Introducing: Fat Cactus - links to the world at large
JA
May 22
What is Fat Cactus we hear you say? Why it’s a new, irregular blog series, also of the spiked variety, that aims to catch up on some of the good things going on in the web during the week previous. So then, to while away your Saturday:
Ben Millen breaks down the iPhone infographically
The New Yorker profiles Andrey Ternovskiy, the creator of Chatroulette
In case you ever needed to break the ice at a party, here’s everything Don Draper said in Season Three of Mad Men
Playboy interviews David Bowie in 1976
Douglas Adams teaches us How to Stop Worrying and Learn to Love the Internet
The Guardian argues why there’s nothing wrong with teen fiction
We hear the the Twilight effect means that new adaptations of Jane Eyre and Wuthering Heights are on the way
And Will Shofield presents some amazing illustrations, Buggin Out in the Bunker, from the ASIFA-Hollywood Animation Archive
Our Friends
- Overland
- Alien Onion
- Ampersand Duck
- Andrew McDonald
- A Pair of Ragged Claws
- Arts Victoria
- Australia Council for the Arts
- Ben Eltham
- Bookshow blog
- CAL
- City of Tongues
- Crikey
- darkly wise, rudely great
- David Astle
- Elmo Keep Does Stuff
- The Ember
- Fly the Falcon blog
- Going Down Swinging
- Griffith Review
- Hackpacker
- Harvest
- HEAT
- Island
- Killings blog
- Literary Minded
- Lorraine Crescent
- Lynden Barber
- Mandy Ord
- Marcus Westbury
- Matilda
- Meanland
- Melbourne University Publishing
- Mel Campbell
- The Monthly
- Musings of an Inappropriate Woman
- Oslo Davis
- Paul Callaghan
- Read, Think, Write
- Sleepers Publishing
- Sorrow at Sills Bend
- SPLOG
- Tom Cho
- Virgule
- Wet Ink
- Wheeler Centre
Comments
22 May 10 at 17:44
fat cactus…that made me laugh! Especially love that link to the David Bowie interview.
...23 May 10 at 9:58
I’d be lying if I said we weren’t going for a giggle with the name.
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