Mega Weekly Links 8.6.10

6 August 2010 | No comments yet

As an added incentive to get everyone relinking to the new domain, I’ve prepared an extra-large version of my usual weekly links. Enjoy a double-rainbow sized helping of Internet oddities!

1. “You got your Firefly in my Star Trek!” Photo above says it all.

2. A hotel marketed specifically toward train otaku. That’s right, a huge model train set in every room.

3. Magic: The Gathering for Inception fans. I love how true to the game these are!

4. A house made totally out of books.

5. Ever have a moment where you’re having a great time and you think, “This would be an awesome tweet”? You’re not alone.

Back in the 1950s, the sociologist Erving Goffman famously argued that all of life is performance: we act out a role in every interaction, adapting it based on the nature of the relationship or context at hand. Twitter has extended that metaphor to include aspects of our experience that used to be considered off-set: eating pizza in bed, reading a book in the tub, thinking a thought anywhere, flossing.

6. For the desperate: What the F*ck is my Social Media Strategy?

7. Ready for an upgrade? Here’s the top 10 free WordPress 3.0 ready themes. (via Nubby Twiglet.)

8. Videogame spoofs of the famous British WWII slogan (and hipster favorite) “Keep Calm and Carry On” poster. (via The Daily What.)

9. Flowing Data‘s Nathan Yau did an amazing infographic on Firefox:

Once every blue moon I like to freelance as a short break from school work, and a few months back I got an email from Mozilla that basically said, “Hey we’ve got a lot of data. Do you want to do something with it?” Luckily, the scheduling worked out, and this was the result.

10. If you missed the Anime Journalism panel at Otakon (like I did), you can still watch it online.

11. I always knew Maryland was the geekiest state! First they make jousting the state sport, now they’re naming September 21st Sid Meier Civilization Day.

12. And last: How do you really feel about Badminton?