John Paul Jones, Revolutionary War hero known for saying "I have not yet begun to fight", has a great story from after he died. Listen to it at The Memory Palace. [link]
WWI ship camouflage didn't hide the ship. It hurt the eye. [link]
Cartoonist Bill Watterson's other stuff. [link]
Minimalist Star Wars galaxy posters. link
Nice photographs. [link]
Silly astronaut. You don't belong there. [link]
If you type each number in order spelled out in English how long will you have to type before you hit the C key? link
Wait, Wait, Don't Eat Me. A Wait, Wait Don't Tell Me episode from the zombie apocalypse. link
Cat nip filled severed leg toy. [link]
To foil Obama the GOP takes positions that they opposed under Bush and oppose positions they favored under Bush. [link]
An independent store finder. Great for finding used book stores. [link]
An evolution book for children. [link]
Some of J.D. Salinger's other stories. [link]
Man waterboards his 4 year old daughter because she doesn't know her ABCs. [link]
Satellite tracking app for the iPod or iPhone. [link]
Sarah Palin says it's ok for conservatives to use the word "retard" but not liberals. [link]
[link]NASA has a robot used in space. Technically it's called Robonaut but the astronauts call it Boba because it has a Boba Fett head. [link]
The new version, Robonaut 2, is being called R2. It head doesn't look like Boba Fett. [link]
Make your own bird cage. [link]
There's a show in England called "Dragon's Den" where people pitch their business idea and/or invention to a group of venture capitalists asking them to invest in their business. In a recent episode a homeopath pitched his bottled water as a universal cure all. They ripped him apart.
Denmark has decided that their government will use open file formats for their electronic data. This means they will not use the proprietary formats created for Word, Excel, WordPerfect, and similar apps. They will continue to use those apps, but only if they adopt open file formats in addition to their historical formats. [link]
The story of the man who made the first movie special effects. [link]
From 1940 until now a breakdown of how your tax money was spent. [link]
One of my favorite videos. How crows use traffic to crack nuts.
Republicans have filibustered more in the last year than in the whole of the 50's and 60's combined. [link]
Recently you probably saw an article about a man who had been thought to be in a constant vegetative state for years but it was "proved" that he wasn't because of someone who could guide his hand. Funny how what he wrote was only in the guide's native tongue and not the patient's native tongue.
Now there's a way to ACTUALLY get responses from people who seem to be in vegetative states. [link]
Snails that grow iron shells. [link]
Best. Chase scene. Ever.
Dancing hexapod robots.
Moths under lights. [link]
Game: Rubble Trouble - building destruction puzzles using a variety of demolition tricks. [link]
1 comment:
Okay, so I make a lot of graphs for my job. And this is nothing critical on either administration, but the job loss graph has a really bad double negative in it. Negative Jobs Lost... I would think the professionals would know better.
I love the Friday links btw. I'm just glad I stopped trying to check them at work.
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