Bugs Bunny in Christmas (YouTube)
This is about as holiday as I'm going to get for you: a horrid minute of a bootleg Bugs Bunny doing a motion capture seizure to Christmas music. Enjoy.
Clause and Effect (NYTimes via Daring Fireball)
Fascinating look at how a misplaced trust in 18th century commas is messing up the way we interpret the Second Amendment.
Peter Jackson making TWO Hobbit movies. (The One Ring.net)
Hard to believe the litigants got their heads out of their asses for this one. I'm already predicting that the second movie (covering the WTF period between "The Hobbit" and "The Fellowship of the Ring"... what, three hours of Bilbo making tea?) won't actually happen. Looks like it's time to start visiting TheOneRing.net again; haven't been there in five years.
Adobe Easter Eggs (TrainStation)
A pile of hidden secrets found in recent Adobe releases... apparently the Adobe Space Monkey graphic will also show up if you've screwed up your install, as a punishment for tinkering where you shouldn't (and perhaps trying to do something illicit.)
"Anime: Drawing a Revolution" is Garbage (Toon Zone)
Fun review trashing a slapdash documentary on anime.
The fact that this documentary is only interested in examining anime as it can be appropriated by American culture is also revealed by the fact that there are exactly two Japanese speakers in the entire movie, both of whom are given the same amount of screen time as actor Michael Madsen expressing genuine surprise that a cartoon could have real emotional impact
Iron Man in LEGO (Brickshelf via Gizmodo)
Honestly, I could link out to various creations on Brickshelf every day of the week, but this Iron Man sculpture is exceptionally amazing.
Silent Night, Hungry Night PDF (Pinnacle Games)
A Deadlands RPG one-sheet adventure that sets up A Very Doomtown Christmas Special.
Futurama: The Geekiest Show on TV (Wired)
From the article:
Cohen refers to a One Percent Rule that guided the writing on Futurama. When they were scripting the episode "Kif Gets Knocked Up a Notch," a character claims that he painstakingly programmed a holographic simulation using "4 million lines of BASIC." One writer pointed out that 99 percent of the audience wouldn't get the reference to an old programming language. Producer-writer Eric Kaplan responded, "Fuck them!"
That reminds me of Joel Hodgson's inspirational methodology when he was writing MST3K: "The right people will get this."
