Link roundup

1. I mentioned last month that I was really disappointed with Drew Magary's novel, and that he's usually very funny. Here's part of something he posted this week at Deadspin (ADULT language):

There was a cave cricket in my basement last night. They're horrible, nasty creatures that have +8 jumping ability. You have to act FAST in order to exterminate the little cocksuckers and protect your family, and so I quickly pinned him against the wall with a toy rocking chair and he was all mangled up against the wall.

Now, after a good kill, I like to go take a leak and let my victim sit there for a little while, just so the other cave crickets know THERE IS NO FUCKING AROUND HERE. So I go to take a leak, and when I return, the cricket is GONE. No! It cannot be! Inconceivable! I spin around, and there he is, hopping along the opposite wall and seemingly regenerated. ZOMBIE CAVE CRICKET. And I say to him, out loud, "I killed you!" I really did say that to him. Then I said, "I won't make the same mistake twice!" and then BOOM! I laid down the foot of doom, gathered him up in some TP, and down he went. I had failed to heed the lesson of Die Hard 2: Next time you have a chance to kill someone, DON'T HESITATE.

Funnier and more compelling than anything in The Postmortal.

2. "The Culturally Biased SAT: Hip-Hop Edition."

3. There's usually an explanation for superhuman athletic performance.

4. Fictional journalist writing real articles.

5. Laika's hiring.

6. The Black Friday sale has started at TFAW.

$25 dollar computer, Available soon

A man named David Braben has designed a computer that costs only twenty-five dollars to make; it runs on the free operating system, Ubuntu (Linux). This allows them to avoid the hefty costs of paying for individual keys for each copy of the operating system.

David hopes to be able to offer the computer for free to British students, to help further their education. I hope he'll be releasing it, too! It would be awesome to be able to carry around a small computer than hooks up to a big screen, like this!

Source: http://www.gamespot.com/news/6312371/david-braben-designs-25-computer