Banana!

Evening Thoughts

Yay, the Pittsburgh team lost and is out of the playoffs.

*ahem*

I'm almost done rewatching all of Campion. I also have managed to get through quite a few comics recently.

Other than that, not much to report. So I think I'll curl up and finish Campion and tease the cat tonight.

100 years ago...

The BBC covers the events of 100 years ago in a "live" format, complete with video correspondents explaining the situation.

28 June 1914: Archduke Ferdinand and wife assassinated

Linkity-link!

As a reporter, I sometimes need to be out where it's slightly dangerous. A neat safety vest is something I ought to get sometime. I just would want to put my company's logo on it.

The Cliff Mass Weather Blog reports on strange cloud lines. SCIENCE!

I wanna make some notebooks.

The BBC has posted some totally wonderful pictures of a 13-year-old girl using a golden eagle to hunt in Mongolia.

How the Muppets created Generation X. I still firmly believe that a person who has never worked with the Muppets is not a real star. Any so-called TV, movie or music stars that came along since the Muppet Show first aired but haven't worked with the Muppets? Not stars. They are all wannabes. Please note: working with the Muppets does not automatically make you a real star, but you cannot be a real star unless you have worked with the Muppets.

And now an unpleasant topic... women are being harassed for being comic book fans with opinions again. This is, sadly, nothing new. Fanboys of all types of things: comics, sports, science... whatever it is... often feel threatened when women start to intrude on the boys' clubs with a different perspective and new attitudes. While I tend to believe that the boys who are actually actively hostile are a vast minority, they tend to be vocal and nasty. A bigger problem is that many men have utterly no clue that the abuse is happening, even when they witness it. The result is that the stupid boys feel justified, or at least comfortable, in continuing to be aggressively horrible. Andy Khouri talks about the latest demonstration of idiocy, as does Brett White.

Look, I don't know the solution, if there is one, but I sure hope that the men out there will pay enough attention to recognize when the boys are acting up and call them on it.

Linkdump

The National Film Board of Canada has put their archive online, including one of my all time favorites:

Artist Paul Guinan is featured in the Portland Tribune.

OldVersion, for when the new version of the software simply doesn't work.

Broadcasters are trying to stop people from recording programs... but programs have been saved by people who kept "illegal" recordings.

Doctor Who animation. Way cool, and I want to see a lot more. The clip is a YouTube video of a trailer that this group has animated.

Found in the Book Drop

Another reason I don't like air travel anymore. First the ridiculous security theater, then things like being forced to remain on a plane without food for hours. I hate travelling, but I'd rather drive than pay to be treated like a prisoner.

Along the long road of LOLCats, is the walrus who lost his bucket. And now a new twist on the bucket saga.

Happy birthday, Spaghetti Harvest!

Today is the fiftieth anniversary of one of the greatest April Fool's pranks of all time: The BBC's report on the Swiss spaghetti harvest. Back in 1957, of course, spaghetti was still thought of as an exotic foreign food, and most Brits didn't know much about it, like how it was made. And I suspect our collective baloney detectors are a lot more finely honed in this day and age than they were then. So this little gem fooled a lot more people than it would today. So, in honor of today's important anniversary, here's the video (and I'm sorry about the poor quality, but that's the best I could find on any copy):