i'm not dumping links so much as recycling them

[rone]

divisadero embedded a preview to possibly the greatest videogame-based movie of all time.

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Remember Liquid Television?  sanspoof linked to something that reminds me heavily of the best parts from that show.  As far as LTV goes, one short that always stuck with me was "The Running Man" (part 1/part 2); the haunting music in the final minute remained imperfectly in my memory, so that when i first heard Michael Hedges's "Spare Change", i thought it was the music they used in the cartoon (it isn't).  Although there isn't a performance of "Spare Change" on YouTube, there is a huge amount of Michael Hedges content there, and, well, thank god for YouTube, because now i've seen Michael Hedges play.  Unless you know tronpublic, you've probably never seen anyone play guitar the way Hedges plays "Silent Anticipations".

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Theo Jansen is a kinetic sculptor.  He does amazing stuff.

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Via warrenelliscom, a levitating, powered lightbulb.  Thank you, Nikola Tesla, wherever you are.

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"It took my 8-year-old son just a few seconds to shake loose some hidden history from within the official transcript of the [Coalition Provisional Authority]."  Thank you, Microsoft Word.

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"Just think about your options.  You know Coach isn't going to give you back your scholarship just like that.  If she finds out [that you're pregnant] and if you decide to keep it, that's gone."

Comments

[pennyhill.livejournal.com]

. . . the athlete said the fear of losing her scholarship played a large role in her decision to have a second abortion."

I would have thought fear of losing her scholarship would play a large role in her decision TO USE BIRTH CONTROL.

[ronebofh.livejournal.com]

Yeah, it's hard to be sympathetic when that second unwanted pregnancy rolls around. But it's all a sad tale, of poor decisions made by young women aggravated by a total lack of sympathy from the adults that are supposed to be guiding them.

[tau-iota-mu-c.livejournal.com]

I was thinking more along the lines, like, that "like" should be forcefully removed from her vocaubulary, like.