More links with little comment: Seventeen magazine, XKCD, the Museum of Natural History, ghosts and oddball museums

More good stuff that speaks for itself:

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  When We Were "Seventeen": A History In 47 Covers: Seventeen Magazine was probably never for anyone 17-years old, but it is nonetheless a time capsule of teenage girldom. Some of it is simply quaint, as in the passing of time. Other parts of it are, well, places we're glad we're not anymore. The worst of it is, places we think we shouldn't be anymore, and still are.
  
  
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  Who is this guy with all his ducks in a row? Or, actually, a column? Find out by reading A Conversation With Randall Munroe, the Creator of XKCD. 'Nuff said.
  
  
• This is pretty cool, with a couple of videos. Who doesn't love these dioramas? We all grew up with them. How the American Museum of Natural History is Restoring its Dioramas
  
• Tor has put together a humongous list of favorite ghosts. It includes both Beetlejuice and Banquo, so it's pretty agnostic. Ghosts From A to Z.
  
• 9 of the World’s Weirdest Museums After all, who doesn't want to see a size 37 shoe worn by the world's tallest man, or the world's longest tapeworm?
  
  
  
  
  
  

More links with little comment: Garbo, snake venom wine, the really original Disneyland, how to use the telephone, Flash fights

More good stuff that speaks for itself:

• Scandals of Classic Hollywood: The Exquisite Garbo It amazes me how dead old movies are to most people. Then again, most old things are dead to most people, and it's their loss. As soon as someone can provide for me a link between new and good, I'll change my tune. Anyhow, Garbo is Garbo, and at least film fans will enjoy this one.
  
  
• If you are not a fan of snakes, don't look at this: Asian snake venom wine (It’s a real thing).
  
  
• The original concept map for Disneyland, blown up so that you can load it into a separate tab and practically walk around in it! Herb Ryman's Disneyland Map Artwork
  
  
• Once upon a time, there were no telephones. Then there were. Here's the online user guide: How to Use the Telephone, 1917
  
  
• Caught this one on BoingBoing. My jaw is still hanging open:
  
  
  
  
  
  

More links with little comment

More good stuff that speaks for itself:

• When words du jour are added to the dictionary, even in the computer age, that usually means that they are words d'hier. 35 Modern Words Recently Added to the Dictionary contains a few ringers (Po-Po? Totes?) but most of them look like they're in for a fairly decent run. It's nice to see the OED (or, I guess, the ODO) is trying to keep up.
  
  
• Need a blog of pictures of Goths Up Trees? We've got that.
  
  
• I had no idea this existed. I can't vouch for the quality, having not watched it yet. But I thought I'd pass it along. Aldous Huxley’s Brave New World (Full 1980 BBC Adaptation)
  
  
• There are things in the HP universe that don't make sense? 10 Unsolved Mysteries of the 'Harry Potter' Universe
  
  
• These are real, and will give you nightmares. Scary Seas: 21 Terrifying Deep Ocean Creatures.
  
  

Friday's final links

Stuff I couldn't add anything to:

• PARISIAN SHOP WINDOWS BY EUGENE ATGET, 1900-1926 These photos are amazingly evocative. It's Paris as you think it should be.
  
  
• Big in Japan (and elsewhere): 29 American cultural entities that found greater popularity overseas We all know about Jerry Lewis, but still, this enlightens. Plus, who knew about Donald Duck > Mickey Mouse in Scandinavia?
  
  
• Funny People: Steve Heinrich, You Don’t Know Jack head writer Oh, the hours I spent playing YKDJ. Here's the backstory (of the game, not my lost playing hours).
  
  
• A History of Rock ‘n’ Roll in 100 Riffs This went pretty much everywhere, but still, you may have missed it. I suggest closing your eyes and seeing if you can identify them. A good test of rock credentials.
  

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He's not making this up: The official MLA word on citing tweets!

How Do You Cite a Tweet in an Academic Paper?

And no, it's not April 1: MLA link.

Sixes and sevens

First of all, I've wanted to start a commentary on the Times bestseller list for a while. Done: http://grinwouts.blogspot.com/2012/03/sunday-survey.html (Forgive shameless self-promotion, but it's the only kind I've got.)

I spent yesterday wondering what I'm doing with my life. This comes of not being in a tabroom on a Saturday. I was at sixes and sevens, stumbling around the chez in a haze, wondering what to do next. I always find the transition to (from?) normality in the Spring difficult. To wit, I have exactly two more gigs lined up: the CatNats qualifier (NYC on St Paddy's day, no less) and the State finals. Then I pack it in, take the printer out of the car and replace it with the golf clubs, and that's that. Then again, it was nice and warm yesterday, and I did stop my stumbling around long enough to take a little walk in the sun. Maybe the off-season won't be so bad...

Render unto debate, etc.

I gave up and created a new aggregation blog called Grinwout's. I'm back to obsessively poring over RSS feeds and reading web pages and trying to find the good stuff. None of it has to do with debate, though. But is that all you ever think about, you spalpeen? Why don't you broaden your horizons a little bit, before it's too late? Let me be the one to break it to you: It's not all just PICs and RVIs and Snooki's pregnancy!

Jeesh! Go to Grinwout's.

(And, well, maybe it is all about Snooki's pregnancy, but we can pretend, can't we?)

For those of us who believe in the power of education

And the powerless of a lack thereof: A 13-Year-Old's Slavery Analogy Raises Some Uncomfortable Truths in School

(Some links are more debate community than at large, ergo here rather than at Grinwout's.)

Lingering vs loitering

Loitering is a crime?

Privacy

I maintain it's because adults are more inclined to assume that it doesn't matter, which is pretty dumb...

Surprise! Teens Care More About Online Privacy Than You Think/