Friday, September 16, 2011

Friday Links: September 16

The US Government used to believe in the Yeti and drew some some rules for hunting it. [link]

Pictures and film from the set of "The Avengers". No spoilers but costume design. [link]

Power system for robotic robots. [link]

The biggest of all of Rick Perry's lies about Social Security. [link]

A slew of steampunked creatures. [link]

Mario in a box. How it works shown at the end. [link]

Results of a survey about how much people believe that climate scientists believe in global climate change. [link]

My commute to work is just like this!


The best science fiction books according to Reddit. [link]

You've see a few hundred Doctor Who references since the show returned in 2005 but never seen the show. Here's a trailer for the show since then.


A guy with a cybernetic eye (that records, not lets him see) investigates different kinds of prosthetics and compares them to a character in a new game. [link]

Fact checking the recent GOP presidential candidate debate. [link]
Face it guys and gals. Not a one of you stands a chance.

The Senate finally passed a patent reform bill of dubious value. [link]

The dog who won the award for longest ears. [link]

Google Maps is listing places as permanently closed. We've seen a lot of places listed that way in Baltimore. [link]

People prone to seizures probably shouldn't watch this fast paced morphing between paintings of people. [link]

Welcome back to school. Profanity is allowed in class, but only words from this list. [link]

In the future jobs suck. [link]

Entries for Astronomy Photographer of the Year 2011 with commentary. [link]

Harvest this weed by riding nude horseback riding. [link]

Antique radio dials. [link]

Santa Cruz PD is using a program that predicts home breakins and car thefts and assigns police appropriately. Gonna be hard to prove it's effectiveness if their presence causes crimes not to happen. [link]

Fall 2011 TV season start schedule. Looks like most of the shows I'm interested in will be on Hulu... exclusively. [link]

Remixes of the Nokia ringtone. [link]

The origin of said ringtone.


50 new planets found and confirmed. At least one found not to exist as previously thought. [link]

Food in history. [link]

A comparison of "Planet of the Apes" to "The Help" shows, once again, that you need sci-fi to do really hard hitting social commentary that people will listen to. [link]

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