AFI has a big gallery of new G.I Joe toys.
Saturday, June 30, 2012
Link roundup
1. "Count Robert de La Rochefoucauld, who has died aged 88, escaped from Occupied France to join the Special Operations Executive (SOE); parachuted back on sabotage missions, he twice faced execution, only to escape on both occasions, once dressed as a Nazi guard."
2. Westfield is going to spend $500 million upgrading the Century City Mall in Los Angeles. By comparison. Disney's new Hawaiian resort cost $800 million.
3. Also from Fast Company, here are some of the tricks being used in London to avoid building a bunch of facilities that will never be used after the Olympics. For example:
2. Westfield is going to spend $500 million upgrading the Century City Mall in Los Angeles. By comparison. Disney's new Hawaiian resort cost $800 million.
3. Also from Fast Company, here are some of the tricks being used in London to avoid building a bunch of facilities that will never be used after the Olympics. For example:
The International Olympic Committee is a picky tenant: It demands housing for 15,000 athletes and officials but doesn't want athletes to cook. The solution was to build 3,000 apartments, each with an empty kitchen space that can be used as a bedroom. After the Games, kitchens will be added and 30% of the units will be sold at below-market prices.
Link roundup
1. "Tecate Decides That Pro-Public Urination Billboard Was Maybe Not A Good Idea."
2. "Russia’s Strategic Missile Forces are equipped with a special ‘safe-busting’ sledgehammer that can be used in an emergency to break open the safe containing launch codes if it fails to open." Via.
3. "No one looks stupid when they're having fun." Via.
2. "Russia’s Strategic Missile Forces are equipped with a special ‘safe-busting’ sledgehammer that can be used in an emergency to break open the safe containing launch codes if it fails to open." Via.
3. "No one looks stupid when they're having fun." Via.
Friday, June 29, 2012
Link roundup
1. "Sidney Crosby is a superstitious creature . . . . He was born on 8/7/87, wears no. 87, and negotiated a contract in 2008 that averaged out to an $8.7 million cap hit — a number that he hit once again with this new extension."
2. Redskins tight end Fred Davis is being sued for allegedly assaulting a woman he accuses of being a madam. He's representing himself and so is she. Davis had a lawyer earlier in the proceedings, who was allegedly his girlfriend. The transcripts are available to read.
3. "All three of Tom Cruise's marriages ended when wife was 33."
2. Redskins tight end Fred Davis is being sued for allegedly assaulting a woman he accuses of being a madam. He's representing himself and so is she. Davis had a lawyer earlier in the proceedings, who was allegedly his girlfriend. The transcripts are available to read.
3. "All three of Tom Cruise's marriages ended when wife was 33."
Link roundup
1. Here's Jess Nevins's annotations to the excellent League of Extraordinary Gentlemen Century 2009 (Alan Moore's the best writer in comics, and it's not even close). Sample (SPOILER SPOILER):
3. Nightmare fuel.
4. Diamonds don't come from coal.
Norton, Mina and Orlando are walking into Platform 13, from Eva Ibbotson’s The Secret of Platform 13. In the novel Platform 13 in King’s Cross Station leads to another world.And from Rich Johnston's observations:
And, yes, the similarities between Ibbotson and J.K. Rowling’s Platform 9 3/4 has been noted before, though no one seriously believes that Rowling plagiarized or stole from Ibbotson. In Ibbotson’s words, “I think we all borrow from each other as writers.”
There’s a certain character that made all the headlines the other week when the comic went on sale in England. And while I am in awe at the tricks Moore and O’Neill use to avoid any trademark or copyright issues concerning him, there is a name they use, found, scorched, in the grounds of a magical school. But rather than having the initials HP on his folder, instead there is the name “Will Stanton.”2. Gawker writer tries out new matchmaking site, gets fixed up with a Gawker writer who works a few computers over.
Will was the lead in the second The Dark Is Rising novel from 1973, the seventh son of a seventh son who discovers his wizarding heritage on his eleventh birthday, and must collect six “signs” to help fight The Dark. Yes, comparisons have been made. What this means, despite all the newspaper headlines, it may be a very different children’s wizarding character who is actually portrayed on the page…
3. Nightmare fuel.
4. Diamonds don't come from coal.
Thursday, June 28, 2012
Diablo 3 is a pinata
Penny Arcade on buying weapons in Diablo 3 instead of finding them in game:
the game is, functionally speaking, a pinata. Right? Obviously, you could just go buy candy at the store. It’s not about having candy. It’s about getting candy.
Wednesday, June 27, 2012
Anti-Cheating Ring
Anti-Cheating Ring:
we have created this wedding ring for people intent on cheating. The negative engraving on the inside means that when you are in the ‘Club’ and an attractive woman…or man comes along to chat, slipping your wedding ring off is not an option. The mark left on your skin says…’I’m Married’
Tuesday, June 26, 2012
Monday, June 25, 2012
Sewing art show at Bear and Bird
A few gems from the upcoming sewing show at Bear and Bird:
Simpli Jessi.
Allison Hoffman.
Kjersti Faret.
Simpli Jessi.
Allison Hoffman.
Kjersti Faret.
Sunday, June 24, 2012
"The Army is ditching a $5 billion failed camouflage redesign"
"it actually made soldiers easier for the enemy to spot."
Saturday, June 23, 2012
The book Eddie Campbell's seven-year-old daughter made while he was illustrating From Hell
While Eddie Campbell worked on illustrating Alan Moore's Jack the Ripper comic From Hell, his seven-year-old daughter worked alongside on her own book:
The Ripper File: this 'book' consists of 35 A4 size loose pages (regular typing paper to you Americans) on which wee Hayley Campbell, age 7, catalogued, with one or two digressions along the road, all the ways of dying.
Friday, June 22, 2012
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