Friday Linky returns! It took a break last Friday because MICROSOFT vs ZONEALARM FIGHT BATTLE happened, but now I am guns blazing, roofs raising and links… er… liaising.
Workers in the programming mines will appreciate Flatlander’s account of the secret origins of his programming career:
As a poor Victorian youth, Mr Babbage (bless ‘im) used me and my fellow urchins to demonstrate the principles of the Analytical Engine to the nobs. “You pretend to be wheel number six,” he’d say. “When young Pip next to you carries the ten, you adds one to yourself, and when you gets up to ten, you lets Randolph here know about it.
Delightful photogallery of geeks, in costume, in their own homes. . Steve Schofield is the photog. After seeing this, you will never again need to see an artfully-framed photograph of a klingon in the kitchen.
The Alligator has been blogging lately of miracle fruit, the weirdo fruit that makes sour things taste sweet. If you were as puzzled as me, the AV Club does an extensive taste test.
This one is basically just for Pearce. A blog about a dude watching all 73 “video nasties” banned in the UK in the 80s. Featuring lurid movie posters!
You’re already watching Dr Horrible, right? It’s a singing superhero short film in three parts, written by Joss Whedon and starring Doogie Howser, Captain Tightpants and Cute Girl What Was In Buffy Season 7. Viewable free of any charge up until Sunday night (U.S. time). Very worth your while.
And last… well, I hesitate to link to this because the site is loaded with popups and weirdness. In fact, I don’t recommend clicking on this link unless your virus security is up to date because, man, something untoward is going on with all that code. But I’m going to link to it anyway because the photos are interesting. It’s a “door to hell” in Russia – a big gouge in the earth that’s been aflame for 35 years. Weird, beautiful, unsettling.
Go Dr Horrible!
Also, I’ve been planning to get some miracle fruit in me hands for a while. Hope to do a thursday foodblog post on it!
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That’s where she’s from. I knew the girl in Dr Horrible looked familiar but I couldn’t work out where I had seen her.
Those costume photos are lovely…
I was going to say the photos are lovely, but it’s already been said…
But they so are. I am so glad the world has people like that in it!!
Cheers dude. I wonder when he’ll get around to the completely non-sequitur entry “I Miss You, Hugs and Kisses” (the Nasty list was dependent on complaints from the public so all kinds of shit got on there).
He describes “Fight for Your Life” as a “powerful and courageous political work”, which probably proves that watching too many of these movies really DOES rot your brain. 😛
And he give “The Witch Who Came from the Sea” a good review! Remember when we watched that in Brooklyn, Morgue? I think you walked out on it after about 1/2 an hour, so you missed out on what was probably the most evil childhood trauma scene ever committed to film.
Gif: go miracle fruit!
Debz: she was also in that online world of warcraft series, Guilds I think it was called. (I watched the first couple minutes.)
Michael/Karen: aren’t they, though? There’s something very refreshing about them – certainly not mocking, but not defensive at all either.
Pearce: I remember leaving Witch unfinished but can’t remember what my motivation was. I think I was just lost and confused by the whole thing? I have vivid memories of the parts I saw, maybe I need to watch it in full someday…
that door to hell is freaky. and fingers crossed my computer survived.
Oh, so that’s where Felicia Day came from. I never got round to Buffy 7, but The Guild is fabbo.
Dr Horrible rocks. Roll on Episode 3!
I just watched the Guild last night. Each episode is under 5 min, so quick to watch!