I’m setting this one to go live at the departure time of our flight – we’re doing a weekend in the South Island for a wedding. It’ll be the Wee Beastie’s first time on a plane. She’s pretty good at spotting them in the sky and is I think equal parts excited and intimidated by the prospect of being inside one of these noisy machines. Here’s hoping that excitement prevails.
Anyway, here’s some linky for your Friday. Raiding the earliest stuff in my linky folder, 2010 and 2011 links…
Inflatable bag monsters (via Leon)
Limericks using abbreviated names of US states
A simple model of cults of personality
Lego minifig art: cool photos, one-panel gags; the Little Artists, including a take on Hirst’s shark
A map of voices, using the story of Mr Tickle
Writers no-one reads (via Draw)
Hitchcock & Me – blogger reviewed everything Hitchcock did. That was in 2011, still going with a more general Hitchcock brief – there’s been a lot of Hitchcock happening lately, most recently the new show Bates Motel.
Colour idioms in different languages. Fascinating!
A 2006 essay tearing up the myth of the almighty MBA. One of the classic texts in the crowded (and still vibrant) arena of MBA-hate.
The craziest running race I’ve ever heard about. Beautiful, memorable article that I can’t believe I haven’t linky’d before now.
Okay, a few more recent links for those who like their internets freshly baked:
Russ Meyer meets Star Wars, in action figure form (via Andrew Watters)
Open-access academic journals are bringing with them some very dodgy operators
Ant Comics (via Andrew Salmond) – marvellous, just marvellous. There’s about a whole book’s worth of stuff here to read through.
The zombies bit you. You have a baby in your care. What do you do? An Aussie short film being widely circulated because it’s good.
The Apollo 11 lunar landing as it went down – marvellous, just marvellous. Wear headphones to track the separate audio channels.
The entire archive of Starlog magazine for free download at the Internet Archive.
And finally… in 2011, one blog did something amazing: ZARDOZ WEEK
Have a great break down south for the family Mr D!
Some great looking links here, and I’ll check them out later (sorry that sounds a bit lame) Mr Tickle is one of Jet Jr’s favourite Mr Men stories, so that might be a good start, but professionally the open-access journal article… very interesting premise, and definitely Relevant To My Interests.
Writers No-one Reads… should I feel proud or outraged as a NZer that we’re not in the country list?
I can’t stand the confusion in my mind!!
Those plastic bag monsters are my new favourite thing ever
The Hitchcock & Me blog has been deleted.
Hitchcock & Me is gone? So it is! I am stunned! Thursday night, as I was preparing this post, I clicked through to make sure it was still around and wandered through the last year of postings. The most recent post was a week or so old, about the first episode of Bates Motel.
Huh, it sits in my linky file for two years, but the very day I finally link it, it goes offline. Weird weird weird.
Hitchcock & Me still accessible via the Wayback Machine, of course: http://web.archive.org/web/20130114073540/http://hitchcockandme.wordpress.com/