Welcome to the (serving) machine
From an upcoming PBS programme America Revealed, this visualisation of just how that one pizza (and its ingredients) make it’s way to your doorstep.
Today’s bookmarks
Tue, 19 Jun 2012
- How We Talk About A Bacon Sundae
- How Anthony Bourdain became Anthony Bourdain
- Amazing 1:1 Scale Replica of the Mines of Moria Built in Minecraft
- Film Crit Hulk Smash: THE DAMON LINDLEOF INTERVENTION
- Trying to purge London of sex workers before the Olympics is having an adverse effect
- New Pixar film not teeming with truculent piss-artists
“It would be nice if Brave was a little more authentically Scottish but then they would have to change the name to Fuck You, Ya Prick and it wouldn’t get a PG rating outside of Scotland.”
- J.D. Williams of ‘The Wire’ Says Stop-and-Frisk Cops Forget He’s Not a Real Drug Dealer
- Infographic: The World Without the Internet
And then this:
Post-Prometheus discussion…
Mon, 18 Jun 2012
I keep telling myself that the last post about Prometheus would, well… be the last post about Prometheus, but this concise list of 43 ‘lessons’ learned from the science from the film, then led to this post-viewing analysis that is now my official favourite response to the film.
Caution: spoilers somewhat ahead.
Breaking Bad S1-4 recap
Okay, so it’s another video that uses the Requiem for a Dream overture, but this chronological recap of Breaking Bad’s first four seasons is phenomenally well done and worth a watch before season 5 starts next month (woo!).
Warning: herein contains spoilers…
Today’s bookmarks
- Backstage gossip from touring Guns N Roses roadies
- The Necronomicon-Thin Crust pizza (I like to call it a Necronominom)
- How a Boiled squid inseminated a woman’s mouth
- Stoya on the difference between a prostitute and a porn actress
- Yanis Varoufakis on becoming Valve’s economist-in-residence for their virtual economies
- Why smart people can be so dumb
- Is Creativity Sexy? The Evolutionary Advantages of Artistic Thinking
- Singularity University Rule #1: The best way to predict the future is to invent it
- Lifehacker’s guide on how to tie your running shoes
- New Yorker’s Ryan Lizza on reporting and how Twitter has fostered a crisis in political journalism
- These are the books that will make you totally undateable
“Eat Pray Love. Elizabeth Gilbert isn’t a bad person, but if this book is your choice, you are.”
- Interesting discussion on How To Talk About Books You Haven’t Read
“Non-reading is not just the absence of reading. It is a genuine activity, one that consists of adopting a stance in relation to the immense tide of books that protects you from drowning. On that basis, it deserves to be defended and even taught.”
- A visual summary of Michael Fassbender’s role in Prometheus
- Oh Christ, I thought I could avoid posting a “call me maybe” cover thing, but this MC Chris version with bath salts zombies is catchy.
- Also, Star Wars subtitled with existential philosophy
And for your funny late show segment of the day, here’s 30 Rock’s nice guy Jack McBrayer and Triumph the Insult Comic Dog visiting the Weiner Circle, Chicago’s infamously hostile hot dog stand.