1) A random comic generator. NSFW.
2) Things said by and to a two-year-old, as graphic design posters.
3) Was 2014 the Year of the Video Essay? Who knew? How to make a great video essay: Video (naturally)
4) A long run down a concrete luge in New Zealand. Video.
5) Artist adds cute illustrations to photos on Instagram. So cool.
6) Google maps for fantasy spaces. Cute.
1) Get your rage on with this complete ranking over every Star Trek episode ever.
2) 22 pictures that prove we live in the future.
3) There’s an “atmospheric river” flooding California.
4) What colour is it? The time of day expressed as a hexidecimal color.
5) Pixel art illustrations that tell a personal story.
6) The relationship between coffee and mesmerism, and the importance of morning rituals. Video.
1) Man mounts paper coffee cup on his car, tweets people’s responses.
2) How does a 150 ft oil drilling rig disappear into a lake that’s only ten feet deep? h/t @CEMurphy
3) Is everything good about Minecraft gone? This piece echoes my earlier post about buying my son an Xbox, and I agree that Minecraft has changed as third parties set up their own servers. My son plays a game that’s a lot like The Hunger Games, and doesn’t build nearly as much as he used to. He still builds, but there’s a lot of PvP, too.
4) Typeset in the Future: ALIEN edition.
5) Dutch real estate broker installs mini-rollercoaster into home to give prospective buyers a tour. Video. As stunts go, this one is terrific.
6) Ugly Christmas sweaters are the new thing, so why not turn them into men’s suits? (That’s a rhetorical question.)
7) Ben Edelman, Harvard Business School Professor, Goes to War Over $4 Worth of Chinese Food. You can be very very wrong while being right.
1) An entire Tumblr dedicated to the question of whether MilSF author Myke Cole lays eggs.
2) Stan Lee responds to people who ask him when he’s going to retire. Video.
3) Dewitos: Doritos-flavored Mountain Dew.
4) Seventeen-year-old wins science competition by building an efficient algae biofuel lab in her bedroom. I hope this kid becomes a billionaire.
5) Do you get your hair cut at a barber? How to talk your barber about the haircut you want. Includes a helpful video.
7) The novel then steps back in time to explain how Rico went from being just another one of Heinlein’s incurious teenaged dullards to an enthusiastic war criminal. In the process, it paints an interesting picture of the world Rico lives in, as well as of the contents of Heinlein’s id. James Nicoll reviews Starship Troopers.
1) World’s Worst Playgrounds h/t @cstross
2) Maps of modern cities drawn in JRR Tolkien’s style.
3) How to “gird your loins,” in illustrated form..
4) Norman Rockwell’s Saturday Evening Post cover art with DC Comics characters.
6) An internet glossary, from The Toast.
7) The Zero Stooges (aka The Three Stooges Minus Stooges). Video.
1) The 50 Dorkiest Songs You Love. NB: you don’t have to tell me you personally don’t love some or all of them. I know.
2) Edgar Wright – How to do visual comedy. Video. This is excellent and shows why I find modern comedy so incredibly boring.
3) Joaquin Phoenix’s Forehead (Rotated). Video. So weird and funny.
4) Anonymous Gods. The computers at Google automatically blur the faces of famous religious statuary.
5) Netflix’s new spoiler website. #spoilers
6) Malkovitch Malkovitch Malkovitch Malkovitch.
7) Robert Heinlein, L. Ron Hubbard, Charles Manson & the Birth of Cults
1) X-men mashed up with The Smiths.
2)
Five Classic Authors Who Hated Their Book Covers (and One Who Got His Ass Kicked as a Result)
3) Scrublands: photographs of people who live off the grid.
4) Rupert Giles plans coursework for an MLS.
5) Everything you need to know about 5th ed D&D.
6) Beautiful animated gifs. h/t @keithcalder
7) “Every year, Americans spend nearly three times as much on candy as they do on public libraries.”
Guy writes interactive novel about mystery-solving teddy bears in Venice, which is apparently not for children(?)
Reviewer gives it a mildly negative review.
Author loses his mind in comments.
This is from last May, and I’m not sure how I missed it. It’s the perfect example of the ABM, Author’s Big Mistake, in which an author takes great pains to try to school the reviewer in all their numerous errors but ends up looking like a complete tool. As it so often is, Dunning-Kruger Effect is in full swing here. The writer thinks his book about teddy bears is on the level of Keats or Fitzgerald, and nothing can convince him otherwise.
This train wreck comes to you courtesy of @Hello_Tailor, @Stacia_jones_, and @jamesdnicoll.
1) Gambit’s costume is completely ridiculous, so this guy made one. h/t James Nicoll.
2) If David Lynch directed Dirty Dancing. Video.
3) Black leather dragon backpack. I’d get this, but it would make the toddlers in the Starbucks cry.
4) What your favorite 80s band says about you. This is better than it has a right to be.
6) Guardians of the Galaxy and The Lego Movie: the same movie.
7) Was HP Lovecraft a good writer? Nick Mamatas makes the argument that he was.
1) A People’s History of Tattooine.
2) Batman’s mask would be good protection for Bruce Wayne’s secret identity, according to SCIENCE!
3) Scully likes Science (remix). Video.
4) Enjoy some pix of the world’s largest aquatic insect.
5) Hugo-winning author Lawrence Watt-Evans has been posting the openings to his many works in progress. Instructive.
6) “The Denny,” an advanced bicycle prototype designed for dark, hilly Seattle.
7) CG Deadpool test footage. I’d happily watch this.