{"id":1937,"date":"2009-11-20T12:38:52","date_gmt":"2009-11-20T18:38:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tancos.net\/wp\/?p=1937"},"modified":"2009-11-20T12:38:52","modified_gmt":"2009-11-20T18:38:52","slug":"friday-linkdump","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/friday-linkdump\/","title":{"rendered":"Friday linkdump"},"content":{"rendered":"

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The website for Satoshi Kon’s current project is active<\/a>. Yume-Miru Kikai<\/b><\/i> looks like a significant departure from Kon’s previous work, at least visually, and unlike Paranoia Agent<\/b><\/i> and Paprika<\/b><\/i>, this “future folklore story” might be suitable for all ages.<\/p>\n

An appreciation of the background art of Oh! Edo Rocket<\/b><\/i><\/a>.<\/p>\n

For anyone who’s ever said “Huh?” at a renaissance faire<\/a>.<\/p>\n

If you’re in the Minneapolis area, you can catch a performance of “A Christmas Carol” in Klingon<\/a>. (Via Maureen the Suburban Banshee<\/a>.)<\/p>\n

A three-dimensional Mandelbrot set<\/a>? (also via Maureen<\/a>.)<\/p>\n

Bored with caricaturing Roman Catholicism, manga artists have discovered the Eastern Orthodox<\/a>.<\/p>\n

An old interview with the late John Sladek<\/a> I came across recently. Sladek<\/a>, discoverer of the thirteenth sign of the zodiac (Arachne, May 13 to June 9), ((For the morbidly curious, my own sign is “No parking \u2014 violators will be towed at owner expense.”)) was one of the last century’s best satirists and is of my favorite writers.<\/p>\n

Meep<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Thinking about large numbers<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Keep an eye on those ducks:
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[audio:http:\/\/tancos.net\/audio\/02 Thus Quacked Zarathustra.mp3]<\/center><\/p>\n

Public service announcement: the complete Dirty Pair TV<\/b><\/i> is out there, subtitled, if you know where to look.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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