- Our Doors are now Opening! | Organization for Transformative Works
While reading some works by other people who share my felings about Dreamwidth’s importation policies, I ran across this fun little argument. In a nutshell, a bunch of authors in the fanfiction community were upset that the Organization for Transformative Works was going to start copying entire archives, and only after the fact giving authors a way to opt-out.
- tbfs. • The Quick Brown Fox Jumps Over the Lazy Dog.
This wins the internet, hands down.
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Dalek the Halls? Tis the Season to Be Exterminated?
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Foster, the dwarf hamster farmer. I’ll leave you to read the post to figure out how to parse that sentence.
- The Art of Glitch | Indiegogo
The recently concluded MMO Glitch is crawdfunding a book of art from the game. Beautiful stuff.
- The Non-Libertarian FAQ (aka Why I Hate Your Freedom)
A thorough rebuttal of libertarianism. Worth the read, even if you don’t care one way or the other about the arguments presented.
- Clint Holmes’ mother, Audrey, dies at 95 – Entertainment / Neon – ReviewJournal.com
My high-school voice teacher died last fall, and I didn’t even hear about it.
- Slayer’s heavy metal Christmas sweater – Boing Boing
Heavy metal sweater. ‘Nuff said.
- YES! It’s the TARDIS PC! • The Register
If I still used a desktop system maybe I’d shell out for this. Maybe.
- WRENCH WEDDING BAND with Genuine Sapphire A real by BandScapes
If I were in the market for a wedding band I’d definitely give this one the once-over.
- Peanuts Sherlock – Like a rolling stone
Great mashup of the modern Sherlock and the classic Peanuts.
- Who Mary Sue Isn’t at SF Novelists
A good analysis of the Mary-Sure phenomenon and how it gets overused in criticism.
- World-Shaker – The second sharpest criticism of a research paper…
“You didn’t submit a research paper. You submitted a hostage situation.”
- epic movie. – tiedye skin
Man in Black brand Iocaine Powder!
- Trollbeads (Troldekugler) – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Huh. So these are the people who invented the charm bracelet.
Tag: links
Delicious Links for 2012-12-01
- Daniel Cook – Google+ – A recent question has been “Why don’t you just sell Triple…
A unique look at the business of selling games, and continuing to sell games. Prompted by TinySpeck’s decision to close Glitch (a game I was just starting to get into) and put a friend of mine out of work.
- brienicole’s deviantART gallery
Most parents, on hearing their child say “I want to be a Dalek princess”, would have said “That’s silly honey.” But not this mom.
- The Rasterbator 1.2 at arje.net
Also prompted by Glitch’s closing, this program can turn any mid-sized image into a full-sized wall poster (or mural, or fresco, or …)
- How do japanese multiply?? – YouTube
Wow! I hope I’m someday in a position to use this in a classroom. It may not be practical for bigger numbers, but it’s a great way to think about multiplication.
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Absolutely adorable Calvin and Hobbes costumes.
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Sort of like cash back on a car purchase, except smaller and bigger at the same time.
- Taidhm Bharp Lurgan – TG Lurgan – Cainéal na Gaeilge – YouTube
The “Time Warp” in Irish!
- Eat Rabbit Justice, Hound (Mmm… Marginalia #82) — Got Medieval
A great blog filed with analysis of the marginal illustrations of Medieval manuscripts. Also, very weird.
- Geofftech – Tube – Silly Tube Maps
A collection of variations on the famous London Underground map. Due to various legal machinations, this is actually the third mirror of the original site.
- On The Precipice of Adventure
I don’t know what it is, but its kind of catchy!
- Connectors, Stage Pin – ControlBooth
A brief history of the common stage-pin connector used in theatre.
- ThereAndBackAgain2010_b.jpg (JPEG Image, 1920 × 1080 pixels) – Scaled (67%)
A London Underground-style map of a subway system for Middle Earth.
Morgin/ Martan Freeman
Discovered Morph Thing today. I remember when this kind of technology took rows upon rows of computers, and when I was a kid a free program that could do rudimentary face morphs was the cutting edge of home image manipulation. Now, it’s a web app.
Delicious Links for 2012-10-06
- Psychedelic Fluorescent Purple Frog Found in Suriname – Living the Scientific Life (Scientist, Interrupted)
A beautiful new frog discovered in the wilds of South America.
- The most amazing Halloween costume ever
Someday, I will be in a position to do something like this, and it will be awesome.
- Noteflight – Sherlock Theme
I’ve often said I was amazed at how the internet was great at sharing complete musical compositions but really awful at sharing sheet music. This website seems like a pretty good solution, and to boot someone shared the theme to the BBC’s recent series of “Sherlock”
- …My heart’s in Accra » TSA Pre-Check, Fairness and Opaque Algorithms
Is it worth applying for the TSA Pre-Check service, or the Customs and Immigration Global Traveler program? The answer may be yes personally, but no in terms of the system as a whole.
- 36″ x 30″ Mission Wood Bookcase Red Oak by Forest Designs – 1-800-460-0858 – Free Shipping – Office Furniture 2go.com
Nice bookcases.
- Book of Odds – How Risky Is an Escalator Ride?
But reading in the last article that flying is safer than riding an escalator, I realized that there must be actual statistics for how likely you are to die from riding the escalator.It’s a one in ninety million chance, but it can happen to you.
- Cookie Monster and Grover take on ‘The Avengers,’ ‘The Hunger Games,’ and more…in song! | PopWatch | EW.com
I might be the last person on the internet to have seen this,but it’s hilarious.
- Discovery Channel’s ‘Curiosity’ takes the viewer inside a jet crash
I saw this link earlier in the week [ http://cahwyguy.livejournal.com/1552538.html ] and found it rather fascinating.
- Gladiator Ariel, and other crazy designs from a nonexistent Disney Princess fighting game
I don’t have any interest in fighting games anymore, but if this were real I’d get it for my sister-in-law.
- His Name Is Robert Downey Jr. « Quest for Kindness
A beautiful true story about the day a young Robert Downey Jr. helped an injured senior citizen while at a party.
- MAKE | Soundwave bracelets
I love the idea of turning a soundwave into a bracelet. I wonder how granular it is, what woudl happen if you tried to play back the bracelet.
- File:Venn diagram gr la ru.svg – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The intersection of Greek, Cyrillic, and Latin alphabets.
- Marc SIMONETTI – Tagged Terry Pratchett
I don’t know if these are actual book covers, or just artist’s pieces, but these covers to assorted Discworld novels are fantastic.
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I don’t know what kind of rodent this is, but it’s absolutely the cutest thing I’ve seen all week.
- Max Raabe – We Will Rock You – YouTube
If Freddie mercury had lived in the Weimar Republic it might have sounded something like this.
- How To Steal The Space Shuttle: A Step-By-Step Guide
And today’s big internet sensation, a feasible plan to steal the space shuttle Endeavour.
Delicious Links for 2012-05-03
- Lincoln High School in Walla Walla, WA, tries new approach to school discipline — suspensions drop 85% « ACEs Too High
This is fantastic. I need to do some more reading, but on the face of it this makes a lot of sense.
Delicious Links for 2012-05-02
- YKK zippers: Why so many designers use them. – Slate Magazine
The history and business practices of the world’s best zippers.
- The History of Key Design: From Ancient Wooden Rods to the Hotel Keycard – Slate Magazine
This reminds me of the time Gill and I were walking around that Scottish castle and we left just before closing time. They had already shut the gates for the evening, so the gatekeeper pulled out this gigantic key that must have been ten inches long and about ten pounds of brass to unlock the gate.
The best thing I’ve ever seen on Tumblr
So good I had to share. Originally by mrsaberhagen at this post.
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Delicious Links for 2012-04-26
- Cinco de Mayo piñata cookies
These are awesome and I hope we can try make these happen for the party on Saturday.
Delicious Links for 2012-04-25
- Followup: Ultraviolet Vision After Cataract Surgery – Slashdot
After successful cataract surgery, this gentleman is now able to see deeper into the ultraviolet range of color than is considered human.
- Cataract Surgery with Crystalens – MY DETAILED EXPERIENCE!
After successful cataract surgery, this gentleman is now able to see deeper into the ultraviolet range of color than is considered human. Part 2
- Monet’s Ultraviolet Eye – Download The Universe
Apparently, at the age of 82 Monet had radical cataract surgery for the time – he had the entire lens removed from his left eye. With no cataracts (or lens) he was able to perceive color again, including the ultraviolet that the lens had previously blocked.
- Music FAILS: Lil’ Rammstein – EPIC FAIL Funny Videos and Epic Fail Funny Pictures
A Rammstein cover band made up of under-ten year olds. Not great, but really inspired.
- 6 Nobodies Who Turned Into Superheroes without Warning | Cracked.com
#4 is the story that makes me stop and think. A widower who lost his wife to a likely suicide patrols the East Sussex Cliffs, trying to prevent other suicides.
“Completely untrained in counseling, Lane has so far managed to prevent 29 people from leaping off the cliff. In his first year of punching suicide in the face, he received a Royal Humane Society Award for tackling a woman about to go over the edge, which sort of explains the ‘untrained in counseling’ bit.”
- NUKEMAP by Alex Wellerstein
A handy little reference/ fun toy if you want to see how likely you are to get caught in the blast radius of a nuclear war.
Delicious Links for 2012-04-24
- BBC News – Leader of ‘radical’ US nuns rejects Vatican criticism
The Vatican is accusing some nuns of stretching the teachings of the church to support a radical agenda. Honestly, I’m rooting for the nuns.
- Feel Somebody Good Inc. (cover) by Lakyn Heperi on SoundCloud – Create, record and share your sounds for free
A fun mash-up of the Gorillaz “Feel Good Inc” and Gotye’s “Somebody That I Used to Know”
- Robo-Readers Used to Grade Test Essays – NYTimes.com
However it is presented, the fact that automated essay-grading automatons can be fooled by the use of long words and even longer sentences is a serious blow to the advancement of the idea of human-free assessment.