Tuesday links

[yendi]

(Note: We've got a major project going live this week, so I'll be scarce(r) than usual, for those who care)

1. This might be the coolest fictional map I've seen in a long time. The idea: an Earth with inverted land and water, so that 70% of the planet is now land. Very nifty.

2. Today's moment of wrong: Wonder Woman Scissors.

3. Today's other moment of wrong: Greg Maddux and his love of golden showers.

4. The Dick Cheney Emotional Chart (ganked from Making Light). I sense an LJ mood theme here.

5. Amazon's latest DVD sale consists of a bunch of $7.99 titles (47% off), including Labyrinth, The Dark Crystal, Das Boot, Matilda, 13 Going on 30, and Gattica. About 100 titles overall.

6. Obligatory KOL update: At level 11, with 1.8 of the quests complete (finished the Hidden City, and got the Mega Gem on my final turn of the day). The RNG has not been friendly.

7. Reading tammy212's thoughts on Dark Horse's decision to reissue the Gor novels, I have to wonder what would have happened if the books had been written fifteen years later. Would they simply have faded into the vast internet porn superstructure, never to be seen again? Would Dark Horse then have more money to spend on useful things, like bringing out Usagi Yojimbo collections faster?

8. Jerry Seinfeld will appear on the season premiere of 30 Rock! Yay! I can only hope he spikes the ratings here just like he did with his guest appearance on Dilbert. Um. Or maybe a wee bit more.

9. Shorter Vitter denial: "Sure, I might have slept with a Washington prostitute, but not with those skanks from back home." Yay, family values!

10. Finally, it's nice to see the RIAA take it on the chin again. It's something that simply can't happen often enough.

Comments

[emilytheslayer.livejournal.com]

Oh yeah, you can get those scissors, or some very much like them (but I think slightly less wrong) at Magpie in Davis Sq! They had Superman scisssors too, last time I was in.

[lokilokust.livejournal.com]

it's not just absurd level of misogyny in the gor novels that makes me shake me head while bile rises, it's also the fact that they are so incredibly poorly written that i can't fathom a world in which people are stupid enough to consider them 'classic' in any fucking way.
but, still, it's mostly the misogyny.

[reannon.livejournal.com]

I'm sorry to say there is already a Dick Cheney mood theme on LJ. My friend lunza uses it, I think primarily to disturb me. :)

[themaskmaker.livejournal.com]

Wonder Woman scissors: wrong in so many, many ways.

[fmh.livejournal.com]

Inverted map is very cool, I want that for my wall.

[cktraveler.livejournal.com]

Dark Horse is reissuing the Gor books? That's it. I'm writing the Cartaga LARP now, in which women rule the world and keep harems of male slaves.

The twisted thing is, even inasmuch as I had Gor in mind when I was brainstorming Cartaga, I did not go nearly as far as Norman did -- it would have turned my stomach. And I think I put far more thought into Cartaga's backstory than Norman ever did into Gor's.

[cissa.livejournal.com]

It amazes me how het up some people get about so-called man-bashing feminist utopian/dystopian novels (Sherri Tepper springs to mind), but who have no problems at all with Gor and its ilk. And the feminist stuff is way milder.

I do find a certain amount of role-reversal amusing... but I'm pretty sure I'd balk at a complete sex-switch of Gor. That's one reason I didn't care for Bishop's "Black Jewels" novels; not only did the society not make any sense, but the Gor-like (in some ways) enslavement of the males was troublesome. And, in those books, it's the villains (OK, villainesses) who do the enslaving, NOT THE HEROES. And the slaves found happiness OUT of slavery, not IN it. And still- it was really disturbing.

[dark-blade.livejournal.com]

DC Animated Universe sets are on higher sale than normal right now, averaging $20 a season.

[ldy.livejournal.com]

Pardon me, sir, but you have seen this, no?

http://www.baconsalt.com/buy/

Hooray, baconsalt!