links for 2009-06-20

• YouTube - What is a Browser?
  Someone should try this in the UK. No, someone else.
  
  
• Walker steams ahead in awards
  Well deserved win for the Art In The Age of Steam exhibition which was truly one of the best collections of paintings I've seen in one place in many a year.
  
  
• SciFi Love: Capricorn One - great sci-fi moments number six
  We talked about this at the Tweetup. It is a great piece of work -- and as I said then my favourite moment is the freeze frame at the end with the three astronauts all caught in highly undignified positions.
  
  
• The Littlest Hobo (little_hobo) on Twitter
  "Nothing pisses me off more than some jackass giving me a milk-bone for stopping a nuke reactor from exploding. WHERE'S THE FUCKING STEAK??"
  
  
• Editor quits after journal accepts bogus science article
  Easily done. Really. No one can know everything and there does seem to be a bond of trust in the science (and arts world) that the academic won't screw over the publisher by submitting rubbish masquerading as research. I wonder how many examples of this do slip through.
  
  
• Reporter Ruins Guinness World Record Attempt from That Happened!
  "Geez Brian, I don't know what to say..."
  
  
• I have seen the whole of the internet: Mouse in Loaf, found in Supermarket in Ballymoney
  Suzie Sweet was unavailable for comment. Oh wait, um.
  
  
• BrokenTV: Heavily Stylised Gs and Silent Laments
  A history of Granada Television via its idents. Perhaps if ITV1 hadn't unified it wouldn't be in a better situation now.