Links for October 27, 2011:
*The joy of illustration: Read this story about how “The Joy of Sex” was illustrated. That initial beard pic is a real boner-killer (please excuse the phrase). [coudal] *Swirling eyeballs: Can you use...
View ArticleVideo: Mad Men without January Jones
Brilliant. Along the lines of Garfield Minus Garfield, this video explores the idea of absence (rather than the usual mere vacuousness!). [pop loser] Tagged: betty draper, don draper, january jones,...
View ArticleLinks for October 28, 2011: Let’s play with Diamond Dave’s crotch
*Games: The Van Halen edition of Asteroids, Assteroidz, entails shooting bullets out of Diamond Dave’s crotch. *Connectivity: The average smartphone user checks their phone 40 times a day. *Fashion:...
View ArticleLinks for October 31, 2011: Slutty Krueger
*Kickstarter: Today, I gave money to a Kickstarter project that will fund Flummox and Friends (from Christa Dahlstrom), a “live-action comedy designed to help kids navigate the social and emotional...
View ArticleLinks for November 2, 2011: Eating glass, walking on hair
*Shockers: The headline of this article says it all – Did you know that hard candy is actually a glass? I’ve never eaten glass, but I have had my car windows smashed twice in the last five years. Odd...
View ArticleLinks for November 3, 2011: Racists and breastfeeding
*Note: Please note that while these links and lines appear short, I believe they are as good as any ever here collected. (They’re just OK.) *Images: This paper art from Nick Georgiou is gorgeous....
View ArticleLinks for November 4, 2011: George, Teddy, Thomas and Abe
Monuments: Read up on the making of Mount Rushmore if you love America. (Don’t pay to see Crazy Horse. My two cents. Or ten bucks a person, as it were.) [mefi] Photos: These pictures from Alexis Mire...
View ArticleLinks for November 6, 2011: Nickelback, Smerdyakov, Sausage parties and John...
Experimentation: Bohemian Rhapsichord turns Bohemian Rhapsody into an instrument. That is sort of fun to play with. The interface reminds me of an Andrew Kuo infographic. [waxy] Rock: 41,000 football...
View ArticleLinks for November 9, 2011: Being Barbie, bathing in ketchup fountains,...
Facebook: How many times have I, here, mentioned that I quit Facebook? And that my life is better for it? Typography: Mayuko, a student at a Japanese university, has created a font out of leg hair....
View ArticleLinks for November 16, 2011: Double shower head, single dog’s head and how to...
Running: I have begun running and I loathe myself for it. Utterly. (Close readers of the listenerd (ha) may recall having read a little something about this.) No one – and I mean NO ONE – captures the...
View ArticleLinks for December 2, 2011: The godfather of the straw, and other sucky tales
Sports: Green Bay Packers quarterback Aaron Rodgers owns a record label? [daily swarm] Visuals: This one goes out to all of you penis lovers! Peruse – and re-order! – the 9 greatest penis moments in...
View ArticleLinks for December 7, 2011: When should one STOP blogging?
Thinking: This project, by Gaelan Kelly, has my attention! (And that’s saying something at this point.) It’s called “NPR: How the Voices Look in My Head,” and as you might guess, it consists of...
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