Friday 21 September 2018
no hypnosis like a mass hypnosis because a mass hypnosis isn’t happening
catagories: ๐ถ, ๐, ๐ฆ, myth and monsters
offred
More tone-deaf than the spec-script for an all female version of Lord of the Flies, this predictably sexist Sexy Handmaiden Brave Red Maiden Costume really does project the message “I am aware of popular culture, but I don’t understand it” (as one commented) or worse doesn’t care. I’m a bit nauseated and I think it’s in awfully bad taste. What do you think? I recall reading that a cosmetic company pulled its witchcraft starter kits after backlash from the Wiccan community. Maybe together we rally for more refinement from businesses that peddle crudeness.
catagories: ๐, ๐บ, holidays and observances
8x8
deuterocanonical: ranking depictions of Judith beheading Holofernes, via Things Magazine
miami vice: a look inside the Mutiny Hotel where Scarface was filmed
stylite: an investigation into the doctored photograph of an ancient ruin reveals an ascetic tradition
knight industries two thousand: a banjo version of the Knight Rider theme
second skin: special membrane that transforms inanimate objects into multifunctional robots
plosive fricative: in English, counting from zero upwards, one’s lips won’t touch before one million, via Kottke’s Quick Links
biggs is right, i’m never getting out of here: animator Dmitry Grozov creates a brilliant anime trailer for Star Wars: A New Hope
pigpen: researchers isolate the chemical, microbial shadow that accompanies all of us
Thursday 20 September 2018
game of optional goals
Had I not learned otherwise, I would have thought that this alternative reality version, meritocratic of the board game Monopoly was some sort of commission from some No Such Agency to communicate with its field agents but Careers from Parker Brothers was introduced in 1955. In addition to the outer track, there are several internal loops, career paths to try and many more regular opportunities to draw cards of chance and a rather involved scoring system (recorded on a Magic Slate Paper Saver pad) to monitor progress and achieve a sort of work-life balance with a Success Formula of money, fame and happiness. Designed by sociologist, ethnographer and author James Cooke Brown (*1921 - †2000), players could aspire to be an astronaut, farmer or a uranium prospector among other things and landing on the same square as another knocked the first player to “the park bench”—intimating that they were out of work and fallen on hard times. Later versions of the game were adapted to better reflect the cultural milieu.