Linkblogging For 30/03/10
I promise there’ll be several proper posts this week (two book reviews, a comics post and probably a politics one). In particular, I’ve decided that I’m going to do at least one comics post every week from now on – I’ve been neglecting that side of things too much. But for now, some links:
Lawrence Miles (that link will almost certainly break – he takes his blog posts down after a few days) talks about his problems with the Welsh Series, many of which I share. If it’s true that Stephen Moffat thinks having a DVD of Bagpuss is ‘sad’, then that right there tells me exactly why I’ve never warmed to his work.
Zom talks about Geoff Johns as outsider artist, while Tucker’s Comics Of The Weak is a thing of beauty this week.
This Is Terrorism is “a linkblog focusing on the radical movements inside America and how their activities should be considered outright terrorism, despite the fact that our government and media seem shy about using that particular word.”
Lots of people have covered the chancellors’ debate, but Millennium has everything you need to hear on the subject.
Pillock has a new meme
And LessWrong look at the Bjelakovic meta-analyses of vitamins (trumpeted at the time as the final nail in the coffin for dietary supplements) and find that they were total nonsense ( for reasons totally unrelated to the equally valid reasons for which I’d already dismissed it).
Linkblogging for 03/06/09
Euro campaigning has been very low-key around here (what little I’ve done has been Hope Not Hate stuff rather than specifically Lib Dem) but I’ll be spending as much of tomorrow as I can (given the weather, which is almost literally killing me at the moment) out and about door-knocking and leafletting, so the earliest you’re likely to get another post from me is Friday (and probably not then, as Holly gets back from the US then). So these will have to tide you over til then:
Millennium Dome, Elephant has views on the rats abandoning the sinking cabinet.
Calamity Jon has a look at the 1991 Amazing Heroes Swimsuit edition. If you’ve ever wanted to see Olive Oyl, Wolverine or the cast of TaleSpin in swimwear, then you’re a sick and disturbed individual. If you’ve never wanted to see those things but have a morbid curiosity now I’ve mentioned it, head over there…
Gavin B has a great post on ‘slag-off’ punk songs.
XKCD is especially good today.
Fred Clark has a post on the ‘pro-life’, ‘Christian’ terrorist who killed a doctor in church the other day. (This is not an invitation for a debate on abortion in the comments here, incidentally. I am willing to assume that most people on both sides are people of good will, and I have friends on both sides of the argument and want to keep them, and I have never yet seen a discussion of abortion that didn’t descend into needless abuse. On the other hand, none of my friends are pro-shooting-people, I hope).
And The Beast Must Die has a great comic strip he created for a children’s comic that unfortunately didn’t happen – Abel And Baker – Monkeys In Space
Expect reviews of Seaguy and Batman And Robin on Friday or Saturday, and a BFAW on Sunday. I may get a politics post up tomorrow once we know what the election’s looking like. In the meantime, if you’re in Europe, please go out and vote tomorrow, and please don’t vote for UKIP or the BNP – remember UKIP are liars and racists who hate my marriage and the BNP are even more contemptible (but less electable) than that. At the moment it looks like a three-way tie between the Lib Dems, Labour and UKIP for second place – current polls have them all more or less within a margin of error of each other – and I’d hate to see the racist bastards get more seats than us…
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