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These are my delicious links for August 10th:

• Horror – Let me tell you what Horror is…

These are my delicious links for July 29th through July 31st:

• Feral Homes – James Griffioen has a haunting collection of photos of homes and buildings being overtaken by vegetation in Detroit. I can't imagine walking the streets with these buildings, must be surreal.
• Photos of Chicago from the top of a Crane. – Ken Derry, crane operator for McHugh, has taken some amazing pictures of the Trump Tower during its construction.
• 202 Star Wars T-Shirts – A grand list of 202 Star Wars Shirts. Not ranked, just a missive listing.
• I'm pretty sure I stopped growing up in my teens and have been faking ever since. – One of the best XKCD's I've seen in a while.

These are my delicious links for May 5th through May 6th:

• Night Run – The camera was fastened to an outside rail and set to take a photo every six seconds. Quicktime then assembled the photos into a .mov file that plays back at 12 frames per second. So, one minute of movie time represents 72 minutes of trip time on the channel. The first half begins just below the Port of Houston Authority Turning Basin (the very end of the channel) and continues down to Green's Bayou. The second half takes us from there to Morgan's Point at the head of Galveston Bay.
• Best Artwork of Superheroes – Nice collection of artwork from a ton of different artists.
• Nyle "Let The Beat Build" on Vimeo – What I find fantastic about this video is that is was shot with one take. That's BOTH the video AND audio.

These are my delicious links for March 11th through March 12th:

• "I Look Straight into Linus' Weasel Eyes…" – Charlie Brown, as done by Frank Miller. brilliant.
• Ski Dump Bathroom. – Now THATS a bathroom. And of course when we're talking about wacky bathrooms, we're talking about one nation, right? Right. A Japanese coffee company, Goeorgia Max Coffee, modified the bathrooms of ski areas around Japan to promote their coffee energy drinks. This is definitely a high-octane bathroom.
• edith zimmerman plays with her food. – Edith has some fantastic photos of her food sculptures. The mantis and tangerine are really good.
• Approximate Conversion from Points to Pixels – I was being lazy this morning, and needed a quick way to convert some points into the appropriate EM size. Viola'. This chart helps out immensely.
• New York Architecture Images- black and white new york – Amazing collection of images of early New York. From 1894 on, just a real solid trip down history.
• 100 Free Useful Applications for Mac, Part I | Tools – A nice list, maybe a bit over-the-top, of useful Mac Tools. Some are obvious (Quicksilver, etc,) but there are some hidden gems in there.
• Floorplans of Sit-Com Houses. – By the same guy that brought us the Trilogy Meter, we are treated with another brilliant piece of charting and infographics. This time he's laid out, painstakingly I might add, the floor plans of many sit-com houses.
• Vintage air raid defense posters – In 1938, the Japanese Red Cross worked with government authorities to create a series of posters to teach the public about the new Anti-Aircraft Defense Law, which was enacted in seeming anticipation of air strikes following the outbreak of the Japan-China War (1937-1945). Among other things, the new law required citizens to take protective measures against gas attacks and prepare for disinfection, evacuation and relief.

  These AWESOME posters are the result.

These are my delicious links for February 4th:

• Blambot Comic Fonts and Lettering – Comic book lettering has some grammatical and aesthetic traditions that are quite unique. What follows is a list that every letterer eventually commits to his/her own mental reference file.

These are my delicious links for November 24th:

• Changing the wallpapers shown in the Display Properties control panel. – Is there a way or program to point the Display Properties -> Desktop tab to another folder?

  Yes. Yes there is. A small regedit hack, and you're good.

• The Top Comic Book Battles. – The Top 25 Comic Book Battles, as voted on by the readers of Comic Book Resources. This list is just brilliant.

These are my delicious links for November 12th:

• New York City Map of SuperHeroes – A great map drawn up by a fan of where the superheros live and work.

These are my delicious links for September 30th:

• About Us Information on Websites (Jakob Nielsen's Alertbox) – Representing a company or organization on the Internet is one of a website's most important jobs. Effectively explaining the company's purpose and what it stands for provides essential support for all other website goals.

  Unfortunately, while most sites offer an About Us section, they often do a poor job of communicating the crucial information it should contain. Jakob now helps us figure out what that information should be.

• The Milky Way Galaxy, as seen from the False Kiva in the Canyonlands National Park. –
• Cool collection of Wolverine Art. – Just a nice little collection of cool Wolverine pictures and art. I like the Dinosaur the best.

John Seavey is undertaking a pretty massive project.  He’s been reading through Marvel’s Essentials and DC’s Showcase Presents reprints, and find the underlying story and themes in each title, what he’s calling the storytelling engine.

Each series has these elements, and each series evolves over time as different writers take a hand at the character.  What type of elements?  Starring character, recurring cast, supporting cast, locations, settings, antagonists, tone and others.

Really, it’s a fun read through some of your favorite comic books.  The idea of tracking the meta-elements of what basically started as cheap pulp fiction is a pretty neat idea.  Very meta. Below is a list of links I just shamelessly ripped off of this mefi post.

Adam Strange
Ant-Man
Aquaman
Batman
Brave and the Bold
Captain America
Challengers of the Unknown
Classic X-Men
Conan
Daredevil
Dazzler
Doctor Strange
Flash
Ghost Rider
Godzilla
Green Arrow
Green Lantern
Hawkman
House of Mystery
Howard the Duck
Hulk
Iron Man
Jonah Hex
Killraven
Man-Thing
Martian Manhunter
Marvel Horror
Marvel Saga
Marvel Super Villain Team-Up
Marvel Team-Up
Marvel Two In One
Ms. Marvel
Nova
Official Handbook of the Marvel Universe
Phantom Stranger
Power Man and Iron Fist
Punisher
Savage Dragon
She-Hulk
Silver Surfer
Spider-Man (Part One) (Part Two) (Part Three)
Spider-Woman
Supergirl
Superman Family
Superman
Teen Titans
The Atom
The Avengers
The Defenders
The Elongated Man
The Fantastic Four
The Haunted Tank
Thor
Tomb of Dracula
Uncanny X-Men (Part One) (Part Two)
Werewolf By Night
Wolverine
Wonder Woman
World’s Finest
X-Factor