http://www.metafilter.com/86871/TatTube

New technology might let you to implant LED tattoos which would turn your skin into a screen.

http://www.smartbitchestrashybooks.com/index.php/site/links-with-yay-nay-and-something-else-entirely/

Yay!

From Kristan Higgins: Happy Ever After cliches from movies. My hair is curly and wild when I’m in love! You have a secret cabin (Yes, what is UP with the secret cabin hidden in the woods as a shorthand for secret sensitivity [he likes trees!] and need for isolation [poor lonly man]?)! This cracked me up.

More Yay!

From Rhea, a link to Sarah Rees Brennan, YA Author, who does a summary of the kickass heroines she’s found in romance of late:

Goddess of the Hunt by Tessa Dare

LUCY: Hello Jeremy here I am at your door!
JEREMY: What are you doing here, Lucy?
LUCY: BRINGING THE MACK!
JEREMY: As a gentleman in times of yore at a respectable household inhabited only my best friend and his little sister, I was not expecting the mack.
LUCY: Okay, did the mack work? Because I’m practising for another dude, so any tips are welcome, over here.
JEREMY: Lucy please! I may swoon.
LUCY: Oooooh, so the mack worked really well?

While that particular book didn’t work for me, the opening scene is a hell of a power punch, and I am going to use “BRINGING THE MACK” at every opportunity.

Nay!

In other news: the Inkwell Bookstore, located in Cape Cod, Massachusetts, is reporting the news that Harlequin has launched self pub Harlequin Horizons with the following statement:

Having grown bored with simply warping the romantic fantasy worlds of their reality-deprived readership, Harlequin has teamed up with print-on-demand publisher Author Solutions to eff with their readers’ writing fantasies as well.

O RLY? I hate when my romantic fantasy world is warped by bookstores who denigrate the readers of one of the most profitable genres of the bookselling industry.

Thanks to Carolyn for the heads up.

Yay and Nay and Something Else Entirely!

Comics Alliance offers up the worst sex scene in comics, from a masterpiece of WTFery called “Rawbone” which “is entirely about pirates raping each other until they die.”

The descriptions and dialogue (NSFWOMGWTFHELP) are so bad, you think it’s a joke. But the parodies at the end are even better. You throbbing fish, you. Rwor.

So here’s my question: in the battle between Your vagina is haunted and heave that harpoon hard home, which wins the title for Worst Goddam Thing Ever?

 

http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/ICanHasCheezburger/~3/Mf4tWC9TPss/

http://icanhascheezburger.com/?p=210610

http://www.cartoonlabs.com/comics/index.php?date=2009-11-21&show=sinfest

Sinfest
Tatsuya Ishida

Signal boosting from torrain:

There's a sad story in from the Ottawa Humane Society.

100 Huskies rescued, 30 of which are pregnant. The dogs are unvaccinated and the females need to go to home immediately so they can give birth in safe conditions.

The dogs need homes immediately, and the Humane Society isn't a no-kill shelter.


Even if you can't take the dogs, please engage in signal boosting and forward the cbc article to a few friends with houses who might have the time to help.

http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/DilbertDailyStrip/~3/r0DNV46zQjE/

http://dilbert.com/strips/comic/2009-11-21/

hey

who keeps looking at http://bellacrow.livejournal.com/tag/poetry?

I keep getting multiple hits from someone in NY.

http://www.metafilter.com/86870/The-amazingly-exciting-intersection-of-construction-materials-and-bacteria

Self-healing bio-concrete.

http://www.metafilter.com/86869/Vanish

Vanish. Writer Evan Ratliff finds out how easy (or hard) it is to disappear with a $5000 bounty on his head.

Happy Birthday mynxii!

http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/boingboing/iBag/~3/5vI8SFsungo/crucifix-multi-screw.html

Designer Michiel Cornelissen laser-sintered stainless-steel crucifix has screwdriver bits cut into each tip, turning it into a screwdriver that repels vampires.

a bit cross (via Make)

http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/boingboing/iBag/~3/e_nZ_Q0yc7w/lego-hole-punch-for.html

Muji's going to start selling hole-punches that knock out patterns that can be threaded between two Lego bricks. They go on sale in a week, and open up many possibilities for crafty Lego extensions.

LEGO for MUJI Paper and Block Sets (via Make)

http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/uclick/calvinandhobbes/~3/h5Ewu6akJ7Q/472971

Calvin and Hobbes for Saturday, November 21, 2009

http://www.metafilter.com/86868/Tell-me-of-your-homeworld-Usul

Chris Foss concept art for Dune, with bonus Nostromo. The images were produced for Alejandro Jodorowsky's 1974 attempt at filming the story, with other artists involved including Moebius and HR Giger. Though the project failed Jodorowsky collaborated further with Moebius to lay the groundwork for his own Dune-like comicbook universe (and a trailer for an animated version of it was even created). More visions of Arrakis can be seen on this page of Dune cover artwork through the ages, with bonus midi Toto.

http://www.metafilter.com/86867/The-Passions-of-the-Claus

I'm not "jolly". I'm in the most high-risk group for gastroesophageal reflux disease. For some, Christmas starts a little too early each year.

I don't believe we've had a strip that reminds us that Lynn sees playing in autumn leaves as something that should be declared a capital offence yet this year; that means we're probably about to.

I'm close; it's Lynn whining about how the New Media (in the form of a mildly silly and gross video game) are corrupting our children, destroying our morals and bruising fruit.

http://www.metafilter.com/86866/One-powerful-mans-nothing-is-a-hundred-mens-lives

Lexington's Mayor, Jim Newberry, bristled at critical questions about The Dame block, "Nothing of consequence ever happened on that block." Richie Wireman begs to differ.
Wireman spent 4 months documenting the final stages of the long and controversial demise of one city block full of established local businesses to make way for a dubiously financed high-rise development.

While no longer a gaping eyesore, today, the project is not exactly as advertised.

http://www.metafilter.com/86865/You-got-cooking-in-my-typography

You got typography in my cooking.

http://www.metafilter.com/86864/Too-fat-to-pass

25 students at Lincoln University may not graduate, because they failed -- to lose weight. The students are members of "the first graduating class required to either have a BMI below 30 or to take 'Fitness for Life,' a one semester class that mixes exercise, nutritional instruction and discussion of the risks of obesity" in order to graduate from Lincoln.
In a similar vein, you may remember last year's piece of stunt legislation that would have banned fat people from eating in Mississippi restaurants. The bill did not pass into law.

The Yale University Rudd Center for Food Policy and Obesity conducts research on weight bias, and has found that bias against fat people is prevalent in employment, health care settings, interpersonal relationships, media, and education. Other scholars have recently suggested that the stigma attached to body size may contribute to diseases thought to be caused by obesity.