ABC Linkdump- November 27

The thing about the three wise men is, if say Balthasar got waylaid chilling in Turkish baths or an intense new finance job- Caspar and Melchior would have powered through the night to bring baby Jesus his birthday gifts. They were hella committed to scoping the King of the Jews and knew that a divine birth without the dried sap of the Commiphora tree was barely a divine birth at all. This weeks Linkdump fancy fresh in gold, frankincense and a quantity of myrrh normally reserved for "MTV Cribs".

TG - One of my favourite new web discoveries of the month - The Straight Dope . Kind of like a "how stuff works" site, but with attitude style.

AJ- Winner of the Achewood themed Song Fight! "Livin' At The Corner Of Dude And Catastrophe" is- MC Frontalot feat. Brad Sucks. I revel in the confusion that this sentence will call to almost everyone. Know that all these things are frikkin' awesome.

AJ- Apparently these are "ACTUAL ENGLISH SUBTITLES USED IN FILMS MADE IN HONG KONG ". My favorite, "Greetings, large black person. Let us not forget to form a team up together and go into the country to inflict the pain of our karate feets on some ass of the giant lizard person."

TG - I got talking to someone in Sinai and the conversation turned to Billy Collins , the amazing Poet Laureate of America. Check out "Shovelling Snow with Buddha" for some serious Zen poetry.....

TG - I'll be feasting on international film for the next 6 days at the Cairo International Film Festival....

AJ- Before his incredible documentary series on the propogation of political ideology in the later 20th Century, The Power of Nightmares , Adam Curtis made The Century of Self ; a series "about how those in power have used Freud's theories to try and control the dangerous crowd in an age of mass democracy." View for free on Google Video.

AJ- Aaron Swartz did some data-crunching against many Wikipedia entries to determine how Wikipedia entries get written. If we were playing Civilisation IV, building Wikipedia would totally give you culture victory.