Friday afternoon linkdump

[yendi]

1. The IFC uses the Approval Matrix on Stephen King.

2. Amazon has yet another massive TV/DVD sale. This one has lots of Sopranos, The O.C., Deadwood, Gilmore Girls, Dr. Who, ER, and assorted British comedies at 44-65% off. There's also some good cartoons (Wacky Races, Dastardly and Muttley, etc) and season one of Big Love.

3. As noted by corwinok, tomorrow is Free RPG Day!

4. Stupid Design!

5. Related: Why the eye really does make sense, from an evolutionary perspective.

6. Once again, dog bites man.

7. Happier stuff: Lots more pictures from last weekend's Cambridge River Festival. Including a squid lady.

8. Folksonomy has been declared the most annoying web-popularized word, beating out blogosphere, cookie, wiki, and Harry Knowles. This, folks, is why I don't believe in surveys.

9. The Onion on the iPhone: Comes with an iPhone hat.

10. Finally, your weekend time-waster: Onslaught 2. It's yet another Tower Defense Game. But it has combos!

Comments

[boutell.livejournal.com]

I don't understand what is annoying about any of those words.

[jmspencer.livejournal.com]

i'm actually running an XCrawl one-shot for FreeRPG Day tomorrow at 1 PM at Your Move Games in Somerville.

[rubian77.livejournal.com]

I love how the eye is now better explained.

From National Geographic (http://www7.nationalgeographic.com/ngm/0611/feature4/):
"Yet the eye is actually far from perfect. The retina is so loosely attached to the back of the eye in humans that a sharp punch to the head may be enough to detach it. Its light-gathering cells point inward, toward the brain, not out toward the light. And the optic nerve starts out in front of the retina and then plunges through it to go to the brain. The place where the optic nerve burrows through the retina becomes the eye's blind spot. Evolution, with all its blunders, made the eye; Darwin himself had no doubt about that. But how?"

[rubian77.livejournal.com]

addendum: Better explained, evolutionarily speaking.

(sorry.)

[catystorm.livejournal.com]

What the hell is a folksonomy? I've never heard that term before. I don't get the annoying thing either, unless you count the annoyance that I hadn't heard at least one of them. o_O

[not-hothead-yet.livejournal.com]

ditto

[not-hothead-yet.livejournal.com]

maybe we're just not web-savvy enough?

I truly find that hard to believe considering I rely on all my friends and beloved geeks to keep me up-to-date about everything via the intarwebs

[enderfem.livejournal.com]

Yay Big Love...I caught most of S1 in April/May, but I may have missed a few here and there.


Are you going to be in SoFL as well?

[cktraveler.livejournal.com]

I've never heard the word "folksonomy" in my life. I think I've also only heard the word "blogosphere" used sarcastically.