links for 2007-08-22

In which I hear tourists getting it wrong.

Remembering the comics and cards boom of the mid-1990s. X-Men! Superman! Magic The Gathering! Deathmate! So much wasted money.

Green and red at war.

Orwell writes about the experience of being shot in the neck.

But don't eat it.

Cartoon background panoramas stitched together from long-pan scenes in classic animated features.

Journal entries from a guy who drove right under the bridge mere seconds before it collapsed, then helped survivors.

Fascinating multiple-course "molecular gastronomy" meal.

DC drug store interior, c. 1921. Today known as CVS.

"If you examine his success in terms of facts and facts alone, what you see is that the Evil Genius scraped out two thin wins against Democratic opponents running campaigns that no one in their right mind would call brilliant."

Weird sim/scroller game where you play an idealistic Hill staffer.

Mad Mariner says photos of a yacht falling vertically into the water are real.

Ganns on Malu Fernandez.

Forum thread on free downloadable games.

Japanese phenomenon of reclusive people withdrawing from society, as described in this NYT mag article on shut-ins.

on "glamping," or glamour camping for the filthy rich who don't want to get filthy.

Cat with slice of cheese on face. Also known as a variety of Failcat.

Astronomy mode using high-res Hubble data. Bad Astro doesn't like it, though.