Lipstick Politics, the “Inner Osborne Effect”, and the Janet Jackson Video That Crashed Hard Drives

I bring you the finest Internet reading in my weekly Linkfest

It’s the end of Monday.

You made it.

Time to celebrate! By pouring a drink and kicking back …

… with this smorgasbord of the finest reading material I could find, just pour vous, in a week’s worth of surfing.

I am knocking myself out here for you fine people.

To begin …

1) 🐟 Eerily beautiful photos of larval fish

I’ve blogged before about the gorgeous style of “blackwater” marine photography, where the photographer goes diving at night-time and illuminates the sealife with a flash — producing stunning vistas of what appears to be thoroughly extraterrestrial life.

Steven Kovacs is a partisan of this technique; as Colossal writes …

Set against the stark backdrops attainable only during blackwater dives, larval fish become strange, otherworldly specimens with glasslike bodies and translucent fins that billow outward. Their delicate, still-developing anatomies are the subjects of Steven Kovacs’s underwater photos, which…