Friday Links: September 30

Dachsund cat!


Muppet concert posters. [link]

More costumes from DragonCon. Lots that I hadn't seen before.


The pending "Batman: Arkham City" game has a song from the band "Raveonettes". You can hear their contribution here. [link]
Even if I don't play the game I'll want to have a look at the soundtrack.

60's style theme to "Dexter".


I don't care much about the show "Community", but one of the writers shows how he develops plot circles to help him write the story. [link]

A decent Freddy Mercury impression.


What you think you look like in a club compared to what you really look like. [link]

Draw a stick man. Then watch closely. [link]

"There is nobody in this country who got rich on his own. Nobody. You built a factory out there - good for you. But I want to be clear. You moved your goods to market on the roads the rest of us paid for. You hired workers the rest of us paid to educate. You were safe in your factory because of police forces and fire forces that the rest of us paid for. You didn't have to worry that marauding bands would come and seize everything at your factory... Now look. You built a factory and it turned into something terrific or a great idea - God Bless! Keep a Big Hunk of it. But part of the underlying social contract is you take a hunk of that and pay forward for the next kid who comes along."


71% of the debt was created by Republican administrations. [link]

Converting viewed images back into pictures.


Watermelon carved into flowers.


Puppy howl.


Another Republican debate, another reason to think they're all horrible people. The politicians AND the voters. [link]

What's the bar density in your area? [link]

Some grocery stores are starting to eliminate self-checkout lanes because they go slower. [link]
From what I've seen, the overwhelming majority of the problems come from the fact that the lanes stop when someone buys beer or cough medicine. Then we have to wait for 5 minutes for someone to tell the machine it's OK, move along. Home Depot at least has a person there to help with the 4 self-checkout lanes. They make sure problems are solved and traffic keeps moving. Giant, Safeway, other... please take note of Home Depot.

Older news by now, but this is what the Foo Fighters did when the horrible people at Westboro Baptist church showed up to protest their concert. [link]

Apparently it's easy to turn a crocodile orange. Just mess with the pH of it's water. [link]

It's official. DC really does have the worst traffic problems. Probably from all these newbie politicians always turning hard to the right. [link]

This woman is very fit. [link]

A brief history of the founding fathers of the United States and their attitudes towards vaccines. Skip to paragraph 9 if you want to get past the "Michele Bachman is Lying" part of the article. [link]

More Bachmann nuttyness - she claims Hezbollah is setting up camps and missiles in Cuba. [link]

Dolphins have learned to blow bubble rings.


Pole dancer show down. [link]

How to build a vertical garden of succulents. [link]

This isn't really a 3D printer so much as a CNC milling machine made of Legos. Still, check it out. [link]

"The Smurfs" top foreign box office returns for the 7th week in a row. Wow. It's been a long time since I've had good cause to say "I'm proud to be an American". [link]

Guy has tossed 4,800 messages in a bottle into the ocean and gotten 3,100 responses. [link]

Trash bag weather balloon-style camera launch. [link]

Oh, yeah. Oooh, ahhh, that's how it always starts. Then later there's running and screaming. [link]

What has been seen can never be unseen: the classic art edition. [link]

They call it the Liberal Decalogue. I call it the Thinking Man's Ten Commandments. After all, I've met a few religious and/or conservative people who follow the same rules. [link]

An article about Anonymous: internet heroes and villains. [link]
They're focusing mostly on the hacktivist portion of the group. They don't mention how they unveiled the woman who shoved the cat in the trash can, uncovered pedophiles, and sent help to people attempting suicide.

As long as we're on the subject, check out this cartoon about a hacker known as BoingThump. [link]

Check your cookies. Facebook may be tracking you. [link]

How school paper works. [link]

AIDS lowers your cholesterol. Or something. [link]

The Littest Doctor (Who). [link]

I haven't played it yet, but this article talks about a game that uses people to process data from the Kepler spacecraft. So far they've found 2 planets. [link]

Sesame Street to put in more scientific content. [link]

A pack of kids reproduce the fountain at the Bellagio with water guns. It's for a pool commercial, but it's still entertaining.


In Soviet Russia cake eats you. [link]

Star Trek: TNG crew as cartoon characters. [link]