coraa | Sunday Linkspam

Yay for something to do in the airport! Also, yay for SeaTac getting free wireless.

This one has a lot of videos. Fortunately, they are all funny videos.

Via dancinghorse: The original Trojan Horse warning
Made me laugh, anyway.

The League of Extraordinary Dancers (site includes video)
Saw these dancers as an interlude in So You Think You Can Dance?, and

morganlf and

bellwethr and I agreed that it was excellent. Then I found the website. Go, look!

A trifecta of Slacktivist posts: Pulling a Lieberman, Don't Know Much About History, and The Fatuous Foolishness of the Manhattan Declaration
As always, Fred Clark takes on an infuriating subject with intelligence, compassion and graciousness, without losing sight of what about it is infuriating. Also, he's very funny. One of many favorite quotes:

How do you make homophobia even more wrong-headed and harmful? By trying to use homophobia to suppress action against climate change. Colson stands by his "principles" come Hell or high water because, apparently, Hell and high water are his principles.

Medieval Material Culture Blog: The oldest what?
A skewering of a single, particularly obtuse news headline (seriously, two minutes of research on Wikipedia would have disproved it), but really I'm linking to it because it's about medieval cooking and I cannot get enough of medieval cooking. I really can't.

Color Scheme Designer
A fun tool for developing harmonious color schemes, even for a graphically impaired person like me.

From Darths and Droids: Grappling rules
Darths and Droids is worth reading in general -- it's the Star Wars prequel trilogy, written as if it was an RPG campaign; it's very good and funny and interesting even if (like me) you are not exactly a fan of the prequel trilogy. (It includes the famous, and, in context, completely appropriate line, "Jar Jar, you're a genius!") Anyway, this particular comic isn't skewering Star Wars per se, it's skewering grappling rules in most RPGs, and if you've played an RPG, you may find it as funny as I did.

From Cracked: A History Channel Documentary from the Future: Beatles 3000 (video, worksafe)
John, Paul, Greg and Scottie! I wish I could say that this was unfair, but after watching "The Dead Sea Scrolls: Did They Predict 9/11?????", I can't say it is. It's hilarious, though.

Via a great many people: If They Had Facebook in Star Wars
I laughed so hard.

The Muppet Ode to Joy (video, worksafe)
The seasonal coda to last week's Bohemian Rhapsody. Not quite as over-the-top impressive, but it made me smile, and smile, and smile.

Via jmpava: Automatic Mario: Don't Stop Me Now
Automatic Mario is, apparently, a meme by which people create famous pieces of music using Mario sound effects. This is THE ULTIMATE AUTOMATIC MARIO.

Via Skin Horse: Hot Goblin Sex and Samus Arun
Skin Horse is worth reading, too -- it's about the shadow government team responsible for the well-being of sentient nonhumans (sort of like the welfare branch of the X-Files), staffed by a fashion-conscious ex-military transvestite psychologist, a sentient Canadian dog designed to conquer America (politely, of course), and a cheerfully destructive patchwork zombie. But these two comics should give you a good idea whether you'd like it or not. ;)

jimhines: Linconl U's Big Fat Fail

If you want to add a class on lifestyle and healthy eating, that’s one thing. Having seen what people pay for diets and weight loss programs, the class should fill up fast. But to force everyone with a BMI of 30 to take your class, or else they can’t graduate? Sorry, Lincoln. Your bigotry and ignorance are showing.