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Best Link Ever! Santo Gold, an Infomercial for Gold and Outer Space Wrestling

by Whitney Kimball on February 12, 2015

“If you smoked pot in Philadelphia in the 90s, you watched a lot of this”, we were told in a business meeting this morning. This is a commercial for Blood Circus, a 1985 independent science fiction wrestling movie shot in Baltimore, which is a commercial for performer Santo Gold’s jewelry line. It is a two-part film.

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Best Link Ever! Bubsy Goes to the James Turrell Retrospective

by Whitney Kimball on November 14, 2013
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A video game that unpacks the real meaning of art.

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Best Link Ever! Rich Dead People Are Cooler

by Whitney Kimball on September 11, 2013
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Here’s a $20 splurge we can justify: Heavenly Bodies: Cult Treasures and Spectacular Saints from the Catacombs. Art historian Paul Koudounaris has travelled all over Europe taking photos of the “Catacomb Saints,” skeletons of Christian martyrs that were found in the catacombs in the late 1500s, dressed up, and shipped out to various European churches to show people what happens if you join Christianity.

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Best Link Ever! Distractions Sell Cars

by Paddy Johnson on August 12, 2013
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There’s a bizarre bit of small print on the top of Lingscars.com, a website dedicated to leasing cars at low prices to UK drivers, and today’s Best Link Ever! “I live inside this website Monday to Friday 9am-6pm, to give you the very best service and make your experience a happy one! – I am Ling, accept no substitutes.” Ling is available to chat if you are.

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Best Link Ever: The Useless Web

by Ian Marshall on August 8, 2013
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The internet is a big, beautiful place, and thanks to Tim Holman it’s now easier than ever to get directed to single statement, single page websites. Rejoice, for the Internet Gods have spoken. The Useless Web takes you to any number of new and classic internet goodies with the click of a button, making it our new Best Link Ever. Say goodbye to the next hour of your life.

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Best Link Ever: Block by Block, Brooklyn’s Past and Present by BRKLNR

by Ian Marshall on August 5, 2013
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The folks at BRLYNR, a Brooklyn-obsessed blog, are really good at innovative and informative maps. They’ve made a map about journalism coverage neighborhood by neighborhood, a map about the most dangerous bike routes, and now, an interactive map that uses color to depict when every building in Brooklyn was built.

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