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

Kirabug.com: destroying your teen years one video at a time.

Also, awesome simple desktops.

Edited to add: This one won a Webby.

One of the side-effects of doing most of my web surfing from mobile devices is that I don’t spend a lot of time watching videos. On the other hand, when I do, and I want to share them, it’s a real pain in the ass to copy the embed code into WordPress on the phone.

Which leads us to this — a day where I post a whole pile of videos.

Let’s start with a kitten and a mirror:

AT-AT Day Afternoon makes us see these gentle giants as mere puppies.

Now a bit to freak you out — here’s a giant spider crab molting. All I can think is that this thing must have one heck of a headache right before it crawls out of that shell.

Animal the Muppet has a staring contest with one of the band members from OK Go

Via Fark (again), here’s how to pronounce the volcano: