Links posted in September 2009
September 29, 2009
Unccl DQnl. Gb lbh.
Spider silk tapestry. They wove a tapestry from spider silk. Now on display at the American Museum of Natural History. Spider. Silk. really. caution for the phobic: links contain images of spiders
September 28, 2009
Rock. IGneous rock. *internal voice adopting James Bond kinda voiceover here*
A moving series of blog posts.
Craig is an accomplished fisherman, a wonderful writer, and a faithful dog lover, whose best friend was his Golden Retriever, Drake. For the past month or so, Drake has been struggling with a brain tumor. This is Craig's blog about this ordeal.
Read it from the bottom, have the tissues ready, and spend the rest of the evening petting someone with four feet.
September 25, 2009
Unplanned Freefall: Survival Tips. Etiquette for those awkward moments when there's 30,000 feet between you and civilization. Brought to you by the Freefall Research Page. Fallen from a great height? They want to hear about it.
September 24, 2009
The only woman in the French Foreign Legion
September 23, 2009
Mouse steals leopard's lunch. Leopard is puzzled.
September 21, 2009
The Fox was a folk hero who made a positive environmentalist impact while causing fear in the halls of corporate polluters. Pulitzer Prize winner Mike Royko, syndicated columnist for The Chicago Daily News, was one of many who denied that The Fox was an eco-terrorist. Royko's FBI file was 86 pages long, so not everyone agreed. [more inside]
Scanning Dead Salmon in fMRI Machine Highlights Risk of Red Herrings.
September 20, 2009
I will not read your fucking script. Really. I will not read it on a dare I will not read it for a scare
September 19, 2009
Hospital food bingo , and heeeere's your host - Traction Man!
September 18, 2009
September 17, 2009
Moar Yodeling Cats. They're back and better than ever.
September 15, 2009
Magic Lanterns and other Optical Toys Richard Balzer's collection of pre-cinema visual entertainment devices. [more inside]
September 14, 2009
September 12, 2009
Spacecraft 'could surf gravitational tubes' to make solar travel more efficient. "Gravitational corridors could help spacecraft travel the solar system like ships carried on ocean currents, making longer and cheaper journeys possible, it has been claimed."
September 11, 2009
At last. Thousands of people have come together to demand justice for Alan Turing and recognition of the appalling way he was treated....Alan and the many thousands of other gay men who were convicted as he was convicted under homophobic laws were treated terribly.
Libya's Qaddafi Threatens Switzerland... with a UN Resolution dissolving the country. (1) The UN rejected it immediately (See? They do make SOME sense there.) (2) It apparently is the latest escalation of an incident in which the dictator's son was arrested in Geneva for assaulting his own servants. (3) Hey, it's a lot more civilized than a lot of things he could do... Oh, that Daffy Qaddafi...
September 10, 2009
IKEA chánges fönt. From Futura to Verdana. And it gets noticed. Petitions to change it back are started. IKEA is bemused.
September 09, 2009
Has the legendary Bigfoot been photographed? - YouTube vid with audio - article originally here. [more inside]
September 08, 2009
Level 26: a revolution in publishing?
Vauban - Between 1667 and 1707, Vauban upgraded the fortifications of around 300 cities in France, and some of his finest work is on the World Heritage list.
September 07, 2009
A new species of giant rat has been discovered deep in the jungle of Papua New Guinea.
September 04, 2009
Farouk al-Kasim arrived in Norway in 1968 (the story from the day of his arrival in Norway is recounted in the article, and the stuff of legends) and would end up helping guide Norway into responsibly managing its oil reserves. [more inside]
September 03, 2009
Visual assessment of problematic transitions.
September 02, 2009
Don't judge my hair. Ah, go on then. Worth clicking back to some of the earlier pages.
September 01, 2009
A Venn diagram of mythical creatures. Pretty good - it works in three creatures I hadn't even heard of, and others I was a bit vague about. Why no chimera, though? (And why were there no winged centaurs?)
