Link roundup

1. Fun time waster: Knifetank: The Hauntening, a web based point and click adventure in a creepy mansion.

2. Long article at Fast Company about Boing Boing. This quote from Cory Doctorow struck home:

"I don't know what a liquidity event for Boing Boing would look like," Doctorow continues, "except for a job. If we were acquired by some content giant, if Yahoo or someone bought us out, it's just a job at Yahoo." (This is purely hypothetical, he says.) "If I wanted a job at Yahoo, I'd go look for a job there; they post listings pretty regularly. I'm glad not to have a job. I don't want a job."

I came to that same realization after an extremely short-lived experiment blogging elsewhere earlier this year. So short I didn't even have time to mention it here.

3. Really nice photos of one of Neca's Alien figures. (The site is full of high quality photos of expensive toys.)

*Buy Neca toys at eBay.

T-shirts celebrating Jaws and The Fly (link roundup)

Newest t-shirts from Last Exit to Nowhere: Quint's Shark Fishing (Jaws) and Bartok Science Industry (The Fly).

And a few more links:

1. "If sex is used to market a nonsexual product, that product is generic." Via.

2. New Delhi has spectacular traffic jams. Via.

3. Xeni Jardin's long and thoughtful response to Demi Moore's threat to sue Boing Boing.

*Previously: The Fly at 50.

*Buy Jaws posters at eBay.

Lego Octuparra Droid (link roundup)

Lego Octuparra Droid. See also: Homing Spider Droid. Via.

And a few more links:

1. Namor triptych.

2. Had a delicious hot coconut cream filled malasada at Leonard's. (It's awfully hard finding a decent coconut dessert.)

3. David Pescovitz's doublespeak post about the redesign of Boing Boing (can you tell whether BB Gadgets and Offworld survived?), and Offworld editor Brandon Boyer's more explicit comments.

*Previously: Fearsome Lego robot.

*Buy Lego minifigs at eBay.

Bird with headphones vinyl sticker (link roundup)

Bird with headphones vinyl sticker on sale at Etsy. Via these sites.

And a few more links:

1. Amazon apparently will tolerate paid reviews, but won't tolerate reviews pointing out that the other reviews might be paid.

2. ABC has a new sci-fi show based on the book Flash Forward and apparently plans to heavily promote a tie-in ARG website. This looks like a good place to watch the developments.

3. Gizmodo is hiring.

4. Owen Thomas mocks Boing Boing for praising Comcast - - their new sponsor.

*Previously: Flash Gordon style Lego spaceship.

*Buy vintage radios at eBay.

Today's Boing Boing/Violet Blue Update

Very funny comments at Metafilter.

More fun speculation about Boing Boing vs. Violet Blue

Owen Thomas and Melissa Gira Grant flesh out the sex scandal angle.

Melissa Gira Grant engages in some wild speculation as to why Boing Boing deleted a bunch of posts concerning Violet Blue

A love triangle between Xeni Jardin, Blue, and Kevin Sites is not even the strangest theory. Here's Boing Boing's statement on the matter.