Items: miscellaneous
I know long lists of unrelated links are kind of a pain, but I'm desperately trying to close some browser windows before my computer gets too slow to use.
- First-person Tetris nearly gave me a headache. Neat idea, but not something I would want to play more than once.
- WWII-style cyberwar propaganda posters.
- Wacky costume designs from a 1969 UC Santa Cruz production of Julius Caesar—designed by Jack Kirby. For example: a sort of Calpurnia meets Big Barda kind of thing.
- US interstates in the style of London Underground diagram.
- The Internet Is Made of Cats (video) (NSFW).
- Baby koala! KAWAIII!
- Funny and brief Ursula K. Le Guin piece: "On Serious Literature," riffing on a line about Chabon "trying to drag the decaying corpse of genre fiction out of [its] shallow grave."
- Why do professors tend to be liberal? Partly due to typecasting, say two sociologists. (Also interesting bits about gender-typing of professions.)
- Space shuttles on sale: only $28.8M apiece, down from $42M. And they'll now throw in the main engines (formerly $400k-$800k) for free!
- Collection of 1400-plus spaceship parts and other related items at the National Air and Space Museum.
- Chuck Klosterman reviews that little-known 1960s band The Beatles.