Posts Tagged ‘Flickr’
Friday Morning!
* Waste your weekend the Manufactoria way. This is one of the best flash games I’ve ever played, I think—it hits the same sweet spot of manic focus for me as doing discrete math problems did back in college. (Thanks, Neil!)
* xkcd finds an impressive new angle on the ancient killing-Hitler time-travel gag.
* Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal has a clever about a cliched political metaphor.
* Photos of People Riding Invisible Bikes.
* Superhero photobombs. (Thanks, Lindsey!)
* Tom Chatfield interviews China Miéville.
Tom: Today, of course, you go online, and you can see that the Wikipedia entries for something like Star Trek: The Next Generation episodes are higher quality, better-referenced, longer and better-researched than many entries about the Second World War. You have this strange inversion in collective belief and emphasis, which ends up generating a lot more material a lot more confidently around the small stuff than the big stuff.
China: This is one of the bad things about the geekocratic moment. Even speaking as someone who loves geek culture at its best, nevertheless I think the sense of priorities is often skewed to the point of being demented.
Tom: Passion is very distorting. If the only reference you have is the strength of your own feeling, and you don’t temper it with something like a sense of social good or importance…
China: Yes, if you don’t contextualize it, it becomes disaggregated from totality—and ultimately it’s totality that one is interested in, social totality.
* And in a rare bit of good news: Justice Department Demands Florida Stop Purging Voter Rolls.
Nagoya
I’ve uploaded some pictures from my (wonderful!) trip to Japan to Facebook and Flickr. Now, to figure out some way to beat this jetlag…
Wish I Lived in Brooklyn
Flickr has your guide to Brooklyn street art. Via The Awl.
European-Style Photoblogging
I’ve finally thrown up some photos from our European vacation on Flickr, including (among other things) a lot of shots of those Belgian comics murals we were so taken with. Enjoy, if you’re so inclined…
Postcards from Orlando
Most of our time in Florida was spent at the actual conference itself—but we did take a few pictures, which are now at Flickr.
Friday Friday
Friday Friday.
* New York in the 1940s: a great Flickr set.
* Change we can believe in: President Obama has vetoed the Mutant Registration Act.
* Problems with secrecy in comics’ direct market.
* Homages to Ditko in the New Yorker.
* Ecocomics: a new blog devoted to the intersection of economics and comics regarding such questions as supernatural disaster insurance, the construction industry in the Marvel Universe, how Two-Face funds his crime sprees, and where the Canadian government get the money from to keep making super-soldiers.
* ‘The God That Failed:’ why we don’t live in space colonies.
Pictures of Albuquerque
With Durham looking like this:
(though increasingly less so), it seemed like a good time to put up some pictures from Albuquerque. Which I have done—here.
Link Dump #4, Son of the Mother of All Link Dumps
Link dump #4, son of the mother of all link dumps.
* Still another Pac-Man text adventure. (Previously.) See also: Guitar Hero as text adventure (1, 2).
* It turns out the Bush administration didn’t bother to keep case files on many of the prisoners in Guantánamo. Via Pandagon.
* Cultural treasures of New Jersey.
* Make Something Cool Every Day makes something cool every day.
* Crooker Timber had a Charlie Stross book event today with tons of links.
* Also at Crooked Timber: Should you delay parenthood till tenure?
Elektroschutz
Thirty ways to die of electrocution, via Elektroschutz in 132 Bildern. Via MeFi
Socotra Island
Dark Roasted Blend visits Socotra Island, which it calls “the most alien-looking place on Earth.”
Imagine waking up on the Socotra Island and taking a good look around you (let’s say your buddies pulled a prank on you and delivered you there, and lets also assume that you don’t have any hangover from abuse of any substances). After a yelp of disbelief, you’d be inclined to think you were transported to another planet – or traveled to another era of Earth’s history.
The second would be closer to the truth for this island, which is part of a group of 4 islands, has been geographically isolated from mainland Africa for the last 6 or 7 million years. Like the Galapagos Islands, this island is teeming with 700 extremely rare species of flora and fauna, a full 1/3 of which are endemic, i.e. found nowhere else on Earth.
Gerry Canavan 
