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Multi-link Monday

Posted: Monday, January 15, 2007 8:00 AM by Gael Fashingbauer Cooper
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Per a reader request, last week I rounded up a bunch of the most popular Multi-link Monday links and listed them all in one post. It kind of got lost in the shuffle, though, between Yvonne DeCarlo's death and the "For Better or For Worse" news, so don't forget to check it out if you need some more Monday time-killers. And now, some new links:

• I love this: Every week in Drawer Geeks, a group of two dozen-plus artists take on the same fictional character, from cereal mascots to childhood nightmares to Elvis (wait, you mean Elvis wasn't fictional?). Some really neat art to page through. Link from Metafilter.

• Another one of those great tweaked movie trailers: What if "Mary Poppins" were a horror movie called "Scary Mary" (video link)? Parts of that film definitely freaked me out as a kid anyway, so this makes perfect sense. (Via Hit or Miss.)

• So random: Art Garfunkel's online list of all the books he's read over the past 30 years. Don't have time to peruse them all? Here's a direct link to Art's faves.

• Yes, this link, Will It Blend?, is trying to sell you a certain brand of blender, but the videos where they try and blend things such as cassette tapes, light bulbs and golf clubs in their blender are pretty bizarre anyway. Be sure to check out the two dancing princess dolls meeting their end -- yikes.

• Wanted to upgrade this from the comments: Reader Crystal asked about a video of someone making beautiful drawings in sand via an overhead projector, and before I could even get to it, another reader, K, had provided the link. Very cool, and it makes me miss overhead projectors, which once ruled the grade school, but now feel like such a dead piece of technology.

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The coolest 3-D chalk drawings ever... http://users.skynet.be/J.Beever/pave.htm

Kim Clousing, Seattle, WA (Sent Monday, January 15, 2007 3:34 PM)

Loved that Scary Mary though it gave me goosebumps.

Bill McGovern (Sent Tuesday, January 16, 2007 2:17 AM)

Thank you soo much for upgrading that link and showing it to everybody. I hope they enjoyed it as much as me! And thanks to K for finding it. You are the best! (and so is test pattern!!)

Crystal, Lincoln, Ne (Sent Thursday, January 18, 2007 2:27 PM)



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