Linkspam for 29-4-2008

[matgb]

• Looking for the Mouse: Gin, Television, and Social Surplus
  On how the TV used to be the timesink that the internet is now replacing, and how cutting TV watching back a small amount creates thousands of wikipedias.
  (tags: internet media productivity culture)
• From The Magazine : Radar Online : What better mentor for a 10-year-old than Charles Manson? Little Billy seeks life advice, and America's most notorious killers are happy to oblige
  As Jennie put it: 'Charles Manson is completely batshit, but Larry Flynt is kind of cool. In other news, the pope shits in the woods and all bears are Catholic.'
  (tags: funny life letters)
• Solar System Live
  This is a fairly cool trick, type in any date and it'll show you where the planets were in the solar system. Not actually of any use, but still cool.
  (tags: planets space astronomy)
• 6 Formerly Kickass Creatures Ruined by Evolution | Cracked.com
  I'm guessing some of the science in this is a bit off, and I'm guessing many people have already picked it full of holes, but I can't be arsed to look, it's still cool...
  (tags: Evolution Humour)

Comments

[misscoollinda.livejournal.com]

I read those letters to 10 yr old Billy. WOW! The Manson responses...why do they humor him with parole hearings? I guess that's his right, but the reality is that it's just never going to happen. Maybe he knows that too and he just enjoys the media attention. I did like Larry Flynt's response. He IS cool. I was somewhat disappointed with the automat responses from the government, as if they didn't even read Billy's initial letter - Schwarzenegger ! I'm talking to you! At least Clarence Thomas commented on McDonalds!

[rho]

For the last one, a lot of the science is a bit dodgy, yeah. And parts of it go way beyond a bit dodgy into the territory of "completely, utterly and in every way wrong". Still cool, though.