It’s Friday the 7th of October, and this is Berg Friday Links.
The recommended soundtrack for this edition of Friday Links is Keygen Jukebox, provided by Andy, and my favourite link of the week.
Alex provided us with this link to a 1971 Nintendo product.
We got excited enough about this new Roland 3D hobby mill that we started talking about the games consoles we used when we were kids.
There’s been a bit of interest in Point Of View videos on the list, bringing up these examples: The Stampede by Biting Elbows, Cinnamon Chasers – Luv Deluxe, Prodigy – Smack My Bitch Up (NSFW) and the game Mirror’s Edge.
We also had a mini discussion on the greater debate around what now seems to have been coined wackaging. Denise, the person I would most trust on this issue, gave us this:
Main thing is that writing in that style and doing it well isn’t easy. And it’s not quick. It doesn’t just trip off the tongue, its not like writing an email to your mates. Get it right, and people like it. Get it wrong and it’s really offensive. It’s also very difficult to tell people how to get it right. Christopher Hitchens explains it better:
To my writing classes I used later to open by saying that anybody who could talk could also write. Having cheered them up with this easy-to-grasp ladder, I then replaced it with a huge and loathsome snake: “How many people in this class, would you say, can talk? I mean really talk?” That had its duly woeful effect.
Alex provided us with this animated gif:
And finally, from Denise via She Went of Her Own Accord, is New Old Jokes Home:
My robot wife has gone to the Carribbean.
Jamaica?
No, she came ready-manufactured.
Have a good weekend.