Links posted in May 2009
May 29, 2009
Cat Yodeling My wife made me post this.
May 28, 2009
Do blind people prefer blondes? This Beeb magazine article was insightful for me. [more inside]
May 27, 2009
The Ten Doctors , a webcomic romp through time and space featuring all 10 incarnations of Doctor Who and all your favourite companions and villains, ended today after 247 pages, a near-superhuman achievement by Rich of Yet Another Fantasy Gamer Comic fame.
May 25, 2009
Notfertiti - a modern fake or an ancient portrayal of Queen Nefertiti?
What kind of battery should you wish for? The boring old matter anti-matter E equals M C squared kind? OR the pulling atoms apart kind?
May 24, 2009
A collection of medical instruments . The silver plated ear trumpet is quite something. As is the nipple shield. [more inside]
May 23, 2009
Coffee or ... (SLYT) [more inside]
PARO - the therapeutic robot baby seal. (and an entirely unrelated warning)
May 22, 2009
Lord Lionel Walter Rothschild - As well as establishing a private zoological museum at Tring, Rothschild also established the edible dormouse or Glis glis. He was a big fan of the cassowary and author of Birds of Laysan.
May 21, 2009
"I chose the potato to portray human faces because of the many striking parallels".
May 20, 2009
What's next for Willem Dafoe? After his role in Lars Von Trier's AntiChrist the edgy actor has again exerted his penchant for imponderables. The recent screening at Cannes evoked violent reactions from armchair aesthetes in response to disjunctions of sexuality. The weighing of losses? Could that be the message intended? I haven't seen this yet, but expect it will put me well outside my comfort zone. [more inside]
May 19, 2009
A Field Guide to Highway Interchanges: Part 1 and Part 2. Wow.
May 18, 2009
Curious George: Windows vs. Mac It's time for a new computer and I am seriously torn... If Windows, what kind of machine? Is Mac really worth the extra $$$? [more inside]
Transit duration: 0.8s Transit bandwidth on Earth: 5.6 km. Altitude: 600 km. Speed: 7 km/s (25000 km/h). Length of Atlantis : 35m, length of Hubble : 13m. via
Hopefully, nobody we know... It's the weekend, ok?
May 17, 2009
A GQ article on Donald Rumsfeld
. The throw up in your mouth interesting bit is the dozen or so cover sheets for the daily Iraq War intelligence briefing. Each with its own passage from the bible. The slide show on the main link isn't working for me, but you can see them by incrementing the image numbers in the URL of the second link.
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There's a zombie on your lawn! Plants vs Zombies. It's a very cute, horribly addictive game. Download for an hour of free play, or create your zombified avatar on their website. If, like me, you are hooked after half an hour, you can get it for $10US from here. Hopefully in the demo version you get to see the Michael Jackson zombie.
May 15, 2009
Awkward. Awkwaaaard [more inside]
Unemployment got you down? If you already have a prescription for Viagra, and then lose your job, Pfizer will keep your head up high for a whole year, FREE!
Space Zen: Will Humans' Brains Change During Travel in Outer Space?
May 13, 2009
Where are you on the Wolverine hair chart? Are you Side Puffs? Are you Classic Pointy? Or more Classic Mane? How about Puffy Balls? Perhaps you're somewhere on the road to Mustachery. I admit I'm Basic Flat Top. I'm so boring. On the other hand I'm glad I don't have Friendly Muttonchops.
May 12, 2009
Burial at sea [BBC video]: it's not just a roll of sailcloth and two roundshot any more. The latest thing is to have your ashes mixed with concrete to create part of an artificial reef. A few companies will make your remains into a fish-friendly little holey ball or there's this underwater sculpture garden you can become part of off the Florida Keys.
Artist Simon Schubert makes rooms by creasing paper
Early Comics & Cetera A website about picture stories and appertaining topics. [more inside]
Martha Mason, dead at 71.
Ms. Mason died on Monday at her home in Lattimore, N.C. She was 71 and had lived for more than 60 years in an iron lung.
In the centuries to come it is my firm belief that it is vaccination that will be seen as _the_ medical advance of our time.
May 11, 2009
Tir Nan Og A lovely little animation from YT [more inside]
May 08, 2009
Don't point and laugh!
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Stole this direct from the Blue. Interesting theory, but the best part of the whole post was their comments.
This is gen-U-wine spit-take material, so ah, whatever's in your mouth, swallow please.
tips hat to hippybear
From SciAm, but possibly NSFW if your boss isn't into penis theory
May 07, 2009
I have a good feeling about this. Ads promoting Star Wars weekends at Disney World. Pepsi Blue, yet cute. [more inside]
Freeze Frame
- Historic Polar Images, 1845-1982 from the Scott Polar Research Institute
"Freeze Frame is the result of a two-year digitisation project that brings together photographs from both Arctic and Antarctic expeditions."
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May 06, 2009
ChickenFilter KFC is apparently giving away free chicken, if you can beat the server traffic. Coupon printable today only! Monkeys eat chicken, don't they?
May 05, 2009
Six transcripts from the UK's 999 service.
My First Dictionary Introduce your young'uns early to the strangeness, quiet misery and despair that are modern living.
May 04, 2009
A look inside the baby mind: "A recent brain scanning experiment by researchers at Johns Hopkins University found that jazz musicians in the midst of improvisation - they were playing a specially designed keyboard in a brain scanner - showed dramatically reduced activity in the prefrontal cortex. It was only by 'deactivating' this brain area that the musicians were able to spontaneously invent new melodies. The scientists compare this unwound state of mind with that of dreaming during REM sleep, meditation, and other creative pursuits, such as the composition of poetry. But it also resembles the thought process of a young child, albeit one with musical talent. Baudelaire was right: 'Genius is nothing more nor less than childhood recovered at will.'"
May 03, 2009
May 02, 2009
May 01, 2009
It's a record!!! (plus it looks like they only painted one side).
