Friday Links: January 29

The story of a man who removed his own appendix in the Antarctic. [link]

New soldier exoskeleton video.

Orangutan plays peacemaker. [link]

Thumping music may help with dust issues on Mars and Lunar colonies. [link]

Doctors Without Borders setting up an inflatable hospital in Haiti.

The sound of ice cracking as heard underwater. [link]

Flexible Kindle. [link]

I've posted this before but I'm posting it again. It's a several year old Nova special about the second DARPA Grand Challenge. A contest in which different groups created self controlled vehicles and then raced them.

I posted that because I wanted to show you this. The technology to create self driving cars is easing it's way into common use. This is just smart cruise control, but it's another step. Article and two videos. [link]

Frederick Pohl talking about Isaac Asimov as a kid. [link]

Gun company that printed Bible verses on guns promises to stop and provide kits to remove existing verses. [link]

And a company that was selling bomb detectors based on dowsing rod principles has received a smack down. Export of the devices is now illegal and the owner of the company has been arrested for fraud. [link]

CBS news video of the story.
Watch CBS News Videos Online

Which Doctor Who are you? [link]
I'm Tom Baker. No surprise there.

Game: Akinator - Story character guesser. [link]

John Scalzi reading "Judge Sn Goes Golfing". [link]
I heard him read this when he came through DC.

Kick ass furniture designers. [link]

Old ad for the "Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy Game." [link]

Incendiary blog post formula. [link]

The always awesome trailer to "The Shining".

10 greatest sci-fi movies never made. [link]

A collection of space images taken by an amateur astronomer from his shed. [article] [his site]

15 worst deaths from experimentation. [link]

Conjoined twins getting married. That's gonna be an odd sex life.
Abigail and Brittany

Game: Civilization Wars - gain experience, get skills, kick ass, conquer all the civilizations. [link]

Interesting article about the evolution of dogs. [link]

Collection of interspecies friendship videos. [link]

Fruit flies can't handle their liquor. [link]

Cat protects house from bear.

Earth becoming invisible to aliens. [link]

A partial explanation of where the economic stimulus package was spent. [link]

A Rush Limbaugh story we wish was true. [link]

Chimps make movie to be shown on BBC. Link includes the trailer. [link]

This is what I thought we were getting with the iPad. [link]

Garry Kasparov article about computer chess and how it's evolved. [link]

Richard Dawkins calls Pat Robertson a real Christian. Smiting Haiti is very God-like. [link]

Jet packs probably won't ever work. Here's the next best thing. [link]

Screw Pokemon. There's a better idea for trading cards. [link]