Image roundup

Eye of Sauron atop AT&T skyscraper.



Mobile phone with rotary dial.



Moon pic circa 2007.




Ice cream killed the dinosaurs.



Ken Jennings personalized a copy of his book with ninjas.

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Link roundup

1. Peter David recently posted a lengthy review of Timecop (originally published in 1994) and in part of the review offers a tip for making your day more exciting:

Me, I’ve got my own theory. I think that time is constantly in flux. That there are fault lines in the time stream, and they’re constantly shifting in thousands of little subtle ways, just like tremors rearranging California real estate. Or think of time as telephone lines stretching from the present back to infinity (kind of like Bill and Ted’s Excellent Adventure) and you get line noise that screws the connection up. It’s part of your day-to-day existence; you accept it and move on.

Proof? That’s easy.

Ever walk into a room to get something and suddenly you can’t remember what it was you wanted?

Ever put something down, go back and look for it, and it’s not there?

Ever run into someone who greets you like you’re old friends, and you are absolutely clueless as to their identity?

We chalk it off to lapsed memory, but it’s not. It’s Time Burps. You can’t remember what you wanted in the room because time just burped and suddenly the reason why you went in there ceased to exist. The item you put down has vanished because time burped and you never put it there in the first place. Your newfound old friend, in his or her past, was a close buddy, but in your own past, you never met.

2. From a review of a retelling of the Lord of the Rings:

In Yeskov's retelling, the wizard Gandalf is a war-monger intent on crushing the scientific and technological initiative of Mordor and its southern allies because science "destroys the harmony of the world and dries up the souls of men!" He's in cahoots with the elves, who aim to become "masters of the world," and turn Middle-earth into a "bad copy" of their magical homeland across the sea. Barad-dur, also known as the Dark Tower and Sauron's citadel, is, by contrast, described as "that amazing city of alchemists and poets, mechanics and astronomers, philosophers and physicians, the heart of the only civilization in Middle-earth to bet on rational knowledge and bravely pitch its barely adolescent technology against ancient magic."

Via.

3. Funny Dr. McNinja comic about raising kids.

House Ravenclaw and Baggins' Pawn Shop t-shirts

Ravenclaw Quidditch and Baggins' Pawn Shop t-shirts by spacemonkeydr on sale here.

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Stanley Kubrick's Lord of the Rings, Starring the Beatles

Here are all of the entries for this month's art contest with the most recent entries at the top. I'm having a bit of trouble picking a winner - - I've asked three people for their thoughts and all three picked a different entry. So, please help me out and tell me which one you like the most. Non-anonymous comments, please.



Joe D!. (He also put together a remix of Sgt. Pepper and Lux Aeterna from The Two Towers.)



Shane Parker.




Pauline Acalin.



Glenn G. Amspaugh.



Kristin Haffey.



Jason Chalker.




Helder Silva.



Dean Reeves.




Dean Reeves.




Carlos Melgares.



Cormac McEvoy.



Shane Parker.




Chris Furniss.



Tim Lemire.



Mike Groves.

*Buy Yellow Submarine toys at eBay.

Stanley Kubrick's Lord of the Rings, Starring the Beatles

Here are all of the entries for this month's art contest with the most recent entries at the top. I'm having a bit of trouble picking a winner - - I've asked three people for their thoughts and all three picked a different entry. So, please help me out and tell me which one you like the most. Non-anonymous comments, please.



Joe D!. (He also put together a remix of Sgt. Pepper and Lux Aeterna from The Two Towers.)



Shane Parker.




Pauline Acalin.



Glenn G. Amspaugh.



Kristin Haffey.



Jason Chalker.




Helder Silva.



Dean Reeves.




Dean Reeves.




Carlos Melgares.



Cormac McEvoy.



Shane Parker.




Chris Furniss.



Tim Lemire.



Mike Groves.

*Buy Yellow Submarine toys at eBay.

Stanley Kubrick's Lord of the Rings, Starring the Beatles

Four more outstanding entries in this month's art contest, which has a huge prize. I'm not sure why I originally picked midnight tonight as the deadline. So, I'm giving everyone until 8:00 p.m. California time this Sunday, January 2.


Jason Chalker.




Helder Silva.



Dean Reeves.



Carlos Melgares.

*Buy Yellow Submarine toys at eBay.

Stanley Kubrick's Lord of the Rings, Starring the Beatles

Three more terrific entries for this month's art contest, which has a huge prize.


Dean Reeves.



Cormac McEvoy.



Shane Parker.

Here's the other entries to date:


Chris Furniss.



Tim Lemire.



Mike Groves.

*Buy Yellow Submarine toys at eBay.