Link roundup

1. Abandoned Chinese Disneyworld.

2. If you want to feel nauseous about the economy...

3. Great article about the search for rare earth elements in Alaska (add some super-smart bears and you have a Michael Crichton novel). A taste:

Dotson explained how he’d joined the first landing party as a surveyor to stake the mineral claims on Bokan in 1955. One of the geologists, Don Ross, of the Ross-Adams mine, had found the deposit by dangling a radiation detector outside the window of a tiny Piper Cub propeller plane while he skimmed the peaks of Prince of Wales Island.

4. And from the same issue of Businessweek, read about Amy Jo Martin, the woman behind Shaq's (and other athletes) success on Twitter:

At one point, in October of last year, 9 of the 10 trending topics on Twitter were related to her clients. The two-year-old company does in the “mid-seven figures” in annual billings, which are up 525 percent in 2011. Martin has done so well with teams and athletes that Digital Royalty picked up companies such as DoubleTree and Discount Tire Centers; non-sport clients now make up 70 percent of the business. She employs 15 people (mostly young, mostly women, mostly pretty) and is looking to hire at least five more.

Monsters and more by Joey Ellis

Some gems by Joey Ellis. First, some of the monster doodles he has for sale ($10 each plus shipping):






Spider-Man band:





Part of a large collection of Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtle drawings:








A small sampling from a large collection of Twitter icons:







*Buy Krang toys at eBay.

Escape before you tweet

Escape before you Tweet via.

The New Yorker and New York magazine

Cover to the current issue of The New Yorker.


Cover of the current issue of New York. Via these fine sites.

Link roundup

1. The original Twitter logo was grotesque.

2. Octopus kites.

3. What a musician makes selling music at various sites.

4. Mexican Coke loses to American Coke in taste test.

Social networking propaganda posters

Celebrate your love of Twitter, Google, and Facebook with these social networking propaganda posters on sale at Etsy. Via.

*Buy propaganda posters at eBay.

Link roundup

1. Gawker on Newt Gingrich's 1.3 million Twitter followers:

About 80 percent of those accountsare inactive or are dummy accounts created by various "follow agencies," another 10 percent are real people who are part of a network of folks who follow others back and are paying for followers themselves (Newt's profile just happens to be a part of these networks because he uses them, although he doesn't follow back), and the remaining 10 percent may, in fact, be real, sentient people who happen to like Newt Gingrich.

2. NBC is claiming that its new show The Playboy Club is about female empowerment.

3. A little less corporate-funded propaganda in schools:

In response to pressure from parents, educators and grassroots advocates, Scholastic Inc. will drastically limit its practice of partnering with corporations to produce classroom material, the company announced last week.

The publisher had been under fire since May, when it was forced to stop distributing a fourth-grade curriculum called “The United States of Energy” that had been paid for by the coal industry and distributed to classrooms across the country.

Via.

Link roundup

1. It's not so much the sexting, but the shocking arrogance in who the congressman was following on Twitter that's surprising. I bet any enterprising journalist could have a field day looking at who star athletes follow on Twitter.

2. I love the Ned Stark is stupid meme. Seems like I've been waiting for that feeling to become popularized for years and years.

3. It's all about knowing which rules you can get away with breaking (and be willing to break).

Google before you Tweet

Google before you Tweet by Joe Newton. Via.

Link roundup

1. Monstrous Twitter icon.

2. New sculptures by J.Shea.

3. Animated gif of a cat telling a dog a joke.

Adidas Twitter Superstars

Adidas Twitter Superstars by Gerry Mckay. Via.

*Buy Adidas at Amazon.

Vintage Twitter in a box

JMW Kommunikation shows that Post-It Notes are the original Twitter. The packages were passed out Disruptive Code, a conference for web developers in Stockholm, during autumn 2010. Via.

*Buy vintage phones at eBay.

Lego Batman, Scott Pilgrim, and more

Animated-style Batman, Scott Pilgrim, Windwaker Link, Pikachu, and Twitter mascot by Fredoichi. His gallery is full of Lego scifi vehicles. Via.

*Buy Legend of Zelda toys at eBay.

Draw Mr. T Day

It's Draw Mr. T Day on Twitter. Via.

*Buy A-Team toys at eBay.

Fail Whale hat

Twitter Fail Whale hat by Hine Mizushima, who has art on sale at Etsy.

*Buy Martha Stewart Halloween props at Amazon.

Link roundup

1. Colourlovers has a fancy app for customizing your Twitter page background. Via.

2. "British intelligence services experimented with using semen as an invisible ink to write top-secret letters, it has been disclosed." "Mansfield Cumming" was the man in charge of the program. Via.

3. Hilarious parody by Alan Moore of Frank Miller's Daredevil. Via these sites.

*At Toycutter: Custom Daredevil toys.

*Buy Daredevil toys at Amazon.

Link roundup

1. Justin Bieber uses 3% of Twitter resources at any moment.

2. Great photo of an adorable girl on Splash Mountain.

3. i09 is looking for an intern.

*Buy Disneyland collectibles at eBay.

The Shining Twitter avatar

The Shining Twitter avatar by Adam Koford.

*Buy The Shining movie posters at eBay.

Maximedia's vintage ads now available as high-res downloads

Maximedia's vintage-style ads for Youtube, Skype, Twitter, and Facebook are now available as high-res downloads. Via.

*Buy vintage televisions at eBay.

Amp and Drum (link roundup)

Anthropomorphic amp and drum by McBess, who has art on sale here.

And a few more links:

1. You can download six tracks from Trent Reznor's new group How To Destroy Angels.

2. From China Mieville's Iron Council:

He had always hated the sedateness of these gardens, but now that they were ruined he found them a comfort.

3. USA Today asks, "Why has Twitter become a black thing?" Via.

*Previously: Anthropomorphic CFL.

*Buy NIN concert posters at eBay.