I can’t say I’m a fan of the new interface, but there’s still a lot of great photography to be found on Flickr. This one made me laugh aloud:
So serious.
Amusing
How to tow a camper (Sort of)
Oh, Top Gear. Don’t ever change.
A Canadian vignette
I have this single scene for a film in my head, very Canadian: a shot of a southbound V of geese, moving across a pale blue sky. The camera pans down to a solitary person on the ground, standing in the middle of the street, yelling up at them, “Quitters! Get back here!”
Filmmakers: If you’d like to use this in your film, please let me know. I’m sure we can work something out.
Thunderstorms
I think that might be the first judo class we’ve called on account of rain.
Hobbes and Bacon
Another of my Facebook friend just discovered the brilliant Hobbes & Bacon. If you haven’t read it yet, what are you waiting for?
iPhone photography
It’s been a good day for taking photos with my phone, evidently.
Snow for May Day.
Someone loves the Duke.
My favourite of all the false messiahs.
Happy Hollow Bean, everybody
This is still one of my favourite quotes on the subject of All Hallows’ Eve:
“Who holds this celebration?”
“The children, who actually rule the Blue Planet of Earth. They are more intelligent than the older people and outrun them on bicycles.”
Ficlets
Some of my short fiction — all the stuff I posted on Ficlets (RIP), for instance — is licensed with a rather permissive Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike license. This means that when it turns up on a site like Compumatrix, I can’t request that it be taken down.
Not that this bothers me, really. My words are being read, and sometimes in places I’d never expect. Maybe it torques me a little that someone’s “monetized” my works, but I have the feeling that the money involved is pretty small. (I don’t know; maybe “Wilma(logima)” is rolling in long green thanks to me. I doubt I’ll ever know for sure. I also doubt I’ll lose sleep over it.)
Most of the ficlets that I wrote were dashed off in fifteen minutes; sometimes the hardest part was trimming them down to fit the site’s 1024-character maximum. I’m glad people still find them so fascinating.
Places I’ve found my ficlets
- The Ficlets memorial (globviously)
- Ecclectica (where I had seven of them published)
- Storified on Twitter by @auditoriumchgo
- In a couple of places on Tumblr
- Remixed into a group of paintings by Ron Hartgrove
- WebJournalism UHartford, whatever that might be.
- Remixed into an online Mad Lib.
- On a dude’s blog.
- In an Arabic-language forum.
- Not
hereanymore — the blog has been removed. - Someone made a video out of “The Wait”.
- A font-pairing concierge.
I’m sure it’s popped up other places, some of which I’ll eventually stumble upon. Like I said, the Ficlets are licensed permissively, and I have no intentions of trying to get any of them taken down. (I’ll do what I can to make sure they’re properly attributed, of course.) I’m just glad people are enjoying my fiction.
Speaking of which: There’s more fiction over here, if you’re interested. (The bulk of which, please note, is not CC-licensed.)
Bring Gloves and Chainsaws
For whatever reason, the last couple lines on this lovely poster really stood out for me.
“Japan’s first robot buddy cop movie”
There’s a phrase that makes me perk right up and pay attention. I found this on the Internet, thanks to Wil Wheaton, and it struck me that whether or not it’s true, the story is awesome.
And I quote:
Japan’s first robot buddy cop movie, a silent film released in 1919, was shown only once, to an assembly of wealthy land owners in Tokyo. When the film ended, the audience demand for affordable giant robots to work their fields and control the peasants was so insistent, emperor Hirohito had the only copy of the film impounded and destroyed to prevent the idea from capturing the public’s imagination.
Found via Wil Wheaton’s tumblr. Go ahead, click through. There’s a great photo and everything.