‘The Errant Apprentice’ by Andy M. Stewart
Andy has fun writing lyrics.
Shanley, “Misogyny and the Marketing Chick” (via theoreticalgirl)
Wow this is absolutely a great essay on corporate/tech culture.
(via bmichael)
The only thing I think should’ve been added to this excellent story is something about how subculture exclusion practices enable this. The pathological end of Nerd-programmer culture rages against the suits, and the Marketing chick is the lowest status suit, and thus the easiest target.
Where did he get the Sonic Screwdriver in frame 1?
“Rest is for the weary, sleep is for the dead.” -The Sixth Doctor
well. one of my personal favorite slogans, or a version of it. :)
New Color (or Colour) Pertwee! go restorers…
Third Doctor serial ‘Mind of Evil’ restored to color for the first time in 40 years
via DoctorWho.tv:
- Due to a policy of “junking” video tapes in the 1960s and 70s, the original colour versions of all episodes of The Mind of Evil were lost, with only black and white copies remaining in the archives. Two types of colour restoration were used on this release:
- Colour recovery was used on episodes 2-6, where the B&W tapes retained the original colour information, hidden in their signal. These were restored by Richard Russell of the Colour Recovery Working Group.
- Manual colourisation was needed for episode 1, where due to the original colour-to-B&W transfer settings, no hidden colour information existed. Stuart Humphryes manually recoloured every fifth frame (out of 36,000!) in Photoshop, and the information in these “key frames” was then extrapolated out over subsequent frames.
The re-colored version of Mind of Evil is now available on DVD.
THROWBACK THURSDAY How Daft Punk Scored Its First Record Deal on Myspace | In 1993, Stuart McMillan and his DJ partner Orde Meikle signed the then-unknown French duo to their label Soma Quality Recordings. Here, McMillan recounts his early history before they became robot titans.
For people who might follow me and also be interested in Daft Punk and also not too embarrassed to click on a MySpace link.
Juggalo’s Surrender by Jeffrey Anne Durango
‘1952 Vincent Black Lightning’ by The Del McCoury Band
my second favorite cover of this.
The first film I remember crying in front of was OLD YELLER, but only because my mum hit me for laughing when the dog got shot
This is why I am on Tumblr. This and cat macros.
dontblinktheangelshavecamelot:
Look! There was a fan fiction article in today’s Washington Express (a free daily I newspaper put out by the Washington Post in Washington DC)
Article credit, Beth Marlowe (Express)
Art credit, Patrick Leger (For Express)
You don’t have to sign up to read stories on ArchiveOfOurOwn though. Just to post them :)
I’m just sitting here chuckling at the illo.
You can tell this was written by someone in fandom because they got the definition of “slash” right. \o/
I also like the observation that fan fiction isn’t just a late-twentieth-century invention. And a nod to Teaspoon in the sidebar! And laughing at the description of the Pit of Voles as “massive, if somewhat impersonal”.
Grossman’s description (“one of the great unsung popular literary movements of the last 50 years”) is apt. Now I want to know how soon we’ll start seeing courses and eventually PhDs in FanFic. Or at least MFAs…
Onward, my plaid steed…
Real men wear kilts and carry kitten in their kilt pouch thingies.
If you’re not reblogging a kitten in a sporran, there’s something wrong with you.
If you’re not reblogging a kitten in a sporran, there’s something wrong with you.
there are lots of things wrong with me but THIS ISNT ONE OF THEM
Still can’t figure out the tartan. It’s not Campbell Ancient…
