Links of Interest 2/19

Really want to know where to start with JG Ballard (author of Crash)? It happens to all of us.

Looking to shorten your lengthy URLs AND give them a slightly suspicious and scary vibe? You've come to the right place.

Photos from Battleship Island.

A look back at Roger Ebert's 1970 Esquire interview with Lee Marvin for Esquire - or as I like to call him, the most awesomest man to ever live.

Don't think death and time sympathizes someone? See how we as a society are making Hitler a punchline!

Just because a movie is good doesn't mean it's going to make a lot of money.

A deeper look into the sport of curling.

HBO has turned the Ricky Gervais podcasts into animated shows.

What did Back to the Future get right in their predictions of the future? Let's take a look back...to...the...future...or just go to this link.

I take no responsibility for anything that happens if you try any of these.

Links of Interest 2/18

Books that really no longer deserve movie adaptations.

Tracy Morgan has some interesting views on stuff.

So where exactly does the U.S. store its nuclear waste?

Images of Pluto. Some of the best ever. Which means they look like my attempts at making marbles with the original Photoshop.

The trailer for the A-Team movie. I assume there will be deaths in this movie. I'm assuming this movie will be bad. I don't have much else to say.

Garbage Island is sitting out there in the Pacific. How far away are we before someone claims ownership and begins to sell it as prime real estate?

Making perfect french fries means double frying. But I could have told you that without any of the science. Have you tried a double fried french fry? Case closed.

Don't think noise pollution is that big of a deal? You will when you run out of quiet places.

I love how each driver pauses, feeling the other out, trying to figure which one is going to do what. In the end? Never a problem!

This article is stupid. If you can't come up with an awesome band name, then really, you probably aren't going to make it big.

Links of Interest 2/17

A pop culture map of time travel references. It's dizzying, if you can believe it.

It's hard to be a movie fan without counting Roger Ebert as an influence. This is a sad, yet inspiring article about the life he now leads after cancer ravaged his mouth, leaving him literally speechless. And yet he communicates now perhaps better than ever.

A visual of just how deep the Mariana Trench is.

Person in a deer costume, wooden acting, horrendous dialog...there isn't much more you need to make an awesome commercial.

Full disclosure: I hated Inglourious Basterds. I thought the plot was tepid, many of the characters had no reason for their behavior (seriously - the main guy simply pulls a 180 after the first 2/3 of the movie has been spent building him up as a total badass) and the theater - don't get me started: both plans to blow it up had nothing to do with one another. I guess that was a coincidence?

I really hate the fact that it's up for best picture.

Anyway, here's an article with Tarantino listing the movies that inspired him to make it.

Taking a look at where the honey bees went. Here's hoping the trees had nothing to do with it.

That Steve Jobs is one sneaky bastard.

Hair items!

I'm fascinated by all things El Bulli.

Links of Interest 2/16

Malcolm Gladwell tackles the subject of why we enjoy drinking with other people.

This is exactly like Deal of the Century, if Deal of the Century was really serious, and not hilarious.

Being an lover of many things frisbee, (Ultimate, Disc Golf) this feature of how the frisbee can to be is interesting to me.

Stay ahead of the toy trends for 2010.

As a rule, figure skating costumes are garish. Here's a look of some of the most garish.

So...have you seen the new We Are the World video? It's...interesting.

Have you been hearing the buzz about Google Buzz? Want to know how to use it, but have no clue? Here you go.

Snow storms might be a nuisance, but you have to admit they make for a great backdrop for filming.

There's more to Woody Allen than films and controversy. A lot more.

Going to a nice restaurant in the near future? Read this and enhance your service.

Links of Interest 2/11

Apologies for lack of posts the past few days. I live on the east coast, or as I have now dubbed it Snowy Snow Snow Land. I have intermittently lost power and cable the past few days. And I was drunk/hungover for one of those days too.

A review of the first season of A Small Wonder.

There are 24 editions of Air Jordans!

Been wondering what Gilbert Gottfried has been up to recently?

Have a one dollar bill on you? Take a closer look at it.

Get ready for the Olympics (opening ceremonies are tonight!) by checking out some of the venues the competitions will be held in.

Sure, sometimes plastic surgery is nice. But sometimes it can go horribly wrong.

The best scenes in football movies.

China might not be a threat to go to conventional war with; but in cyberspace, all bets are off.

Better living through chemistry really can be considered a myth.

Customs agents never know what they're going to find.