Friday, February 24, 2012

Friday Links: February 24

Take Your Child to Parlament Day. [link]

Bees on the rooftops of Paris, including the opera house. [link]

Black cat auditions in Hollywood in 1961. [link]

Sick kid gets to ride in a giant R2-D2. [link]

"Bohemian Rhapsody" played with electronics.


Tutorial on how the floppy disks are used to make noise. [link]

30,000 year old seeds sprout and bloom. [link]

Make a candle from an orange peel. [link]
I'll post pictures as soon as I try this.

Last of the great adventurers dies. No jaguar involved this time. [link]

Will March 8th be a bad day for you internet-wise? Find out. [link]

These game developers are trying to raise money. Buy before the end of February and get an elder god that can be used only once. Not once per round or per server or per battle. Once. Ever. Scroll down to "The Last Song of Väinämöinen explained". [link]

Really old computers still in use. [link]

Visual effects for The Walking Dead. How much was real and how much was actors staring at a green wall?


How to make cinnamon roll pancakes. [link]

Details about one of the more interesting planets recently discovered. A really hot water world. [link]

In the tl;dr category: 1811 DICTIONARY OF THE VULGAR TONGUE [link]

John Cleese answering YouTube comments about Monty Python.

HA! He knows "Skyrim" but not Jeff Dunham!

Tank graveyards. It's a pity they're not as organized at airplane graveyards. [link]

Dame Judi Dench is slowly going blind. [link]

Cockatoo feeding a dog noodles.


This sounds lame. It's an article about how Charles Dickens was an avid walker. But for some reason I kept reading. I think his appearance in a Doctor Who episode and some how it confirms a few things mentioned in the episode helped keep my interest. [link]

Cats as fonts. [link]

Leaked documents from the Heartland Institute about their plans to spread lies about global climate change. [link]

How to get a primate's interest.


Pictures of famous people together. My favorite is Ian Flemming with Sean Connery. But James Dean and Elizabeth Taylor is pretty good, too. [link]

Virginia now requires an ultrasound before performing any abortion. It will fail before the courts. [link]

Painting with coffee rings. [http://www.ohiseered.com/2012/02/jay-chou-coffee-stain-portrait-sneak.html>link]

The Obama administration has suddenly become very anti-medicinal marijuana. [link]

How much would it cost to build the Death Star. The article assumes using only Earth based iron instead of any already in asteroids. And it leaves out the cost of Earth to orbit transportation of materials or labor. [link]

Pictures from a sci-fi convention in 1980. Props to the Time Lord chatting with Moses. [link]

It's finally happened. TV networks for pets. [link]

Just because you're right doesn't mean you're not crazy. [link]

Nearly 400 House staffers were registered as lobbyists last year. [link]

Gingrich is wrong. You can put a gun rack in a volt. [link]

The story of a brilliant kid who really likes to play with fissionable material. [link]

In the same lines of last week's article about Mormons continuing to convert dead jews, here's a site to declare dead Mormons as gay. Personally, I was thinking about getting dead Mormons registered with the KKK. [link]

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