Monday, January 19, 2015

Link Round-Up: January 19, 2015

Clash of Pop Cultures by Billcreative

"Western X Japanese Pop Culture for Popcon Asia 2014
Featuring : Gipsy Danger, Godzilla (Legendary), Groot, Ryu, Batman, Big Boss"


News: Welcome to Night Vale has a shiny new YouTube channel and a shiny new U.S. tour!

Hermione Granger and the Goddamn Patriarchy: BuzzFeed imagines how the story would go if Hermione were the main character in the “Harry Potter” series.

Household Hacker demonstrates a simple way to create a safe drinking class from a a beer bottle using only some isopropyl alcohol, cold water, a lighter and a bit of string. They also stress that this method can take a bit of time, so patience and safety are of the utmost importance.  The video leaves me with a nagging itch to try cutting other things with burning string.


Play Choose your Own Adventure on Twitter!  Here's how it was created with InkleWriter, a web tool specifically for writing Interactive Fiction.

The Silmarillion Recaps: Of Jerk Elves and Really Shiny Jewels

Stanford design lecturer John Edmark has created a series of 3D-printed sculptures that appear to animate when spun under a strobe light. The sculptures are inspired by the golden spiral. The animation effect occurs when the sculpture’s rotation and the frequency of a strobe light are synced so the sculpture is seen every 137.5 degrees (also known as the golden angle). Edmark explains the math and design of the sculptures in detail on Instructables.

These temporary Firefly tattoos from Pop Geek will probably last longer than the series did. Ouch.


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