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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

[torquemada.livejournal.com]

You know, I really shouldn't be surprised, but it's disturbing that there's a gas mask fetish.

[marzipan-pig.livejournal.com]

didn't you see, oh man, that movie, the one about James WHale, GODS AND MONSTERS? I mean, I guess it was more complex than that but still.

[torquemada.livejournal.com]

No, I didn't, and I think I regret that a little less now. Eeeeeeeeeeee.

[marzipan-pig.livejournal.com]

well, it's not really a fetish and it's an extremely small element of the plot.

more just like, a scene that is pyshcologically distressing, though not
really in the way I'm probably making it sound.

[torquemada.livejournal.com]

Well... I won't not see the movie, but if I'm traumatised by the scene and I meet you and start crying, you'll know why.

[jinian.livejournal.com]

Don't people use them for erotic asphyxiation? I can't remember where I read that...

(Sticking with the cute icon for extra disturbing action!)

[torquemada.livejournal.com]

Now that you put it that way, it makes a lot more sense. Well, I dunno if 'sense' is the word, but you know. Of course, anime/twelve year old Japanese girl gas mask fetish would be downright traumatising. Wai!