News You Can Bruise for 2008 December 29 (entry 0)

(1) Mon Dec 29 2008 09:03 Best of Bookmarks: November-December: At this point we're close enough to the present that I could just write weblog entries about these, but I press on. Happy 2008!

• The distinctive Halloween costume of my former co-worker, Brian Fitzpatrick.
• One of the themes of this series is me confessing my failure to find something cool and asking for help. I would really like to read this paper on Soviet attempts to build an Internet.
• A Digg-bait list of "bad" local TV ads, two of which (the first and fourth) are actually intentionally funny, and one of which (the third) at least makes sense once you know the local context. The guy in the third commercial has his own sketch-comedy sitcom on local TV which is really unbelievably bad, but even then he gets points for incorporating the employees of his furniture store into the sitcom.
• I wanted a mashup of the Last Supper with Dogs Playing Poker. Then I saw that very thing and stopped wanting it. I can only conclude that that picture causes anhedonia.
• A 13-part documentary on the history of Atari.
• A good guide to non-game homebrew DS software.

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Comments:

Posted by Hannah Cairns at Mon Dec 29 2008 20:38

Oh, it looks like I have access to it via UBC's library subscriptions, so I just sent it to you. (That was straightforward.)