Friday Links: January 20

What makes Fins good racers and learning how to race on varied surfaces. A clip from "Top Gear".


A word from a former Guantánamo detainee. [link]

This species of giant tortoise may not be extinct, just hiding. [link]

So there's this new video game controller called "Avenger". It wasn't being delivered on time so one of the people who pre-ordered it wrote in to ask when it was gonna show up. The company doing publicity decided that the appropriate response would be complete jackassery. Then the guys at Penny Arcade stepped in and ruined someone's life. You can follow along here.
The guy did eventually say he was sorry. Alas, he was just sorry that he was a jackass to someone with the pull to ruin his life, not for being a jackass. [link]

Push the button. [link]

A video John Scalzi's daughter meeting a record for the first time. [link]

A guy telling the story about how he went to check out where his electronics are made and the factory conditions. [link]

Huh. Turns out Santorum won the Iowa Caucus. Too bad for him that nobody cares anymore. [link]

A planetarium for the bathtub. Project either up or down. [link]

Alien attack as seen by surfers. A guy has to have his priorities.


If the food wasn't unappealing enough, here's another reason not to eat at McDonalds. [link]

You think SOPA and PIPA won't be abused? These are the people who tried to make VCRs illegal. [link]

Fun fact: SOPA would have the power to take down Whitehouse.gov and the author's own website. [link]

Look! A SOPA circumvention plug-in for Firefox. [link]

The reaction of politicians to Wednesday's SOPA/PIPA protest. [link]

CW, the network that brought us "Smallville" with Green Arrow will have a new "Green Arrow" series that isn't related to the "Smallville" series. [link]

Ellen McClain, voice of GlaDOS, cold reading something at a convention.

Here someone tweeked her voice for the full effect. [link]

An actor who played a goblin in the Harry Potter movies was victim of a dwarf tossing attack. He may be wheelchair bound for life. [link]

Thieves spend 6 months tunneling into an ATM. [link]

Heavy metal Batman theme medley. 3:40 FTW!

Be sure to check out this guy's other stuff.

Zombies to go the Twilight route. The horror. the horror. [link]

Stools made with solidified ferromagnetic fluids. [link]

Sledding crow.


Wall-E made creepy.


Disney to do "Into the Woods". [link]

6. FUS RO DAH [link]

A dangerous way to level a building. [link]

Raytheon shows off their snazzy new police cars. [link]
I want my GPS to be able to tell me where that emergency vehicle siren is coming from. Do I need to get over or is the ambulance on a cross street? I can't tell.

This is a good idea. The preferred glassware at my house are Ball jars. But do I really want them to look like sippy cups? [link]

The birds and the bees in slow motion and time lapse HD. [link]

I saw some flakes the other day. Is that enough to make one of these snow forts? [link]

A video of 30 hornets take out 30,000 honey bees. [link]
Wait, are these the same damn bees that won't hesitate to come after me if I step in the wrong place? FIGHT BACK YOU LOSERS!
Watch the video lower down the page that has the narration.

Pictures of a comet hitting the sun. [link]

More nature films! Short clips in slow motion. [link]

How Stanley Kubrick created the model for modern movie distribution. [link]

How graffiti should be done. [link]
Actually, the guy who did picture 16 (between the bus stop and Burger King trash can) did do a couple of place in DC. A wall and a phone switch box.

Why Best Buy is slowly going out of business. [link]

John Lennon was a crazy cat laddie. [link]