Links Friday: 7 Nov

A heron catches and eats a rabbit
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/earth/main.jhtml?xml=/earth/2008/09/29/eaheron129.xml

Octopus learns to kill lights with a squirt. Also juggles hermit crabs, smashes rocks against the glass, and plays with the fung shui of the tank.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/howaboutthat/3328480/Otto-the-octopus-wrecks-havoc.html

Moon bound Indian rocket takes new pictures of Earth.
http://isro.org/pressrelease/Oct31_2008.htm

The Cassini probe sends back new pictures. This time of the southern polar region of Enceladus.
http://ciclops.org/view_event/97/Cassini_Skeet_Shoots_Again?js=1
Archives at
http://ciclops.org/ir_index_main/Cassini?js=1

A new cartoon I found. This is one of my favorites from the archive.
http://mediumlarge.wordpress.com/2008/07/15/10/

Creepy pictures
http://steelgohst.deviantart.com/gallery/

Books with more accurate titles
http://mightygodking.com/index.php/2008/10/20/mgk-versus-his-adolescent-reading-habits/
http://mightygodking.com/index.php/2008/10/21/mgk-versus-his-adolescent-reading-habits-part-two/
http://mightygodking.com/index.php/2008/11/03/mgk-versus-his-adolescent-reading-habits-part-the-last/

J Michael Straczynski (Babylon 5, Changling, and a bunch of comics) is writing the "Forbidden Planet" remake. There's a link, but that's pretty much everything.
http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/hr/content_display/film/news/e3ib356467890c70c66f5453b8ea7d5fc00

SHIELDS! Somebody invented shields!
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/11/04/magno_forcefields_for_mars_ships/

Bacon beats Fries
http://whatever.scalzi.com/2008/11/05/well-yeah/

This might mean more to a former Kansan, but this is an article about one of rabid "Christian" Fred Phelps' sons who turned from his dangerous family.
http://www.ubyssey.ca/?p=5624

How to make a Yip-Yip costume. You know. From Sesame Street.
http://www.instructables.com/id/Yip-Yip-Costume/

Sugar cube sculptures
http://www.brendanjamison.com/sugarcube.html

Once upon a time you could order monkeys from comic books. Here are some stories of people who did that.
http://www.comicbookresources.com/?page=article&id=18236