{"id":10936,"date":"2010-08-24T01:36:54","date_gmt":"2010-08-24T08:36:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.amptoons.com\/blog\/?p=10936"},"modified":"2010-08-24T01:36:54","modified_gmt":"2010-08-24T08:36:54","slug":"open-thread-thread-thread-thread-thread-edition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/?p=10936","title":{"rendered":"Open Thread Thread Thread Thread Thread Edition"},"content":{"rendered":"

This is an open thread, open for whatever sort of posting your blessed little hearts desire. Is self-linking allowed, you inquire? My darling, not just allowed, adored<\/em>, I reply.<\/p>\n

I’ve watched this video by Everynone<\/a>, “Words,” several times over:<\/p>\n

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More links (a lot of light links this week, for some reason):<\/p>\n

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  1. A cartoony flow chart<\/a> explaining the process of legally immigrating to the USA. Note the path if you’re an unskilled immigrant without relatives here.<\/li>\n
  2. Predatory Lending and Health Services<\/a>. More exploitation by the folks bringing us weight loss surgery.<\/li>\n
  3. Being bigoted doesn’t require<\/a> being overtly hateful or expressly wishing people harm.<\/li>\n
  4. Jane Austen\u2019s Fight Club<\/a><\/li>\n
  5. It’s not a mosque near the WTC that the right (and, to be fair, some cowardly asshole Democrats) object to. It’s mosques being built in the USA, period<\/a>.<\/li>\n
  6. There are some amazingly great comics at What Things Do<\/a>.<\/li>\n
  7. “One of those dreaded ‘swallow shit or ruin the evening’ moments.”<\/a><\/li>\n
  8. Justin Bieber\u2019s \u2018U Smile\u2019 Slowed Down 800 Percent Becomes Haunting New Song\/a><\/a><\/li>\n
  9. Are We Looking At A Genderless Future?<\/a>, Newsweek asks. My answer: No, we’re not. But if we’re lucky, maybe we’ll look at a future with a lot more variety and freedom of genders. (Via<\/a>.)<\/li>\n
  10. Why helium balloons should cost $100 each<\/a>.<\/li>\n
  11. “But to me<\/a> the most disappointing aspect of the way Wonder Woman is currently being presented is not the diminishment of her powers but of her iconic stature.” I agree. (Fortunately, they’ll probably revert to the iconic WW within five years.)<\/li>\n
  12. Rachelmanija has some thoughts on Heinlein<\/a>. She argues that feminists get so pissed at Heinlein in part because of the bait-and-switch his books perform.<\/li>\n
  13. All the Sad Young Literary Women.<\/a> The comments contain a lot of recommendations for female-authored fantasy and science fiction.<\/li>\n
  14. Gavin Berliner, the man behind floating head movie posters<\/a><\/li>\n
  15. It’s kids downloading manga that’s causing the economic problems of manga publishing<\/a>. Not, you know, the economic collapse. Those darn kids! (Meanwhile, I owned an overflowing boxful of cassette tapes with illegally copies music when I was a teen, and I bet most of the people complaining about the downloaders did something similar when they were kids.)<\/li>\n
  16. 45 Beautifully Designed Book Covers<\/a>. My favorite is the cover for The Annotated Nose<\/em>.<\/li>\n
  17. “Think of the U.S. embassy in Iraq as a kind of well-armed anchor baby.”<\/a><\/li>\n
  18. How to be civil, in cake form<\/a>.<\/li>\n
  19. Private prisons cost more than public prisons. <\/a>They just appear to cost less because prison companies bid low in order to get contracts.<\/li>\n
  20. Neptune recently finished the end of its first orbit since its discovery in 1846!<\/a><\/li>\n
  21. How Republicans Really Balance State Budgets<\/a><\/li>\n
  22. Video from Shuttle booster falling back to Earth<\/a>. So. Very. Cool.<\/li>\n
  23. Kevin Moore responds to that “Oh, what has become of 20-somethings?” article in the Times.<\/a><\/li>\n
  24. How to make an easy paper model of a tricorner hat, for drawing reference<\/a>.<\/li>\n
  25. It’s amazing how many clients who hire illustrators are really like this<\/a>.<\/li>\n
  26. “So the problem, you see, is not<\/a> that Cordoba House is too close to Ground Zero. It is too far away.”<\/li>\n
  27. If Captain America had a baby… that baby would live in terror<\/a>.<\/li>\n
  28. A Worldwide Revolt Against Poverty Wages<\/a><\/li>\n
  29. Nerd movies are consistently worth about $10 million in ticket sales<\/a> on the first weekend. Nerd appeal is not wide appeal, it seems.<\/li>\n
  30. What Does Obama Really Think About Gay Marriage? A Telling Timeline.<\/a><\/li>\n
  31. Lastly, I enjoyed looking through 1979 Semi-Finalist’s list of her 100 favorite comic book covers<\/a> (and 15 alternates<\/a>). They weren’t the 115 I’d have chosen, but she gave her reasons for choosing each one, which made it interesting. Of her 115 selections, these three are my favorites:<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n