Friday, December 18, 2009

Friday links: December 18

Article about feal cat colonies. [link]

Asimov essay discussing degrees of wrongness. [link]

40 worst movies of the decade. No surprise about what movie got first place. [link]

When you use an automatic translator the message often gets garbled. Then even more so when you translate it back. Do it enough times and eventually it stops getting worse. This site finds that stable, but very strange, translation. [link]

Free serialized audio books. [link]
See also Librivox for audio of books that have entered the public domain. [link]

Lurker Tlaloc wishes militant Christians Happy Holidays. [link]

Octopus running with a coconut. [link]
Octopus loves his Mr Potato Head. [link]

Musical machines.

Two kinda creepy examples of stop motion animation. [link]

Crystal zoetrope (with video). [link]

The Bad Astronomer's top 10 astronomy pictures of 2009. [link]

Artificial Christmas trees must be used for 20 years to balance their production of CO2 relative to real trees. [link]

Song: Forgettable Side Dish. [link]

I forget who I was telling about this picture the other day, so you all get to see it. Probably for the second time. It's a Vietnam era X-ray of a guy with a grenade stuck in his eye. [link]

Tor, a significant publishing house, has started a podcast. To start it off they have author and famed blogger John Scalzi reading his short story "After the Coup". It takes place in Scalzi's "Old Man's War" universe. [link]

Non-secular charities. [link]

The origin story. [link]

Ok, a bit of religious music.

The Man From Earth - a movie about a caveman who is immortal telling his story to his fellow college professors before moving on.
Part 1 [link]
Part 2 [link]

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