FRIDAYTASTICA (Fri, 2 Dec 2005)

Just like every other week, here are your weekly links of the week.

This is just too scary and cool for words. Although composed almost entirely of words.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/4489792.stm

I like this guys sense of humor -

http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/7129/1427/1600/notice.jpg

This one made me laugh - a lot

http://www.theonion.com/content/node/42809

and so did this one:

http://www.mcsweeneys.net/2005/11/28fitch.html

Interesting article on Netflix -

http://money.cnn.com/2003/08/13/technology/techinvestor/hellweg/

The existence of this sport makes me very happy -

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chessboxinghttp://site.wcbo.org/content/index_en.html

This one is mostly for Nate -

http://www.i-mockery.com/shorts/rudolph16/

Did any of you ever read 'Interview with a Vampire?' Are you wondering what Anne Rice is up to now? Funny.

http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/books/250280_rice01.html

Also - like the West Side Story trailer and the 'Shining' one, here is a remixed trailer for 'Big'. I can't watch it on dialup - let me know if it is good!

http://www.metafilter.com/mefi/47191

And your weekly photos -

Emily, a stowaway cat, looks through the plane window before heading to Wisconsin at Roissy airport, north of Paris. Emily disappeared two months ago and wound up traveling across the Atlantic Ocean to France as a stowaway in a cargo container.

and

a Seagull