Sat 18 Jul 2009
The Week in Links #11
By• Upgrade your typography. Totally sweet free fronts from Fontfabric.
• Rock Band opening track creation/sales to home users. Big news.
• Advertising fresh fish, literally.
• ‘”Heart of Steel” — huh? Then why aren’t these tears metal? Why do they burn so?’ (Whatever, Superman…).
• The September Issue. Forthcoming documentary on the making of Vogue’s biggest yearly issue.
• The Noam Chomsky Show. “…You are NOT the father of post-structuralism!”
• Janey Thomson’s Marathon. A 26-mile marathon simulator in the 8-bit style. There’s no pause!
• How Twitter killed blogs. This piece is going to be written more often in coming months.
• Star Wars Uncut. Sign up to film one of the 472 15-second clips needed for this crowd-sourced remake.
• World’s fastest people at all kinds of different stuff. You should watch this, quick.
• Toynbee on the pervasive, evil power of Rupert Murdoch. Dude’s the devil in a suit and you’re his consumer.
• Ban this sick filth. Wired looks at games for pubescent girls and the values they teach.
• Shadow art created from junk sculptures. Definitely the best thing you’ll ever see today.
• Good grief.
• If you’ve not seen Anvil! The Story of Anvil yet then you should totally put that right.
• Street Fighter II: CE in your browser.
• On the near impossibility of rating Scribblenauts.
• A metaphor.



