I turned, if my calculations are correct, 37 this week. In my brain it feels like a perfectly balanced age, because 3+7=10. Throughout the coming year I will expect everything I do to be quickly matched by a complementary response.
Star Wars! Fan film of a lightsaber fight. Neat stuff, nicely done. Lens flares! (via Craig Oxbrow)
Explore gender bias in music playlists (via Nick Tipping)
A script for countering telemarketers. (this is old – I think I first saw it a full decade ago – but still good)
25 minority characters that Hollywood whitewashed – man, old Hollywood sure was racist, huh! It’s great that things have – oh wait. I’ve just reached the second half of the list. (via Sonal)
5 things about ubiquitous computing that make me nervous
Little girls dressed up as superheroes will never stop being awesome. Ballerina Hulk is the best ever.
Fully-dressed superheroines – this isn’t a new idea but these images have been massively discussed this week.
Was the Harlem Shake truly a viral phenomenon, or a corporate one? Is there even a difference any more? Forbes has some interesting comments to make.
Huey Lewis does American Psycho doing Huey Lewis This made me LAUGH. And it disturbed me. So that’s a win for them.
Some folks have made a viable random comic generator. I enjoyed clicking through for a while. It works because they’re really strict about the structure – first panel is always a setup, second is always a twist, third is always a resolution.
The Shadowy Residents of 1 Hyde Park (via mundens) – an interesting exploration of the super-super-rich. Curiously it has a very boring opening, while hiding a killer hook a few paras further down – The really curious aspect of One Hyde Park can be appreciated only at night. Walk past the complex then and you notice nearly every window is dark. As John Arlidge wrote in The Sunday Times, “It’s dark. Not just a bit dark—darker, say, than the surrounding buildings—but black dark. Only the odd light is on. . . . Seems like nobody’s home.”
The Guardian does a lovely infographic of 50 years of Doctor Who
Apparently Paul McCartney asked Delia Derbyshire to do a version of ‘Yesterday’?
Conspiracists ahoy – check out the fascinating multilayered links between Rosemary’s Baby, The Beatles White Album, and the Sharon Tate murder…
Oh, I missed this completely! The Edinburgh Book Sculptress made an encore appearance late last year.
Movie supercut of breaking the fourth wall
Game of Thrones cheat sheet for those starting s3
And finally, via theremina, Des Hommes Et Des Chatons
I am not watching the new Star Wars movies if they’re that lens flare-y (I am looking at you J.J….)!
Ok. Yeah, I probs will.
That list of whitewashed characters is ridiculous for suggesting that Laurence Olivier’s performance as Othello was great. It was a clusterfuck of racist stereotypes and nervous-tic bad acting, every bit as contemptible as Mickey Rooney’s.