(For some reason del.icio.us failed to post yesterday’s linklog, so I’m posting these links manually while I figure out what went wrong.)
Topless Robot – The 10 Most Insane, Child-Warping Moments of ’80s Cartoons Oh man, I remember the GI Joe “Everyone around Shipwreck melts” episode. It really did disturb me as a kid. /
fun
retro
cartoons
video
tv
Rick Astley on Rickrolling. /
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music
culture
net
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Milking It. Washington Independent on the bovine hormone rBST, and AFACT, Monsanto’s front group for fighting milk hormone labeling. /
milk
cows
farms
politics
food
customerservice
monsanto
Sneaky Safari Updater opinion roundup – The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW) On Apple pushing Safari on Windows users via a pre-checked option in the Apple Software Update application. /
apple
safari
browsers
windows
The ’80s Video That Pops Up, Online and Off – New York Times Rickrolling makes the NYTimes. More info on Rickrolling here.
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pranks
video
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rickastley
music
retro
net
Zeitgeist Rebuttal Speech. Thorough debunk of an absurd conspiracy film. On Xanga, unfortunately. /
faith
history
theology
conspiracy
hoaxes
Apologetic roundup of Tektonics articles debunking “copycat” religious conspiracy theories. Nice link to address the misconception that Jewish and Christian beliefs were derived or plagiarized from other pagan cultures. /
faith
history
religion
How to Pronounce Basic Mandarin Chinese Phrases With playable sound samples. /
chinese
language
sound
30 Error Messages You Never Want to See | Cracked.com Fun Photoshop error screens and dialogs. /
fun
ui
error
oops
tech
satire
photoshop
What Will Life Be Like in the Year 2008? As foretold by Modern Mechanix in Nov. 1968. /
fun
future
retro
tech
260 – You’ll Never Moonwalk Alone – Strange Maps Map of Apollo 11 EVA superimposed over a football pitch to show just how small an area the first moonwalk covered. /
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space
moon
visualization
maps
apollo
history