Wednesday, September 26, 2012

Miss Cellania's Links

When The World Series Opened on Yom Kippur.

How Collecting Opium Antiques Turned Me Into an Opium Addict.

After Leo Traynor opened a Twitter account, he became the victim of a vicious troll, who even send him packages in the mail. Later he confronted the troll in this surprising story.  (via Boing Boing)

The Happiest Man on Death Row. (via Metafilter)

The 23 Most Important Lessons Learned During Your Childhood. Illustrated with images from TV, which is where they are learned.

Here's a list of The 50 Greatest Films You’ll Only Watch Once. I really hate to admit how many times I've seen Gone With The Wind.

The Crumbling Remains of Tuscany's Creepy Abandoned Mental Asylum. The perfect spooky place to fuel your imagination and/or nightmares.

Rejected bait: 17 recent Oscar-ready films that walked away empty-handed. That's what you get when you craft a film for the Academy instead of the audience.

Why Women Should Stop Trying to Be Perfect. Debora Spar argues that we'll never be able to have it all, so we may as well stop beating ourselves to death over it.

Places Not On Your Freshman Orientation Tour. The secret spots of many campuses are handed down by word of mouth.

1 comment:

Tom said...

Happy Birthday to you! I know it isn't until tomorrow, but I wanted to be the first to wish it to you.

I hope your birthday is as good to you as you have always been to us Interneters. I've always enjoyed your posts.