Sunday linkpharm:
- Halloween aftershocks:
- Words:
- Alternate Endings to Famous Literary Works as Written by a 115-Year-Old with a Grudge [via]
- Cafepress shut down parody t-shirts for non-existent drug [via]
- The Strange Case of the Spoofer Captured by a Spoof:
As a comedian, actor and satirist, Chris Elliott has made a career out of blurring the line between truth and absurdity. As a novelist, he has unintentionally fuzzied things further by falling for an online spoof and incorporating a fictional robot into his book as a historical figure.
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- Pictures:
- Sounds:
- Mr. Britney Spears raps [via] I think we can all be excused from caring.
- In Search of Bill Watterson (and his mom) [via]
- Experimental Ring Tones, including George W. Bush’s now infamous “Brownie, you’re doing a heck of a job” [via]
- Video:
- Quotes:
- “You know you are famous when you discover you have become a comic book character.” – Nelson Mandela [via]
- “There is a world in which publishers let me choose typefaces, but I’m afraid it’s also the world in which the Second World War was decisively won by the Belgian-Martian alliance.” – Neil Gaiman
- “Oprah has the power to lay waste to entire industries with a mere utterance. That’s a power that you have to respect. And ultimately I respect it.” – Aaron McGruder [registration of BugMeNot required]
- Games:
- Monkey Maze [via]
- Escapa! [via]
- Other Stuff:
- What does Bush keep in his pockets? [via] Sadly, not a banana.
- Sword swallowing uncertainties [via] (The copyeditor in me wants to point out “sword-swallowing” should probably be hyphenated.)
- A 10-year-old geography hero
- The Molecule of the Month [via]
- God of the Month [via]
- 1.5m Chinese ‘descendants of one man’ [via]
- Razzle Dazzle Camouflage1 [via]
- 240-acre underground UK bunker-city for sale [via]
1Also of interest to WWI naval buffs: Concrete Ships from my friend Rob