"talks of small things it sets up all things/this'll master money, though money masters all things"

[larryhammer]

Best Flash timesinks toys of the week: create music either deterministically or chaotically. Click about to play, and see you in an hour or two. (via 1/2)

Best video evidence of timesinkage of the week: Building a LEGO ship in a bottle: "This project took a week of planning, three days of building, a large number of expletives, and some interesting use of long tools." That third especially, I suspect. (via)

Best video of the week: Time-lapse video of Tokyo at night, contrasting the same shots before and after last month's quake to showing how the skyline has been darkened by power conservation. (via)

Best quiz of the week: Pierley/Redford Dissociative Affect Diagnostic, with questions like "Which shape wants to hurt you?" It's ... an interesting experience. Don't click through if flickering screens cause you problems. (via)

Best snark of the week: Six socially conscious actions that only look like that they help, and why/how they end up half-assed in execution. (via)

Best advice of the week: How to steal like an artist. (via)

Best: "I Am Not a Camera" by W.H. Auden, with Isherwoodian context. (via)

---L.

Comments

[larryhammer]

I don't agree with everything in How to Steal, but even where I disagree there's much good sense in what he says.

---L.

[janni.livejournal.com]

I think I agree with the first three, but not the second ... for food, reusable bags, and hybrid vehicles, the problem seems to be less in the thing itself, and more in what the people doing it do--in ways that can be addressed without all that much difficulty. (Don't drive more or build a bigger house just because you can afford it. Work harder at remembering your bags, if you have enough at home don't keep buying more, and don't only use grocery-store approved ones, but also whatever tote bags come your way.)

[larryhammer]

The Cracked list is a mix of things that are half-assed in themselves and that typically end up half-assed in execution.

---L.

[janni.livejournal.com]

No argument about the execution problems. Or about the first three, really.

[swan-tower.livejournal.com]

Yeah, the last two I was sticking my tongue out at the screen. I take my bags back to the store (and use a motley assortment of them to boot), and I've taken to biking around for local errands instead of waiting for kniedzw to come home with the hybrid. Take that, Cracked!