Friday Links: June 19

New element to be added to periodic table. [link]

Some time back this guy posed some questions to the people behind WhoIsYourCreator.com. Their answers were unhelpful at best and outright lies at worst. He spent a year and a half in self-paced research, got a good education in evolution while also seeing American Christian organization's bald faced lies on the subject. In the end he left the faith completely. Here is his e-mail conversation with Who Is Your Creator staff. [link]

Awesome sofa (that's mostly sarcasm but not all) [link]

Neurobiology study of zombies. [link]

Airplane repo-man. You could make a good movie about this guy. [link]

36 pending sci-fi movies. [link]
50 "essential" sci-fi movies. (I've seen 41 of the 50+ listed) [link]

I'm very dubious about this, but it's cool if it works.

Multiflash system for making line art from photos. [theory link] [technical link]

Author hit by bad economy is offering a book online for donations. [link]

Worst. Cars. Ever. [link]

I'd never heard of Mr. Deity before, then got 3 links on the same day when he started season 3. Watch one of his videos. [link]

A rather good debate between Al Sharpton and Christopher Hitchens about the central idea of Hitchen's book "God is not Great". Hitchens bases his arguments around religious belief while Sharpton insists that just means religion is not great but what about the God that wasn't created by man? Really a good debate between two people who respect each other. It runs an hour and a half including the Q&A. It took me a couple of weeks to find the time to watch it, but I was glad I did.


Not my kind of art, but I know of at least one reader who will like it so it makes the list. [link]

2 Kings 2:23-24 - Elisha and the She-Bears
[Elisha] went up from there to Bethel; and while he was going up on the way, some small boys came out of the city and jeered at him, saying, “Go up, you baldhead! Go up, you baldhead!” And he turned around, and when he saw them, he cursed them in the name of the LORD. And two she-bears came out of the woods and tore forty-two of the boys.
Maybe you couldn't sic bears on people who picked on you as a kid, but you can make cookies that commemorate those who can. [link]

A mobile room. [link]

Game: The Budget Invasion. [link]

Movie news:
Indiana Jones 5 under development. Not much else to say. [link] Of course, Indy 4 spent decades under development.
Christopher Lee gets knighted. [link]
Whole Deadpool movie under development. Might not suck. [link]

Sept 11 hero dog cloned. [link] [photo]

Rather terrifying magnet. [link]

Damn fool religious people. [link]
Look, you're not supposed to turn on a light because flipping a switch is "work". Motion sensors aren't a sin. However, opening the door to go in the hall is if you worked the doorknob yourself.

Rap translation.

Flaming gas hole. [link]

Miss Pendershamp fired first! [link]

How to shrink a quarter. [link] Be sure to watch the video.

Barney Frank attempting to move the choice about medical marijuana to the states. [link]

The house in the movie "Up" is called a nail house. There are many of them in the world. Here are 6. [link]

How to make a tabletop Tesla coil. [link]

New Weird Al video, "Craigslist".

Libraries that own. [link]

Genesis revisited.

A mount to help you take pictures that can be joined into a panoramic view. [link]

Game: Polygonal Fury [link]