Tipping and Tooting - A comic about people who wait tables.

One of Us. "These are stimulating times for anyone interested in questions of animal consciousness..." [Via]

Evolution and Existentialism, an Intellectual Odd Couple. [Via]

Where's that confounded sun? Used to navigate when the lodestone fails, Vikings and Englishmen of olde, could find the position of the sun on cloudy days by rotating a calcite crystal and lining up the two planes of light diffracted from the source even on cloudy days, according to a French team researching a British shipwreck.

Guy Builds Solar-Powered Death Ray In His Backyard (Yawn). [Via]

The Reagans Speak Out on Drugs. This re-edit of the "Just Say No" speech was created by Cliff Roth in 1988 and originally released on VHS.

Nyan Waits

The 3 Snake Leaves. [Via]

Embroidered Eggs

Doomed: a biological cartoon! [Via]

Misguided Nostalgia for Our Paleo Past. Via

Godless small things: The discovery of a microscopic world shook the foundations of theology and created modern demons. [Via]

The Holosuite is ready for you now, Captain. Scientists in the United States have turned science fiction into reality with a wrap-around virtual reality screen where researchers can visualise their data in three dimensions. Warning: Video auto-starts. more inside

Hilda of Klint painted monumental abstractions before abstractions were cool. In seclusion at the start of the 20th century, she worked spontaneously, insisting that her paintings not be shown until 20 years after her passing. Many of her pioneering efforts are seen now for the first time.

A Handful of Civilised Friends. Works by Katrina Rhodes. [Music autoplays. Via]

These sculptures of impossible creatures look ready to spring to life.

Cannibalistic Cop frightens away jurors in lurid case. It's hard to make a fair trial for somebody accused of the worst, as shown in New Guinea recently - even though the witch was herself purportedly tried by cannibals.

Longcat Is No Longer

Cyriak's latest mind-bender is a music video for Bonobo's song "Cirrus" Fifty-year-old footage of children at play, housewives at work and people and things on the move follow the music and overlap into increasingly complex combinations of... well, Cyriak-ness!

Irrational eliptic curves animation ... Well, that's what I was looking for. I leave it for the long lost geek monkeys to figure it out.