Links posted in April 2010
April 30, 2010
No party for you!
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Schadenfreude with a side of mayo oil
Only the worst scifi and fantasy covers. I think I have a few of these in my bookcase...
April 28, 2010
Two questions I am often asked:
1. How far in advance do you work?
2. How quickly can you publish a comic on a current event?
and...
Don't get used to it, but here's another unfinished comic that would have gone stale if I waited to publish it in newspapers.
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This Is Alabama; We Speak English The Republican gubernatorial candidate [Tim James] is running a provocative ad arguing that Alabama's driver's license exam should be given only in English. [more inside]
April 27, 2010
Noah's Ark Found? (Fox news warning) They confirmed its age via carbon dating, but doesn't that method of age verification show that the earth is a lot older than the bible claims?
The highly endangered Amur Leopard (SLwebcam) in Tallinn Zoo, Estonia and her two cubs. [more inside]
April 26, 2010
This Waterfall Represents The Amount of Oil We Use Every Second.
A doodle a day Starting late in 2008, I started a project of drawing on, decorating, or otherwise defacing a 3 x 5 index card every day. [more inside]
April 25, 2010
May Day or Beltane?
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Some like to celebrate May 1st by giving a May Basket.
Some like to dance around the maypole.
I like to celebrate Beltane with FIRE!
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April 24, 2010
Training a cat to NOT open doors looks to be harder than one might think.
April 23, 2010
What type are you? What typeface best matches your character? (video, sound) [more inside]
The Economy is Sexy They fiddled with themselves while Rome burned? I like to think they weren't ignoring the problem but were turned on by it.
Bodily motions influence memory and emotions. "WHEN talking about our feelings, we often use expressions that link emotions with movements or positions in space... According to a new study published in this month's issue of the journal Cognition, expressions such as these are not merely metaphorical. The research provides evidence of a causal link between motion and emotion, by showing that bodily movements influence the recollection of emotional memories, as well as the speed with which they are recalled."
April 22, 2010
Blow this up. It's okay, it comes back together after a few seconds. (may require certain browsers; haven't tried it in IE)
The Prophet Mohammed has lots of venerated relics associated with him. Some of them are downright weird. My favorite is his footprints. The claim is that wherever he went, Mohammed's left foot left a semi-permanent impression. Mohammed is Bigfoot? [more inside]
SDO First Light: NASA's New Eye on the Sun Delivers Stunning First Images.
April 21, 2010
Unloveable, by Babybird. A nice music video, based on the short story An Occurence at Owl Creek by Ambrose Bierce.
Evidently 3D TV requires many warnings.
April 19, 2010
xkcd had a cartoon about Tetris recently called "hell". Now someone has made that game a reality in flash. [more inside]
April 16, 2010
The correct way to pronounce the volcano in Iceland.
MonkeyFilter will kill us all!
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Daisy_May! gets her revenge!!
I'm tellin' ya Monkeys, the link has changed. Will you not listen!
Oh, how, HOW did this happen?
U-2 Icon Bob Bogash has some great stories from his working life, like Kelly Johnson and the U-2 Dragon Lady and he's keeping himself busy in his retirement with The Hunt for a Boeing B-314 Flying Boat.
April 15, 2010
The Alot is Better Than You at Everything.
April 14, 2010
Meals on wheels Danish hotel offers food in exchange for pedal power
A vegetarian Komodo Dragon relative long known to native Filipino hunters but unknown to science has been discovered. The animal has never been identified by scientists before, though Filipino hunters have presumably been eating them for millennia. The animals were probably missed because they hide so well in the trees and were often confused with another non-vegetarian monitor lizard.
Man born without arms and legs writes an inspirational book. He can walk, swim, eat, and give speeches without limbs, and still has an amazing attitude.
April 13, 2010
Porn for the blind - a 13cm thick book of explicit softcore tactile nudes. (And I now know that Playboy has been (controversially) published in Braille off and on since 1970.)
Diminutive, but not Disappeared: Rare dwarf lemur rediscovered 100 years after last sighting.
April 11, 2010
Photo sharing! We haven't done anything like this in a long time. Post a photo you've taken that you think is really awesome for whatever reason. Technically awesome, an awesome subject (or an awesome photographer).
An Act for the Encouragement of Learning - the British Council and the 300th anniversary of the first copyright law.
April 08, 2010
Monkey GO Happy 2 Silly Simian Flash tomfoolery.
April 07, 2010
Tweets from Bruce, Oskar and Joan Are you up to the conversational expertise of your simian relatives?
April 05, 2010
Collateral Murder Wikileaks has acquired gruesome footage from a US military helicopter killing two journalists in Bagdad in 2007. [more inside]
April 04, 2010
A Massachusetts bill providing for response to public health emergencies has generated conspiracy theories. But is it even law yet? The Massachusetts legislative Web Site's bill history seems to indicate that the two houses haven't agreed on a final version of the bill yet. [more inside]
