Guide a robot through a tricky environment. Anyone who has played the boardgame Robo Rally will grok this instantly. Neat fun!
How-to guide to falling out of a plane and surviving
Infographic that powerfully demonstrates the depth of the ocean.
Infographic that powerfully demonstrates that it’s an infographic.
Yes, the 90s really did suck a whole lot: Alien 3, the Pepsi commercial

One of the things I like doing after a Friday linky is scanning the departures. I feel happy when it shows that every linky had a few people check it out. But last week there were no recorded clickthroughs on the enigmatically unexplained linky Boomdeyada. So here’s the explain: Discovery Channel made an amazing promo featuring all their scientist-types singing about what is cool about the world. Then lovely webcomic XKCD made a comic version giving props to the Discovery channel. Then someone else made an animated version of the XKCD comic. Then some other people made a new version of the song about how they love XKCD. It’s wicked. Watch all of them. And yes, that last one includes a few famous folk, at least famous in geek-type circles.
And finally… a blog devoted to analysis and discussion of men wearing gorilla suits

7 thoughts on “True Linky For Friday”

  1. That’s still better than Alien: Resurrection, although mainly through having 100% less Wynona Ryder.

  2. Bommdeyada: It’s not that I wasn’t interested, just that I’d seen a link to it from elsewhere. 🙂

  3. Andrew: I still have a soft spot for Alien Resurrection. I like on the DVD special features how Winona explains that she stole lots of things from the set as memorabilia…
    Steph: Yeha, Boomdeyada has been linked all over the show, because it’s wunnerful. 🙂

  5. That Torquemada Dice man is the bomb – I see Rebellion have reprinted it as part of their rather superb Collected Nemesis the Warlock series. One of the cool things about Pat Mills is his willingness to adopt new narrative styles from time to time, and IIRC the Diceman 2000AD spin-off was largely his doing. I’m not sure if they also reprinted the Slaine-themed adventure in the recent Slaine reprint collections or not. I know they didn’t do that with the ABC warriors volumes (bah).
    I gather the Diceman comic’s not that easy to come by now, and there’s probably not the interest level to reproduce it in full, so good find!

  6. Already seen the modelling link, strangely enough on one of the modelling forums I inhabit. Doesn’t make it any less spectacular. I don’t do cars generally, but if I did I’d be aiming for something like that standard.

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