Links posted in March 2010
March 31, 2010
Atwood in the Twittersphere
Margaret Atwood's thoughts on being a Tweeter.
via
March 30, 2010
Glimpses of the Lost World of Alchi: Threatened Buddhist art at a 900-year-old monastery high in the Indian Himalayas sheds light on a fabled civilization.
Meetup ahoy! Not that I anticipate a huge response, somehow, but I'm planning to attend the Metafilter meetup in Auckland, NZ, next month. Any NZ monkeys (which I think amounts to rodgerd and vitalorgnz, although there may be more), please join me and I will buy you the beverage of your choice (conditions apply).
Fragrance cannons will be deployed to overpower the stink of Beijing's so-called Seventh Ring - a vast circle of garbage dumps and overflowing landfills. [more inside]
March 28, 2010
Hand-y relief effort The first half of the video is enough, please.
March 27, 2010
The International Banana Club® Museum (For Sale) – Via Gawker (sorry about that). [more inside]
Lullaby Furry Nanny sings baby to sleep (SLYT)
March 25, 2010
Alien vs. Pooh. An online comic.
March 24, 2010
Curious George Uses a Slow Cooker. Also known as a crockpot. Winter is almost upon us down under and it will soon be time to haul out the slow cooker. I had a recipe book but had to give it back to my sister before she got mad at me, and I'm too stingy to buy another. Share your tips, recipes or links to recipes for everyone here!
The Man Who Planted Trees. [Via]
Ugly Animals. Although some, I think, have been hard-done by. [more inside]
March 23, 2010
Plastic Bag But the COOLEST plastic bag ever, voiced by THE WERZOG!!! (SLYT, 18+ mins)
Repeat Performances This parallel between Jewish ritual and Civil War reenactment reveals a deep, unexpected similarity in Jewish and Southern culture that distinguishes both from mainstream American public life. Jewish and Southern cultures are both post-traumatic civilizations—they are both built upon a sense of overwhelming obligation to the past.
March 22, 2010
Pompeii Fast Food Joint To Re-open After Two Thousand Year Hiatus. [Via]
March 19, 2010
Draw yr own Monkey In fresh scalable vectors to adorn your website or other graphic creation. Or Just Because.
Waterboarding guidelines . This is the stuff of nightmares.
March 18, 2010
Exploring the meaning of Evil Pictures by Danish artist Nina Kleivan of her daughter dressed as Stalin and Saddam, as part of her exhibition 'Potency'. [more inside]
The Gettysburg Powerpoint Presentation How Lincoln could have better put his points across.
March 17, 2010
You can make your own loudspeakers... if you have access to a good woodshop, have the inclination, time and patience, you can make a pair of extremely good loudspeakers. Troels Gravesen is a biochemist and audio hobbyist - his website publishes some of the best documented DIY designs around.
March Madness: Not Just For Basketball Fans some spirited competitions here, from the Whedonverse to the Muppetverse (please please please vote for Rowlf), although the lovely and talented Miss C and the Flossers failed to include Consumerist's Worst Company Playoff or Nerdcast's Game Vs. Game Tournament or Queen Victoria's Royal Pick-Em, or the non-playoff-oriented Modok Madness (via thatotherfilter).
March 16, 2010
Not left to chance. Making sure you get that amazing wildlife shot by renting the wildlife is apparently a widespread, if somewhat under the radar, practice. [more inside]
March 15, 2010
Mix and match album covers Album cover art literally stitched together to create something new.
March 14, 2010
Star Wars as Icelandic saga - There is also an Old High German palimpsest known to scholars, later overwritten by a Latin choral and only partly legible to us today, which contains fragments of a version wherein “Veitare” survives to old age after slaying “Lûc” out of loyalty to the emperor, but is naturally still conflicted about the deed when the son of his daughter Leia avenges the killing on him.
March 13, 2010
Tree shrew lavatory in Borneo - the pitcher plant has evolved to capture tree shrew poo as a much needed source of nitrogen.
Lazertits! Because you always need to see nekkid ladies with lasers coming out of their boobs! Fluff for a Friday night.
March 12, 2010
So anyway, this website I visit reckons that I suck (well, not me personally, we've never met, but in a Venn Diagram I would be in the "suck" balloon...) because I block their ads. They've now written a detailed guide to not blocking their ads. [more inside]
March 11, 2010
March 10, 2010
A regular dose of lemon juice , that's all it took to prevent scurvy. The Royal Navy knew that in the 18th century. So why was scurvy back at the start of the 20th?
Ten songs you know, that never won an Oscar, in their original movie form. I never knew that Dean Martin had to fend off Jerry Lewis's bleatings whilst crooning "That's amore." And wouldn't we all prefer "Mean green mother from outer space" to be a standard instead of "Take your breath away"?
Star Wars Made In France [SLYT] I have no words to describe this. It has to be seen and heard. [via]
March 09, 2010
Building better teachers - or rather, preparing teachers better. (via, which includes this singularly *ahem* illuminating comment on why one is not prime. anyway.)
March 06, 2010
I don't know if this really counts as a link, but I've added a twist. Yeah, it's just a link to Google Maps. But wait, there's more...I've sort of invented a game. [more inside]
Curious George: has anyone experienced sleep paralysis? The other night, I dreamed a child was running into traffic with a hood over her head. With an immense effort, and several tries, a horrible croak awoke my mate, and so dissipated the wisps of nightmare. It was what it was, but I'm hoping others will share less pedestrian examples...
A new commercial from Rhett and Link. [more inside]
March 05, 2010
Pictures from the International Space Station via Twitter user @Astro_Soichi (Soichi Noguchi).
March 02, 2010
They Don’t Make Computer Manuals Like They Used To.
The Chilean earthquake may have tipped the earth's axis. The latest quake was big enough to affect the planet's rotation. [more inside]
The Oops Design Award is only in its first year, but you can already find dozens of silly, impractical and sometimes downright dangerous product designs on the site.
Home Sheep Home Get your wayward sheep back home. A little fleecy flash foolishness.
March 01, 2010
A temple complex in Turkey that apparently pre-dates the Pyramids of Egypt. Could this be the site of the worst mistake in human history? (agriculture or religion, take your pick...)
