- I think this Arcade Fire video/Chrome plugin would seem neater to me if Google Street View had been to my neighborhood.
- Then again, if you want to see where Street View has been, you could do a lot worse than the random shuffle that is Globe Genie. [via]
- Google (and everybody else) better be careful when driving in Vancouver… [via]
- Meanwhile, over the summer, Google Maps “lost” a major Florida city. [via]
- And finally, xkcd’s revised online communities map. Are we sensing a theme to today’s links?
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Tuesday various
- Roger Ebert: No Longer an Eater, Still a Cook
- I’ve been told that the best thing to do when you get an earworm is to sing or hum “The Girl from Ipanema.” Of course, then you get that stuck in your head. Unhear It seems to work along similar reasoning. [via]
- Worried about full-body scans at the airport? Okay, now imagine that technology deployed in street-roving vans. [via]
- Mysterious full-size Dalek replica left anonymously at English school.
- And finally, herding cats in IKEA [via]:
Wednesday various
- John Scalzi on Why Not Feeling Rich Is Not Being Poor.
- Meanwhile, he also shares the delightfully named Polemical Sparkle Ponies.
- Is most of Bono’s non-profit’s money going towards salaries and press kits instead of to the needy? [via
- The Fox News Enemies of America Venn Diagram
- And finally, this just seems weird:
The film [Alpha and Omega], directed by Anthony Bell and Ben Gluck, does have one innovation, an aural tic that sounds more bizarre each time you hear it: When the wolves howl, they do so not in animal tones but in the wordless woh-woh’s of bland ’80s R&B.
Tuesday various
- Frankly, I can’t believe the Monty Python guys haven’t hit upon this reunion idea before.
- The Reverse Geocache Puzzle Box [via]
- Strange things are afoot at the Circle K. I have to admit, the idea of another Bill & Ted movie does not seem like such a terrible idea to me. Even if it maybe is twenty years too late…
- MetroNorth and the LIRR Have Spent $300,000 Repairing People’s Pants. I can believe it, though it’s never happened to me.
- And finally, Cynical-C on Stand By Me:
This movie isn’t about a group of kids and their journey of self-discovery but of a serial killing train engineer who runs down prepubescent boys on railroad tracks. They’ve stumbled upon the Union Pacific Killer.
See also today’s Hark! A Vagrant.
Monday various
- Robots with synthetic skin? [via]
- They don’t build safes like they used to.
- Underground chefs? I had no idea, but apparently, there are more than a few. [via]
- If you’re going to hack an electronic voting machine, this is the way to do it. [via]
- And finally, the YouTube Time Machine. [via]