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A talk given by Matt Webb on fictional futures, and a whole lot besides. Just some text and some pictures, but he takes you on a most excellent brain adventure, from Italo Calvino to a map of all the biochemical reactions on Earth to Vannevar Bush’s machine, the Memex with dozens of stops in between. One of my favorite parts -- and the coolest use of RSS I've ever seen -- is a tool to subscribe to your personal lightcone. [via]
posted by stavrosthewonderchicken at 11:37 PM PST - 18 comments

Monday Flash Fun. In Mad Shark, you're an angry shark trying to get away from some evil experiments (probably the type mentioned here). You need to get away fast, but there's a catch! The faster you swim, the quicker you'll run out of strength. But don't worry. There's plenty of fish and scuba divers to eat. Secondary link in case the first bombs out.
posted by Effigy2000 at 8:09 PM PST - 26 comments

The cast of Battlestar Galactica drawn as Simpsons characters. (via)
posted by tvjunkie at 12:52 PM PST - 39 comments

Lapdogs: How the Press Rolled Over for Bush In this excerpt from his book, Eric Boehlert writes about how "[c]owardly and clueless, the U.S. media abandoned its post as Bush led the country into a disastrous war. A look inside one of the great journalistic collapses of our time."
posted by shivohum at 11:03 AM PST - 67 comments

When we last saw EA Spouse, she was married to an Electronic Arts employee and she painted a rather unflattering portrait of EA's programming employment practices. Now at last, Erin Hoffman's identity has been revealed. She and her husband have found employment in the field they love and they've established a website where people in the games industry can discuss the pros and cons of their jobs. Will it be enough to effect permanent change an industry that still has so much on the line? The recent EA settlement bodes well at least.
posted by ktoad at 9:54 AM PST - 30 comments

Why Hillary Can't Win (by Markos "Kos" Moulitsas). Why John Can't Win (by Byron York). (via)
posted by bardic at 9:47 AM PST - 89 comments

Advanced Animation by Preston Blair, "the best 'how to' book on cartoon animation ever published." Blair, a Disney and MGM animator, put the book together in 1947 to illustrate the various basic principles of animation, only to have the book pulled from shelves after the rights to use some of the characters were revoked. Animation historian Jerry Beck has been hunting for a first edition of Blair's landmark book for many years. He finally found a copy and is sharing high-quality scans on the Animation Archive. (Archive previously linked in this thread; discovered via this thread.)
posted by soiled cowboy at 9:16 AM PST - 11 comments

Happiness [pdf] A financial analysis.
posted by onalark at 9:05 AM PST - 75 comments

Every Playboy centerfold, December 1953 - May 2006. [NSFW]
Every Playboy centerfold, 1960-1999. [NSFW, via]
posted by dirtynumbangelboy at 8:05 AM PST - 123 comments

A Butterfly with transparent wings you say?
Indeed.
posted by Mutant at 7:50 AM PST - 22 comments

And so begins the startling adventures of the most sensational strip character of all time : SUPERMAN!
posted by crunchland at 6:34 AM PST - 24 comments