So, does this chap just bathe in Catnip everyday?

Via

http://yougottaseethisvideo.com/2009/08/guy-becines-friends-with-38-lions.html

Willard Wigan: Hold your breath for micro-sculpture | Video on TED.com

http://www.ted.com/talks/willard_wigan_hold_your_breath_for_micro_sculpture.html


Via Fark

Ignite Show - Sort of TED on Speed (but less serious)

http://ignite.oreilly.com/show/
//Ignite captures the best of geek culture in a series of five-minute speed presentations on topics ranging from The Best Way to Buy a Car to Hacking Chocolate. Imagine that you're on stage in front of an audience of hundreds of people, doing a five-minute presentation using a slide deck that auto-forwards every 15 seconds, whether you're ready or not. What would you do? What would you say? Could you stand the pressure? Every week, find out how some of the smartest minds on the planet dealt with this situation as your host, Brady Forrest, highlights a different talk from Ignites around the world.//

Shakesville: Cat Experiments

http://shakespearessister.blogspot.com/2009/08/cat-experiments.html

FARK.com: (4590941) One of the greatest photographers ever was born 100 years ago today. Happy birthday, Henry

http://www.fark.com/cgi/comments.pl?IDLink=4590941&tt=s
One for the photo-heads among us

SELECT specific_problem FROM problems WHERE specific_problem != 'A Bitch' ORDER BY RAND() LIMIT 99; | MetaFilter

http://www.metafilter.com/84331/SELECT-specificproblem-FROM-problems-WHERE-specificproblem-A-Bitch-ORDER-BY-RAND-LIMIT-99

Wild swim: a magical dip in Skye's Fairy Pools | Travel | guardian.co.uk

http://www.guardian.co.uk/travel/2009/aug/21/wild-swimming-scotland-kate-rew

Check

Start:	Nov 1, '09 11:00a
End:	Dec 21, '10
Location:	wiki

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/scotland/8213612.stm

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abdelbaset_Ali_Mohmed_Al_Megrahi
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ronnie_Biggs

Cat Ladders From Around The World

http://laughingsquid.com/cat-ladders-from-around-the-world/

Video of Helen Keller and her teacher Anne Sullivan - Boing Boing

http://www.boingboing.net/2009/08/19/video-of-helen-kelle.html

A question for physicists out there....

I've been given a pair of polarized "3D movie" glasses to play with, but they've confused me.

If I put them on and look at my LCD (DELL E171FP ) monitor, the image on one eye is slightly different to the other. One's slightly browner, the other slightly greyer.

If I take the glasses off, and still looking from the "proper side" tilt them to and fro (clock/anti-clockwise) the effect is more pronounsed in both lenses...

I sort of expect that a bit, seeing as they're polarised and all

Now, the confusing bit. If I turn the glasses round (so the ear-hooks point towards the screen, and then repeat the to-and-fro motion the screen goes MUCH more dark (probably what I would have expected in the first place)... SO, how comes the lenses behave differently when viewing from one side to the other?

Hackaday: Moon phase light modification - Hack a Day

http://hackaday.com/2009/08/19/moon-phase-light-modification/

BBC NEWS | UK | Magazine | Your answers to 10 tricky children's questions

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/magazine/8200022.stm

Joachim de Posada says, Don't eat the marshmallow yet | Video on TED.com

http://www.ted.com/talks/joachim_de_posada_says_don_t_eat_the_marshmallow_yet.html

Common operating system for robots - Boing Boing

http://www.boingboing.net/2009/08/10/common-operating-sys.html

Dark Roasted Blend: Jet Engines on Trucks (For Fun and Profit)

http://www.darkroastedblend.com/2009/08/jet-engines-on-trucks-for-fun-and.html

Perseid /Geminid Meteor Shower

Start:	Dec 13, '09 11:45p
End:	Dec 15, '09
Location:	Up!

Perseid Meteor Shower Peaks Tuesday, Aug. 12

http://www.physorg.com/news168874856.html

Bouncy Laser Awesomeness | MetaFilter

http://www.metafilter.com/83895/Bouncy-Laser-Awesomeness


Reminds me of the Light-based creatures in Dark star

Bouncy Laser Awesomeness | MetaFilter

http://www.metafilter.com/83895/Bouncy-Laser-Awesomeness

NASA "Extraterrestrial-Life" Hacker Faces Extradition (Video Interview)

http://www.dailygalaxy.com/my_weblog/2009/08/nasa-hacker-faces-nearcertain-extradition.html
Is this true? Has this not been in the US Press?

http://freegary.org.uk/

World Science Festival on Vimeo - TED Beware?

http://vimeo.com/user1103909

Bobby McFerrin hacks your brain with the pentatonic scale - Boing Boing

http://www.boingboing.net/2009/08/01/bobby-mcferrin-hacks.html

World Science Festival 2009: Bobby McFerrin Demonstrates the Power of the Pentatonic Scale from World Science Festival on Vimeo.

WNYC - Radiolab » After Life

http://blogs.wnyc.org/radiolab/2009/07/27/after-life/

EDGE

http://www.edge.org/