Miscellanea

Drawn! links to the inside jokes of Looney Tunes (link). I have to again give Joel Spolsky credit for being on a roll this week; this time with his Architecture Astronauts, amen. In this week's New Yorker, a piece on evo devo. An interesting design trends link via Mr. Kottke. Paul Graham's chronicling of his summer ventures includes links to some of the startups he funded; e.g., Kiko, an Ajax calendar startup. Not too long ago, pixelsurgeon quite favorably reviewed Echo & the Bunnymen's Siberia. I am frustrated by the fact that it seems to be feast or famine when it comes to my movie wish list; currently, the list is overlowing with Capote (a Metacritic 90), Good Night & Good Luck, Corpse Bride, Wallace & Gromit, MirrorMask, Proof and that's not really even delving into the indie list. Fark and then Boing Boing linked a great top 100 toys of the 70s and 80s list; Stretch Armstrong, Slime, Battling Tops, Merlin... "that's what it is, that's what it is..."