<p><i>November 22</i>
<p>At this point I hardly need to inform anyone about Cracked.com -- after all, it's been America's only humor site since 1958. (FiveMinute.net actually goes back to 19<i>3</i>8, but we're from Canada.) It's a comedy extravaganza with neat history and science facts thrown in for good measure, and it's the most dangerous timesuck on the net, up to and including TV Tropes. What's more, there's often pretty good stuff in the comments, as today's link will demonstrate. <p>On Wednesday, Cracked posted <a href="http://www.cracked.com/article_20185_8-cheap-ways-to-fake-being-pro-chef.html">8 Cheap Ways to Fake Being a Pro Chef</a>. This was the debut article of Tim Ferriss, a name you may have heard (or may not); he's a motivational efficiency-coach type, and this article was a glorified ad for his new book, <i>The 4-Hour Chef</i>. It's disappointing to see Cracked do this, but understandable -- this sort of thing must be worth more in sponsorship money then simple ad banners. Regardless, Ferriss has been eaten alive in the comments, and there's one in particular I want to call your attention to. Click the Votes link and scroll down to the comment by "bradyyy" (fourth highest-ranked as I write this). He didn't just take Ferriss down a peg, he <i>wrote a better article</i> and posted it for free. I love the internet. |
<p><i>November 23</i>
<p>Today's link post got long! It got so long that it became an LJ post instead. <a href="http://bit.ly/super-uninteresting">Go read it.</a> |
<p><i>November 24</i>
<p>Today's link post didn't get long. It's just a link to one of my favourite programming jokes (or rather, infinite families of programming jokes), "now they have two problems". <a href="http://nedbatchelder.com/blog/201204/two_problems.html">This blog post</a> will introduce you. For more, consult <a href="http://sodiumdreams.com/post/19639754254/more-problems">here</a> and <a href="http://twoproblems.com/">here</a>. The latter is a user-submitted site, so some of them suck, but there are some <a href="http://twoproblems.com/12">good ones not found elsewhere</a>. Put "1" in the URL and keep clicking Next to read them all. <p>(Me, I've got five problems, but a minute ain't one.) |
<p><i>November 25</i>
<p>Quick one today: <a href="http://www.theglobaledition.com/">The Global Edition</a>. Basically, if you like The Onion, here's more of it. Global Edition is remarkably similar in both its good and bad qualities. It does, however, lack two of The Onion's recent annoyances: video articles and the nag screen that pops up if you forget to click Stop in time. |
<p><i>November 26</i>
<p>One more link day! Tomorrow there's stuff. Anyway, here's an interesting resource for writers that I stumbled on recently: <a href="http://www.writinginjuries.com/">Writing Injuries</a>. As the name suggests, it's a list of various wounds, lacerations, traumas, contusions, freezings, burnings, shootings, and otherwise tormentings, and how they actually affect people. By consulting this site, you can avoid embarrassing mistakes like having a high-school cheerleader get impaled on a rebar and basically walk it off, while a grown man in another of your stories dies instantly from impalement. Or having a strong guy "save" someone who's falling from the upper atmosphere by leaping up and catching him. Or having the villain get a single bruise from having a <i>car</i> thrown at his head offscreen. Or -- look, I just think Joss Whedon could benefit from this site, okay? |
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Grr, argh. |
Pretty sure the second one is The Avengers, if we're going on stuff Joss Whedon wrote. I don't recognize the third either, though.
=SPOILERS= Albeit I don't think that site would account for the possibility of the person being caught being in superpowered armor. It probably makes some kind of difference, although it might just be 'different way of dying horribly.' But, I'd give him a pass on that anyway since superhero movie. |
Meant to answer this earlier, but I thought someone else might take a shot. There are actually four references, which I'll now spell out in needless detail.
I didn't use Angel, but if I had, I'd probably have chosen "Apocalypse, Nowish", where Angel recovers within minutes from being stabbed in the neck and thrown off a building. (He needs to be in shape for witnessing something dramatic elsewhere.) Vampires have a healing factor, but it's not usually Claire-level. |
December 25
Merry Christmas! Remember that seasonal banner we used to have? I took two seconds and whipped up <a href="http://www.fiveminute.net">a new one</a>. (You can actually count the seconds just looking at it.) Now back to family stuff.
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Hah! Nice.
NX the red-bowed starship... |
Hey Z, it's past Epiphany. Time to take down the Christmas decorations.
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