Friday, February 26, 2010

Friday Links: February 26

20 most miserable cities. [link]

NASA engineer submits pictures of patch jobs in space to ThereIFixedIt.com. [link]

Apparently we should avoid this wine. [link]

I watched "At the Movies with Siskel and Ebert" on occasion as a kid. You know, back when there were four networks and one of those was PBS. I heard when Siskel died, but other than that I ignored the show and Ebert for years. We differ on movie opinions. In the last year or two I've been pointed at Ebert's blog a couple of times regarding non-movie stuff. I missed the surgeries that caused him to lose his voice... and his jaw. A recent article about Ebert showed a picture that I would never have guessed was the same guy I saw on TV. [link]

Democrats can't put their feet on the President's desk, but it's fine if Republicans do it. [link]

Republican Governor repeals non-discrimination laws for gay state employees. [link]

UK companies reject Glenn Beck. His show has run 5 days without ads. [link]

Parts 4 and 5 of this Captain Disillusion video explains how Derren Brown REALLY did his trick where he guessed lotto numbers. I watched Derren's video back when he did it. His explanation was obvious bullshit.



Always a favorite video.

In a recent post I expressed skepticism about the guy thought to be in a vegetative state for years who was shown to be awake and aware by someone guiding his hand. Remarkably, he couldn't write messages in languages that the "interpreter" didn't know. Further testing has proven that the interpreter is a fraud. [link]

Nazi nuke project artifacts found. [link]

Should we clone a Neanderthal? Hell yeah! That'd be awesome! [link]

Pigeon on the subway.

Picture and explanation of a dwarf galaxy with a bow shock. [link]

You may have heard about Bob Marshall's claim that if you have an abortion that God/nature takes it's wrath on future children by making them disabled. Well, that's just not true. And Marshall has taken so much heat that he's now claiming that he didn't say that. Sorry, Bob, but everyone has a video camera these days.

Cartoon explaining the development of the brain. [link]

30 useful, but largely unknown, web apps. [link]

A chart explaining why people pirate movies. [link]

Turn a website into a song. [link]
My URL stinks, but adobe.com is pretty good.

I see the value of Segway's new product, but it's not the commuter vehicle that a regular Segway is. [link]

I've been working through this list of great animal videos slowly for weeks. [link]
Among those is this great video of deep sea bioluminescent animals.

Cherenkov radiation.

Hologram music video. Supposedly, no post production was done. This is what the audience saw.

Neurosonics Live from Chris Cairns on Vimeo.



Robotic vibraphone.

Temple found that's 5,000 years older than the universe (according to creationists). [link]

Waterless hand sanitizer created. Great way to wash your hands in space. [link]

8 shipping container homes. [link]

Even Fox News starts getting scared by how far right the GOP seems to be getting. [link]

Why does the crime rate keep dropping? [link]

Sarah "Obama will kill your grandparents" Palin's grandkid is on socialized medicine. [link]

First zombie book. [link]

Blooper reel from 1936.

General Patraeus rejects Cheney's tactics.

Game: Poppable Cascade - eliminate groups of balls to clear the levels. [link]

Endless domino loop.

Best Wii controller ever. [link]

Game: ShellCore Command - kinda like a tower defense game, kinda like a real time strategy game [link]

An essay explaining why everyone is a fake. [link]

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