Friday, October 21, 2011

Friday Links: October 21

My laptop died Thursday night and I just noticed that my stupid phone posted this several spots down. Sorry about that.

The tale of a little girl who asked Christopher Hitchens for a reading list. [link]

Samsung is currently defending itself from a lawsuit that claims they ripped off the iPad design from Apple. You may have heard of their response that they stole the design from "2001: A Space Odyssey". Well, in court the other day the Samsung lawyers were asked to identify which data pad was which from 10 ft away and couldn't. [link]

An interview with Steve Wozniak, the other half of Apple in the early days. "I think Steve ... died happy."[link]

Extreme closeups of animal eyeballs. [link]

A Keaton Music Typewriter available on Etsy. [link]

An analysis of gender in restroom signs. [link]

North Korea is finally gonna finish this big triangular tower of theirs. Too bad I blew it up in a video game a couple of years ago. [link]

Saturday Night Live transcripts. [link]

A short film using garbled English.


The Walken Dead


Dora the Explorer and the sniper.


David Lynch's hair compared to paintings. [link]

Side car that rule. [link]

"A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to Thor's Hammer"
If you've seen any of the movies leading up to "The Avengers" you've seen Agent Coulson. He's a guy in a suit. He's there to see to it that rules are followed and papers are filed. People forget that "Agent" means "Agent of SHIELD". This video shows how even the SHIELD paper pushers handle robbers at a gas station in the middle of the night. [link]

The moon is made of titanium cheese. [link]

Darth Maul - turns out he survived being cut in half and falling down a bottomless death shaft. He'll be returning in the Clone Wars series. Well, half of him will according to these toys. [link]

River Song's story from her point of view. If you've been watching Dr Who the last 3 seasons you know why this video is needed.


Game: Georganism - control these blobs with different skills to navigate a maze. [link]

Mark Hamill is best known as Luke Skywalker. But his best role so far has been the voice of Joker in almost every Batman game or cartoon since 1992. Here he is at the NY Comic Con saying the famous Heath Ledger line.

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