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  • Improved Relative Time

    2025AD? Wah? 3000BC? Who?? I know that I live in 18AiP (after iPhone)(as of 43AL (after laptop)) and that makes it much easier because its talking about things that I KNOW. I don’t know an anno domini, i dont know a christ, let alone trying to comprehend what came before them??

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  • The singular wit of one of the New Yorker’s first women cartoonists – Hyperallergic

    Born in San Francisco in 1899, Shermund moved to New York in 1924 to make her way as an artist. Her early cartoons centered on the character of the flapper — fashionably dressed, outspoken, and sexually liberated — whose comic interactions with other character types painted a picture of life in 1920s New York. Rendered in lines as crisp as the finest etching, and a sense of flapper style and posture drawn from life, Shermund’s young women gossiped in delis and on the subway; they smoked cigarettes and danced late into the night with married men; they woke up, horribly hungover. And while Shermund may have lampooned her flappers, her sharp social commentary took relationships between young women seriously, recognizing the true, even subversive solidarity between them. There’s a knowing wink under all that eyeshadow — each gossipy comment is a whispered secret.

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  • Funny haha – The European Review of Books

    That joke article appeared in the Dutch platform De Speld, our version of The Onion. Pretty much every European country has an Onion — Germany’s Der Postillon (founded in 2008), France’s Le Gorafi (2012), Austria’s Die Tagespresse (2013), Ireland’s Waterford Whispers (2009), Italy’s Lercio (2012), Spain’s El Mundo Today (2009) — indeed somehow has to have an Onion. They feel almost like public utilities, which is to say that they’ve come to be taken for granted. Satirical news is as old as real news, to be sure, but it has taken a particular form in our time. The Onion started as a satirical print newspaper in 1988 in Madison, Wisconsin, and has served as a blueprint for satirical news media around the world. « The Dutch version of The Onion » rings a bell in a way that « The German version of Private Eye » would not.

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  • DOOM: The Gallery Experience – Newgrounds

    DOOM: The Gallery Experience was created as an art piece designed to parody the wonderfully pretentious world of gallery openings. In this experience, you will be able to walk around and appreciate some fine art while sipping some wine and enjoying the complimentary hors d’oeuvres in the beautifully renovated and re-imagined E1M1 of id Software’s DOOM (1993).

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  • Linkfest #28: Neolithic octopuses, weeping trees, and a forty-year-old snowman – Clive Thompson

    For years now (I think it started around 2001) there’s been a web site that offers an exhaustive — and quite hilarious — faux-scientific taxonomy of the different types of bread clips. Apparently there are many varieties around the globe? So they’ve got pix of each major shape and its minor variations.
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  • The Necronomicon – Propnomicon

    After spending half an evening, this came out, and while I found it funny in a ridiculous way, I also realized this is probably so specific as to be funny only to a very specific intersection of demographics. I present, Penguin books’ post-war publication of The Necronomicon, well typeset and affordable for the common man. (I was pondering for a bit whether it would rather be a Penguin Classic, but the idea of the book of unspeakable horrors as an inexpensive nonfiction publication for a broad audience seemed way funnier.)

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  • 15 years of Horrible Histories – kids’ TV so good it’s getting a Bafta – The Guardian

    The Axe Factor: A batch of wannabe beheaders battle it out to be the next royal executioner on this Tudor talent contest. “The type of noose varies according to the appointed time of the public hanging. This is the nine o’clock noose, his is the noose at 10 … ”

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