Shared Items – December 2, 2010

• Memories of Ingrid Pitt.

• This got completely swamped under the Leslie Nielsen/Irvin Kershner news. Sad.

  • What?

• This is a thing of beauty.

  • When Living In Ireland, Boiled Down To Its Essential Ingredients, Is Like The Movie Version Of The Road

  • The Inevitability Of Prophecy Among Models Of New York

• Terrific article about how New York has been modeled in videogames.

  • Steve Jobs Gets His Head Shaved And Other Youthful Stories [Early Playboy Interview]

  • In a Word

• I shall be forcefully inserting this into every conversation I have for the next week or so. Just so you’re prepared.

  • The David Foster Wallace Files

• I’ll be honest here, I haven’t even looked at these links. I just saw the words “David Foster Wallace” and that was enough to merit a “share”.

  • Jet Lag May Cause Stupidity | Wired Science | Wired.com

• That’s a heck of a headline, Wired.

  • Great white sharks in Mediterranean

• Well, that’s just fucking great. We went to Sicily in September and the water was full of jellyfish, which were terrifying enough, but great white sharks?!

  • YouTube - World’s Biggest Harry Potter Fan

• Be afraid, Daniel Radcliffe. Be very afraid.

  • Saturday Dish #1: Stuffed Cabbage

• Manky weather, so this is my dinner tonight.

  • Theft girl (13) banned from Dublin 2 | BreakingNews.ie

• Anyone know how the authorities will be enforcing this ban?

  • Billboard’s Guess: The Beatles

• The Beatles was my first guess too. There’s something about the text of the announcement “Tomorrow’s just another day. / That you’ll never forget,” that sounds like a lyric or a reference, rather than just Apple’s normal bluster.

  • Jalopnik: Obsessed With The Cult Of Cars

• Well, there’s something I know I’ll be doing in NYC.

  • Zach Klein’s Blog

• A Boxee box is top of my Christmas wish list.

  • Google denies building Facebook rival

• Saved for future reference.

  • Where Are the Realistic Black TV Characters? - Newsweek

• That’s one heck of a logical leap, Allison Samuels. I personally stopped watching the show because, J.J. Abrams or not, it was cheesy, derivative and badly executed.

  • TV: Newswire: AMC cancels Rubicon

• FUCK YOU AMC.

Seriously, I am actually really freaked at this. All because they just got a huge hit with the Zzzzzzzzzzz-fest Walking Dead.

Furious.

• Did Someone Say Michael Caine-Off?

• I swear to God, Broadsheet is turning into a boingboing proxy.

  • Type 2 Diabetes Never Looked So Good

• Cannot look at this without thinking of the ending of Requiem for a Dream.