links for 2009-10-28

• HOUSE: Gila Film Products : Residential Window Film : Heat : Platinum
  An old bookmark from my old computer, saved in case I decide to buy this stuff. Reflecting 72% of summer heat sounds good, though nothing ever lives up to its promises. But you get a tax credit if you buy this stuff this year…
  (tags: house hardware Gila Film windowFilms windows films heat)
• PICTURES: Celebrity Yearbook Photos – a set on Flickr
  It's amazing how some people who are hot now were not hot then — like Mariah Carey or Jennifer Lopez or Anna Nicole Smith. Only a few are hotter than they are now — Gwen Stefani, who I think has an awful look nowadays.

  Rachel McAdams has played so many high schoolers, yet now I can finally see what she REALLY looked like while in high school [not that different, actually].

  And some people always had it. Dita Von Teese as a blonde?!?! Heather Graham & Pamela Anderson as a brunette?

  Angelina Jolie used to be much plainer looking…

  (tags: media pictures celebrities yearbooks yearbookPictures)
• COMEDY: Ryan Dunlavey: Comic strip mashups
  Some of these are brilliant!
  (tags: comedy pictures comicStrips comics mashups Peanuts CharlieBrown X-Men CharlesXavier LordOfTheRings OrlandoBloom BloomCounty Deadman FamilyCircus StarWars ThePhantomMenace DennisTheMenace Dr.Doom TheFarSide FarSide Garfield He-Man Calvin&Hobbes Spider-Man KravenTheHunter Nancy SinCity LittleNemo BaronZemo SpyVs.Spy AlienVs.Predator Alien Predator PrinceValiant from2Beans)
• COPYRIGHT/CENSORSHIP: EFF Launches "Takedown Hall of Shame"
  Good idea. Highlight the bullshit censorship that is accomplished by hiding behind the guise of "copyright" and "protecting artists".
  (tags: politics copyright censorship corporations intellectualProperty bullshit takedowns EEF NPR WarnerMusicGroup Warner YouTube NoationalOrganizationForMarriage DeBeers MichaelSavage Diebold RalphLauren PhotoshopDisasters NBC BarackObama articles)
• VIRGINIA TECH: Virginia Tech’s “Man Castle”: Now Less Manly – City Desk – Washington City Paper
  What the fuck?!?! Prithcard Hall is co-ed now? That just seems so wrong. I wonder if there are girls living in 1044, where I used to live. If so, I pity them.

  Glad to see the vending machine out the top-floor window rumour is still going, but nobody remembers The Phantom Shitter, or even Hornboy? "I'm gonna miss you, hornboy."

  Or the time we blasted the Scooby Doo theme into the pit? Or the time Arlo broke my finger in the pit during padded swordfighting? (I SAID don't swing it like a baseball bat! Can't play guitar as well now.) Or the time we set the local fire alarm off right outside the most prickish R.A.'s door, while he slept? And my friend Diane dropped her ID at the scene, but somehow we didn't get in trouble. (Whatever happened to Diane?) Or the trash bags full of water dropped on outside smokers? ARGH! WE'LL GET YOUUUUU!!!

  I know my graffiti was still there 10 yrs later, when we visited for Vicky's wedding. But apparently much has changed. GIRLS!! In PRITCHARD!!

  (tags: VirginiaTech Blacksburg college dorms Pritchard PrtichardHall co-ed CityPaper news articles fromDanC)
• LISTS: 6 Creepy Urban Legends That Happen To Be True
  Cracked.com sure has entertaining lists…
  (tags: cracked.com lists UrbanLegends true deaths elevators cellPhones phones phoneCalls Saw bombs bankRobbers suicides shrunkenHeads heads bodyFarms bodies scary creepy)