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jazzfishJeez, it's been awhile since I did a linkdump. These range from 'hilarious' to 'thought-provoking.' The best of them are both, of course.
Jim Hines, again with the awesome: Striking a Pose (Women and Fantasy Covers): "I expected posing like Danielle to feel a little weird and unnatural. I did not expect immediate, physical pain from trying (rather unsuccessfully) to do the hip thing she’s got going on." Photos included. ETA from![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
vvalkyri in comments, more relevant (and, sadly, often hilarious) links.
HTTP Status Cats. I'm particularly fond of 431 - Request Header Fields Too Large and 429 - Too Many Requests. (And for those on the other team, yes, there are HTTP Status Dogs too.)
Why Arabic is Terrific: "Arabic also treats the glottal stop (a soundless catch in the throat) as a regular consonant. Glottal stops are everywhere in English but we are not trained to hear them, so a long portion of one of your first Arabic classes will be devoted to blowing your mind with the fact that English words like 'apple' and 'elegant' do not start with a vowel."
FOUND: Identity of the female firefighters at Pearl Harbor. Neat.
xiphias tells us about Joe Greenstein: "Yes, there's a superhero connection here -- the original, Golden-Age version of "The Atom" is based on Joe Greenstein. But it gets better." And it does.
The Tough Guide to Fantasy Cities: "GOGGLES: They do nothing. However, they look cool. In a STEAM-DRIVEN CITY, you will find these indispensable if you wish to look like a native."
Texts from Cephalopods: "It is a well-established fact in marine biology that the octopus is the drunk texter of the cephalopod family."
The Curse of Cow Clicker and The Life-Changing $20 Rightward-Facing Cow: two fantastic articles on a horrible Facebook game. '"I didn’t set out to make it fun," Bogost says. "Players were supposed to recognize that clicking a cow is a ridiculous thing to want to do."'
Ten Things Everyone Should Know About Time: actually eleven, since the lede is "Time is the most used noun in the English language."
A Christmas Message From America's Rich: "Nobody hates them for being successful. And not that this needs repeating, but nobody even minds that they are rich. What makes people furious is that they have stopped being citizens. Most of us 99-percenters couldn’t even let our dogs leave a dump on the sidewalk without feeling ashamed before our neighbors. It's called having a conscience: even though there are plenty of things most of us could get away with doing, we just don’t do them, because, well, we live here. Most of us wouldn’t take a million dollars to swindle the local school system, or put our next door neighbors out on the street with a robosigned foreclosure, or steal the life’s savings of some old pensioner down the block by selling him a bunch of worthless securities."
Jim Hines, again with the awesome: Striking a Pose (Women and Fantasy Covers): "I expected posing like Danielle to feel a little weird and unnatural. I did not expect immediate, physical pain from trying (rather unsuccessfully) to do the hip thing she’s got going on." Photos included. ETA from
vvalkyri in comments, more relevant (and, sadly, often hilarious) links.HTTP Status Cats. I'm particularly fond of 431 - Request Header Fields Too Large and 429 - Too Many Requests. (And for those on the other team, yes, there are HTTP Status Dogs too.)
Why Arabic is Terrific: "Arabic also treats the glottal stop (a soundless catch in the throat) as a regular consonant. Glottal stops are everywhere in English but we are not trained to hear them, so a long portion of one of your first Arabic classes will be devoted to blowing your mind with the fact that English words like 'apple' and 'elegant' do not start with a vowel."
FOUND: Identity of the female firefighters at Pearl Harbor. Neat.
xiphias tells us about Joe Greenstein: "Yes, there's a superhero connection here -- the original, Golden-Age version of "The Atom" is based on Joe Greenstein. But it gets better." And it does.The Tough Guide to Fantasy Cities: "GOGGLES: They do nothing. However, they look cool. In a STEAM-DRIVEN CITY, you will find these indispensable if you wish to look like a native."
Texts from Cephalopods: "It is a well-established fact in marine biology that the octopus is the drunk texter of the cephalopod family."
The Curse of Cow Clicker and The Life-Changing $20 Rightward-Facing Cow: two fantastic articles on a horrible Facebook game. '"I didn’t set out to make it fun," Bogost says. "Players were supposed to recognize that clicking a cow is a ridiculous thing to want to do."'
Ten Things Everyone Should Know About Time: actually eleven, since the lede is "Time is the most used noun in the English language."
A Christmas Message From America's Rich: "Nobody hates them for being successful. And not that this needs repeating, but nobody even minds that they are rich. What makes people furious is that they have stopped being citizens. Most of us 99-percenters couldn’t even let our dogs leave a dump on the sidewalk without feeling ashamed before our neighbors. It's called having a conscience: even though there are plenty of things most of us could get away with doing, we just don’t do them, because, well, we live here. Most of us wouldn’t take a million dollars to swindle the local school system, or put our next door neighbors out on the street with a robosigned foreclosure, or steal the life’s savings of some old pensioner down the block by selling him a bunch of worthless securities."