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[jinian]

This piece from Salon is a little old (it's been sitting in my notes file for at least a week) but it's very cool. I don't think telepresent reporting is going to work well right away, but the future is creeping closer.

Sometimes mean people are funny. http://www.changingtheclimate.com has happy bumper stickers to give to owners of big pointless SUVs.

Last week, I stole this article from le_merle. It's about the big Seattle earthquake I've been hearing about since I was a child, and for the first time I was actually worried. Generally I'm pretty blase about quakes, but there is a big scary quake out there that's like nothing I've ever felt, and we don't know how to prepare for it. Eep.

I want more tabletop fusion stories! Hey, this one might even be true. I guess we'll find out. At least it seems a bit more likely than the tepid water one.

Enjoy the scary fetish gear at http://www.ratemygasmask.com/ (not work-safe).

Engrish.com gives me the laughter! snout, go here and scroll all the way to the bottom. It made me think of you, as did Don Don the elephant.

Dude! You can help NASA identify craters on Mars! Distributed Proofreaders is more in my usual line, but I hardly ever get to do crater identification at work.

I found a lot of gallery-style links today.

Those looking for more LJ userpics can go to Monster Cards of the 1950's and 1960's. Most horrifying of all: Star Trek trading cards from 1967.

In a similar vein, Attack of the 50-Foot Web Site has lovely old horror movie posters. Oh no! It's the Amazing Colossal Man! And he's in Italian! Run!

I love the web. It means that I don't have to go to the Puyallup Fair to see people's freaky collections of Chinese propaganda posters (unless I want to, of course). This one is my favorite.

Comments

[wiredferret.livejournal.com]

Hey, who would want to avoid the Puyallup? It's got to have the most sexual advertising of any fair in existence. And good scones.

[marzipan-pig.livejournal.com]

thank you so much for saying that

when I first moved here I had no idea what was going on with those nice healthy glistening farm animals provocatively suggesting I DO THE PUYALLUP?!?!?!!

what was it? did I want to do it? and the pig, the pig looked so luscious. and the soft soft sheep. oh.

I was too embarassed to ask anyone what it was all about for literally YEARS, duh.

[jinian.livejournal.com]

Not being obligated to go all that way is a good thing. But yes, I still like it.