Links!
Wide ranging and interesting.From MSNBC, a story about the discovery of a Mayan mural dating back to roughly 100 B.C. (the oldest ever discovered). Includes an amazing picture. Here's the link:
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/10452176/.
Here's a funky little link to a place called "happy palace." It's basically just sets of photos submitted by users, and it's somehow very compelling.
[Correction: these pictures aren't submitted by users, but are found by the site author (referred to only as "f"), which makes it even more amazing.]
http://happypalace.blogspot.com/.
Dubious Quality Film Advisor Ben Ormand sends a link to a Giant in the Playground comic. It's from 2003, but it's still funny, particularly if you've ever played D&D:
http://www.giantitp.com/cgi-bin/GiantITP/ootscript?SK=1.
From Jeremy Fischer, a link to an excellent essay titled written by MIT Professor Henry Jenkins. Titled "Reality Bytes: Eight Myths About Video Games Debunked," it intelligently answers some of the hysterical claims of video game "opponents."
http://www.pbs.org/kcts/videogamerevolution/impact/myths.html.
It's all reminding me more and more of the hysteria over "crime" comic books in the 1940's and 1950's. And here's a link for that, if you're interested:
http://www.crimeboss.com/history02-1.html.
Good friend Andy Stingel sends in a link to the Australian National Public Toilet Map, which is a project of the National Continence Management Strategy. My favorite feature? The ability to create "My Toilet Map." No, I'm not kidding. Here's the link:
http://www.toiletmap.gov.au/default.aspx.
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