Great God! This is an awful list. (Here if you don't want the fancy voting panel which disappears once you've voted.) I mean, seriously - Thomas Friedman? Pope Benedict XVI? Larry Fucking Summers?

Via Unspeak.

Alright, if you must know - I voted for Chompers, Lawrence Lessig, Jared Diamond, Umberto Eco, and Tony Judt (because if Richard Dawkins gets any more publicity his head will explode). Then I wrote in Thomas Frank just to be irritating.

Drumbeats of the Decline and Fall of Western Civilisation No.3,876,262



Via theinferior4+1.

Uçhisar Castle

The map's not that interesting, but the comment thread is hilarious.

Slower to this than usual, but here's GeoGreeting.

Via Eyeteeth.

Via the boings, this is tres cool - a Jack Chick style comic book history of LSD.

Just a reminder: 360° Cities

At Nitrome: Dirk Valentine, Chaingun Wielding Steampunk Hero.

Via Brass Goggles, of course.

Please do not write below the line

Barack Obama, Klingon

Plus a few others.

Via A Tiny Revolution.

Slow motion face slap.

Creepy follow-the-mouse avatar.

Via TomDispatch, the animated version of the graphic novel version of Howard Zinn's A People's History of the United States American Empire.

Oh, did I mention -

FAFBLOG!!!!!!

Raed Jarrar:

I was told by one of the officials that wearing a t-shirt with Arabic script in an airport now is like going to a bank with a t-shirt that reads, “I am a robber.”

Yes, I believe that's how they caught Dillinger.

Meanwhile, FAFBLOG!

Top Ten Sweded Films

This was, like, so totally posted on the 1st.

Yes, folks, we've been here five years. Cue David Bowie. Thanks, Dave!

And, yes, folks, I couldn't be bothered waiting until the actual day to post this.

There's another five year anniversary I could have mentioned this month, but I try to steer clear of angry rants on this weblog. They're for elsewhere.

Here's a song for that one. Yes, I know it's not really about Iraq. The lead singer should send a memo to the guitarist.

Kinetic Typography

See also:

Top 12 kinetic typography films at The Place João Bordalo Calls Home

15 stunning motion typography videos at Marco Folio

(and via) Great scenes from television and film told using only typography at Always Watching

Stop-motion cardboard cut-out animation of light cycle scene fron Tron. Is this the sort of thing we apparently call "sweded" now?

Via Drawn!.

Lisa Anne Auerbach's The Little Red Blog of Revolutionary Knitting

Via Eyeteeth.

Endings depress me. Rankings irk me. This is hell.

(And a pdf file.)

Via Talking Squid.

Now you don't need to climb Everest.

(Not that anyone ever did, mind.)

Ah, the old George Bush Speechalist bit. Good to see it's still around.

Self-destructing website

NB: largish flash animation.

Harlan Ellison interviewed (click the "Listen to the interview" link for the whole thing) at Salon, about, ostensibly, the new documentary Dreams With Sharp Teeth. Trailer, footage of the premiere speeches and Q & A, and various readings available at the site. See also Ellison's thoughts on the proposed WGA contract, just for the hell of it.