kirabug’s idea files

First, do not start playing Fallen London on Echo Bazaar. It’s a deliciously dark choose-your-own-adventure-style text adventure set in a steampunky Neverwhere-like underground London (which is quite a different thing than the London Underground).

You don’t want to play, because it’s weird and warped and fun and addictive and you only get 70 turns a day. You most certainly don’t want to look for me (@kirabug), because then you’d also be following me on Twitter and I post weird stuff and complain all day.

I’ll see you there.

Second, some neat links:

• Twitter FailOhmu (which probably makes more sense if you’ve seen Nausicaa of the Valley of the Wind)
• The art of cause and effect in a solitary comic panel via Scott McCloud
• A tale of two focal points by Aaron Diaz, also via Scott McCloud

Third, here are some weird videos.

Japanese tea advertisement:

100 Greatest Movie Insults of all time WARNING: NSFW

cows & cows & cows

• Retouched pageant photos are creeeeeeeeepy.
• A nifty (somewhat violent) paper folding video pointed out by Scott McCloud
• Move your mouse, watch the kitty move, watch your productivity grind to a halt.
• Can you tell Helvetica from Arial?

Two musicians, one guitar:

Here’s another roundup of weird shit brought to you by the Internet.

• Stilettos for babies
• Wanna get the terrors some deer antlers but haven’t gotten around to it yet.
• A wedding poem by Neil Gaiman
• A nifty wool wedding gown
• Strongbad’s take on designing webpages
• And while you’re at it, The Onion’s take on opting out of Google.
• The Mythbusters panels at ComicCon
• iPhone soap
• Really sad chart that depresses the hell out of me

Dave Letterman’s best top 10 list:

• Time waster of the week: emails from crazy people
• Van Halen’s “No Brown M&M’s” contract rider requirement explained.
• If websites were people

Oh, and finally, this keeps cracking me up on TV:

I think Twitter’s just randomly redisplaying my favorites now, so that ought to hold you for a while.

Via Scott McCloud on Twitter (and numerous others before him, by the looks of things) Can Do – And the Pursuit of Happiness Blog – NYTimes.com. An interesting comic (of sorts, the Times calls it an illustrated blog), in this particular case about Benjamin Franklin. The rest of the entries post once a month but I haven’t had a chance to read them yet. Worth checking out