Before I give you the usual delicious links to chew on, I must first poke you with some shameless plugging (hey, at least I'm doing it on my own blog).
I recently changed the theme of my "comics" blog, Flippy Doodles. I moved my comics over to Comic Fury, hence I changed Flippy Doodles to something more simplistic and artsy. So it's all going to be fancy, new age, minimalist and sexy...
Or more precisely, it's going to be a place for me to post any work which inspires me, and share it with readers. I will be posting work by other artists as well as putting up anything new I make. As well as this, I'm moving most of my poems to this link too.
But do not fear! I am going to post new poems on both Flippy Doodles and this blog (do you have a fear of not being able to read my robot poetry?)
Secondly, I have finally vested a renewed interest in my reviews blog, Shortcut Reviews. You can find me updating it more often now, with random movie reviews and entertainment news.
Since I am currently pretending to be emo, I have not been to the cinema for a while, so there are not many reviews of recent movies. But I am going to do a True Blood season 4 running blog series, with a review after each episode, so stay tuned.
Lastly, I have opened up my Twitter account (i.e. the tweets are not protected anymore), so if you want to stay in touch with all three of my blogs, as well as get updates about my mental condition, then link up!
Ok, now for some nom nom nom links:
Cargo
One of my favourite art blogs, but does it float, and recently 50 Watts (previously known as A Journey Around My Skull) run on Cargo. Cargo provides the user with a web publishing CMS and community-building platform, as well as a hosting address. But what's different about this platform is that it's aim is to connect and expose designers of all sorts.
If you are serious and passionate about any design work, or have a nice blog about art/design, consider joining the network. Of course, to maintain the high quality of content, membership is by invite only, but you can contact them to submit your work and see if they let you in.
Even if you don't wish to join, just visit to check out the blogs they have in their network. It's like pornography for anyone who likes design. There are SO MANY wonderful blogs on typography, design and whatnot, that you will feel dizzy just browsing through.
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Good Magazine: Infographics
A ton of awesome infographics! For infographic maniacs!
These have to be some of the best infographic layouts I have seen; I really want to know who designs them for Good Magazine.
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One Girl and Her iPod
Found this blog just yesterday via Blogger's Blogs of Note platter. At first sight it appears to be a daily life-update blog. But at the end of each post Emily (the blog author) recommends several songs.
At first I was like 'meh!' (using nonsensical words to describe something is a human virtue); but then I checked out some of her recommendations, and I loved those songs so much. Since then, I am hooked.
50 Watts
I had once linked to A Journey Around My Skull, a blog by book cover art enthusiast Will Schofield. Well, now he has moved to a new location.
I'm going to miss the old haunt, but I also love his new layout and everything. Check it out - full of lovely book covers and all sorts of other inspirational art work.
Groovy Post: How to Delete Your Facebook Account
I know this seems rather random in a Links Ahoy! but I remember once I was trying to delete my Facebook account and how incredibly difficult Facebook made it for me, so I just wanted to put this out there.
You see, back in the good ol' days (circa 2006) you could not delete your Facebook account at all. Well sort of - you had to email their customer service, and even if they did delete it, all your data would remain on their server. So in order to delete your account fully, you had to remove every single bit of data from your profile (i.e. delete all wall posts, remove all your friends, etc). I got so sick of it that I threatened to sue them (I was a teenager, withering in pools of hyperbole in my prime).
Anyways, they have come a long way since then. So if you are someone out there looking to delete their Facebook account, use this tutorial. This is one of the most straightforward ones I have come across.
The Guardian: How to Spot a Psychopath
A wonderful article by Jon Ronson, on his journey from Broadmoor psychiatric hospital to corporate boardrooms, to find out what exactly is a psychopath. I am worried about the fact that Ronson is not at all a trained professional in the area, so treat some of his claims with a pinch of salt.
But it is a rather nice article, with most of it consisting of discussing a patient who got into the psychiatric hospital by "pretending" to be a psychopath. And I never considered the idea of economic psychopaths either...
Allen Institute for Brain Science: Atlas of the Brain
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Scientists funded by Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen have developed a $55 million computerized atlas of the human brain, offering the first interactive research guide to the anatomy and genes that form the brain. The online atlas offers researchers a new tool to understand where and how genes are at work in the brain.
It's a neat database, although it is way beyond anything that I can understand. But I am sure there are people who would find such a large database very interesting. So far, I'm only clicking on random links, like a monkey with a typewriter.
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