- Presenting The Human Centipede Video Game. Warning: will spoil the movie (which in turn may spoil your appetite) and possibly your enjoyment of the original Centipede game.
- Marina Sirtis and Jonathan Frakes really do have great chemistry together. It’s almost enough to forgive their shared bathtub scene in Insurrection. They’re refreshingly candid and engaged.
- Meanwhile, I am not immune to the cuteness of the sloth.
- Juliette Wade on teeth in science fiction [via]
- And finally, ever wonder what happens in Disneyland after dark? (And no, it’s not that Cory Doctorow scales the fence and performs his technomagic in the forgotten recesses of Tomorrowland…although, can you prove that he doesn’t?) [via]
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Tuesday various
- Well this is disheartening:
“Legitimacy has shifted to the side of the climate skeptics, and that is a big, big problem,†Ben Stewart, a spokesman for Greenpeace, said at the meeting of environmentalists here. “This is happening in the context of overwhelming scientific agreement that climate change is real and a threat. But the poll figures are going through the floor.â€
- Know what’s not going through the floor? Vegetables grown upside-down, that’s what. (And how’s that for segues?)
- Two words: zombie astronauts. The auction has ended, but the dream lives on forever.
- Though I think maybe too much of the Internet is devoted to Super Mario Bros. — I know, heresy! — this study of in-game camera movement was surprisingly interesting and something I had never once considered before. [via]
- And finally, I have to say, ItsJustSomeRandomGuy has really outdone himself with his 100th video:
Tuesday various
- Flowers losing scent due to climate change? [via]
- Wow, if I’d known bribery was the way to get a textbook deal signed… I’m pretty sure none of our sales reps do this… [via]
- Here are two good tips on writing exposition [via]:
“Show don’t tell” is a cliche for a reason
Thursday various
- I’ve been having a lot of fun using my iPad this past week, but it’s never occurred to me to embed it in a kitchen cabinet. This is simultaneously a ridiculous and very cool use of the device.
- Also at the crossroads of the ridiculous and very cool (with a little bit of creepy thrown in): Dinseyland’s new Living Character technology. There is a little “Uncanny Valley” action going on here, but none of the children in the audience seem too perturbed. [via]
- I was glad to hear that author Peter Watts will not be serving jail time for an incident that happened at the US/Canadian border back in December. But I’m still ashamed that this is the way we (sometimes) treat our visitors in this country. [via]
- Of course, we are the nation that gave the world Justin Bieber, who doesn’t even know what the word ‘German’ means.
- Then again, we did give the world Ricky Jay via]: