Links posted on January 13, 2008
Top of the Crops 2007 - Circlemakers.org shares their top Crop Circles of 2007. Via the highly enjoyable Wikipedia page detailing a putative reply to our Arecibo Message. (more, tin foil hat recommended.)
Mr. XKCD [vid] gives a talk @Google. Impromptu (which shows, a bit) but funny... And what a crowd! Guest appearances by Guido van Rossum (author of Python) and Donald Knuth (father of Computer Science, author of TeΧ and The Art of Computer Programming). </geek>
Scandal and controversy in the world of competitive scrapbooking - Too much to take in: $2.6-billion industry... boycotts... the phrase 'quarter-life crisis'...
An avant-garde Hall of Fame scrapbooker -- part of a movement of 'scrappers who use "loneliness, narcissism and rage" rather than "teddy bear stamps, snowflake stencils and cupcakes" -- is stripped of her title. If this were april-1st I'd think it was a great hoax, but it's in the LA Times. Fake? not Fake? Who knows: enjoyable. [thx kottke] [more inside]