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Linkdump 22-07-2012
Sun, Jul. 22nd, 2012 18:00- Every significant batsuit ever
Why yes, I have danced with the devil in the pale moonlight.
- Railworks Train Simulator: An Awesomely Stupid Review
Possibly the most sarcastic review of Railworks 3: Train Simulator 2012 that I've ever read.
- The craving for massive live events is ruining our cities
"The commercialism, the heavy-handed security, the ostentatious plutocracy and phoney patriotism of the modern Olympics are out of all proportion to the cause. What the Victorians reinvented as a herbivore festival of amateur athletics has become a parody of Hitler's chauvinist hysteria."
- Change, my dear, and not a moment too soon
- Is there too much swearing in the Guardian?
No, there fucking isn't.
- On self-censorship
Related. As Charlotte Bronte said: "The practice of hinting by single letters those expletives with which profane and violent people are wont to garnish their discourse, strikes me as a proceeding which, however well meant, is weak and futile. I cannot tell what good it does – what feeling it spares – what horror it conceals." Of course I thought of it first.
