As ever, I feel that if I post something new here it will cover the things previously posted so that they stop dead. This is why I'm always nervous posting the item which follows a Stay Tuned announcement, because I assume that as soon as I post something else, those of you who hadn't gone to the Stay Tuned by the time I posted that will now never go to it.
A somewhat more rational fear is that as soon as I post a new item, it effectively kills any further comments on old items. When I post comments to other people's journals, after all, I rarely go back and check for further activity unless I'm really interested in the discussion. Most of my comments are drive-bys and I expect that most of yours are too.
This also impairs situations where I find later updates to an item. For example, those of you who read the post about fanlib.com on the day of posting and didn't come back (and why should you have?) missed something I added the next day ... and thus missed the rare privilege of knowing about some dirt - via
darkrosetiger, who deserves all the credit - before Making Light got to it.Anyway, so, I'm pretty sure that by posting again today I am killing the necktie conversation and everything else that has been said or done here in the last week, but too bad. The moving finger writes, as the man said, and when the moving finger is Boing Boing it provides us with such irresistable material as:
- Giant collective game of Breakout for movie theatres. Very cool. If you'd like to try it in advance, here's the (non-collective) web version. Like all versions of Breakout, bewilderingly compelling. Plus, you get news on the side! This may be the first good idea MSNBC has ever had.
- How to make OpenCola. This is an interesting variation on the standard cola formula - to oversimplify wildly, colas are a "fantasia" of a cherry or nut-like note, a vanilla note, and a citrus note, plus some spices. This recipe is going to lean heavily toward the citric (cassia is cinnamon; neroli is bergamot/bitter orange), and I think the addition of lavender is going to be a mite weird. If you are crazy enough to try it (and can get your hands on the oils and gum arabic - make sure they're all food-grade, ok?), let me know how it tastes - but I'm not holding my breath.
- Paper models of Star Wars thangs, among others. I am tempted, but my time is so scarce right now that I really can't justify sparing several hours of it to make a paper AT-AT.
- Unrelated, same source: Doctorow's profound observation of yet another hole in Star Wars logic.
- And speaking of Star Wars, a number of people have observed that a new Rem Koolhaas building (to be built in the Middle East, of course - it would have to be there or southeast Asia, because this kind of Big Showoff Architecture calls for tons of money/ego/something to prove, and those are the only two areas with a market for such things right now) bears a certain resemblance to something else entirely. (Read the comments, they're hilarious.)
- Forthcoming video documentary about gold farmers. (No, not that kind of gold farmer, Robert.) This looks like it's an excellent piece of work; the problem is, I don't want to watch it because I am scared it will make these people seem sympathetic to me, and they're a damned nuisance which needs to be abolished.
