October 19 2009
Knob Haircut and Other Choice Links
posted by Ana Samways at 8:13 am
Duckface: Stop making that stupid pouty face in your profile pictures.
WTF? German arm-wrestler’s Popeye right arm.
Apathy about Graphs? Here’s the T-shirt for you.
Any Media Buyers out there want a little revenge? A game for harassed media buyers who get the chance to gun down sales reps when they pop up with questions like, “What kind of CPM are you looking for?” and “What click rate do you think is good?”
Modern day book burning! Raunchy Penguin classics not for the family post shop.
Picture this: Amazing photos from World Animal Day.
Edible Geometry: Over 150 pasta shapes.
Awful Library books has a couple of amusing retro books about birth. This one and this one.
News: According to Publishers Weekly, Michael Jackson was working on a comic book for years with friend (and son of Deepak) Gotham Chopra…
“Now Random House’s Villard imprint is prepping to release the fruits of this seemingly unlikely collaboration. The book, Fated, is about a Jackson-esque pop icon named Gabriel Star whose fame has left him isolated and emotionally cut-off. After a suicidal swan dive from his hotel one night, Star survives only to see his celebrity grow and discover that he’s becoming, per the publisher, “something not quite human.”
Video: Carol Brown took a bus out of town, Mona was in a coma…from Episode 5, Season 2 Flight of the Conchords in the US.
October 19th, 2009 at 2:10 pm
So it’s called the “duckface” then? Till now I’d always called it “the Bebo Look” or “the MySpace Face”; people always knew what I was referring to.
Whatever that cretinous expression is called, I utterly bloody hate it.
October 19th, 2009 at 2:30 pm
Technicall they are not 150 different pasta shapes, but varieties. Some had the same shape but different colours etc. This pedant is off to eat his taglierini al nero
di seppia – because he’s not a fan of tagliolini a nido
October 20th, 2009 at 6:41 am
I love the duckface link…what about the most famous duckface of all!!
October 20th, 2009 at 10:42 am
Nice retro chairs in the waiting room (birth books item)…
October 20th, 2009 at 1:49 pm
Lolita is one of the most memorable books I have read. Going beyond its provocative main theme – it is written in absolutely beautiful prose and is the darkest of pitch black comedies.