Lego Turing machine | MetaFilter

http://www.metafilter.com/78759/Lego-Turing-machine

BoingBoing: 4 month-old chaos machine

http://www.boingboing.net/2009/01/30/timelapse-of-a-9mont.html
Time-lapse of a 9-month-old at play
This can't fail to bring a smile to a face

BoingBoing: More delightful silliness from "Look Around You"

http://www.boingboing.net/2009/01/30/more-delightful-sill.html
Mafipulation

Newborn Infants Detect The Beat In Music

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/01/090127083540.htm

URBAN EARTH

http://www.urbanearth.co.uk/
Nearest place I recognise is around 6:33

Via Random Acts of Reality

PolitiFact | The Obameter: Tracking Barack Obama's Campaign Promises

http://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/promises/
{I ought to check if they ran something similar before} Ah, they did

Also

YouTube - Youtube Street Fighter

http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=LPQ1XrllZmA&fmt=18
I still dislike games

Pictures That Make No Sense - Explain This Image - A rich source of caption posts

http://explainthisimage.com/
{Some may NSFW - in which case these ought to be definitely SFW but they're based on naugty pictures, as probably not recommended, though - someone else may have posted before?}

Check how things are - esp robots.txt

Start:	Jan 20, '10 8:00p
Location:	http://subtractadddivide.multiply.com/links/item/1141?mark_read=subtractadddivide:links:1141&replies_read=15

http://subtractadddivide.multiply.com/links/item/1141?mark_read=subtractadddivide:links:1141&replies_read=15

http://www.whitehouse.gov/blog/read_the_inaugural_address/

{Reset for 2,3,4 yrs time if poss}

Barack Obama's inauguration speech ... crafted by 27-year-old in Starbucks

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2009/jan/20/barack-obama-inauguration-us-speech
Good job!

New Ice Age maps point to climate change patterns

http://www.physorg.com/news151612069.html

Brits: Act now to stop Parliament from hiding MPs' expense accounts!

http://www.boingboing.net/2009/01/19/brits-act-now-to-sto.html

I2C Text to Speech Module -

http://www.acroname.com/robotics/parts/R184-SP03.html
Devantech Speech Synthesizer

7 Reasons To Hate Microsoft Songsmith

http://www.synthtopia.com/content/2009/01/18/7-reasons-to-hate-microsoft-songsmith/

Generating MIDI with Ruby - Hack a Day

http://hackaday.com/2009/01/16/generating-midi-with-ruby/

New York Architecture Images- black and white new york

http://www.nyc-architecture.com/SPEC/GAL-BW.htm
via Fark

Volkswagen Asks Why Take Unnecessary Risks At Work? | The Inspiration Room™ | Daily

http://theinspirationroom.com/daily/2007/volkswagen-asks-why-take-unnecessary-risks-at-work/

BBC NEWS | UK | TV presenter Tony Hart dies at 83

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/7836112.stm

HTML Test Bed

http://www.jmarshall.com/easy/html/f_testbed.html

BBC Domesday

http://www.si.umich.edu/CAMILEON/domesday/domesday.html
Ah, So *that's* what became of all that BBC Doomsaday Project Data

//Q: Why has the original 1086 Domesday book survived while the 15 year old digital BBC Domesday project is all but gone?

This isn't strictly true. The hardest part of the BBC Domesday preservation problem is understanding the "digital language" of the data and BBC Micro software stored on the disc. Using the original 1086 Domesday book relies on a knowledge of Latin which is to many of course, obsolete. //

Interview with an adware author - Hack a Day

http://hackaday.com/2009/01/14/interview-with-an-adware-author/

Happy Birthday Halfply

Happy Birthday Halfply!

All Your Friends are here!

Sadly Russell said he's busy, and can't make it till later (also said something about rollercoasters or something?)

BBC NEWS | Technology | Dangerous coding errors revealed

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/7824939.stm
The worst ones I've seen: (some of which are listed)
Not being specified right in the first place
Not reading the (correct) spec
"." instead of "," (or vice verse)
missing {braces}
Memory leaks/buffer overrun/broken stacks
Buggy compilers and processors
Just not considering everything ("Millennium bug" was most often caused by this -Century-change/rolling over using 2 digits to store numbers which could be 4 digits long - not allowing for minutes to be up to 61 seconds long, 16-bits to store much larger values...)
Floating-point related oddities
UNTESTED CODE! - If somone would have tested the applications properly, often the bugs would be located.

=^..^= I Can Has History? =^..^=

http://nm.merz-akademie.de/~helene.dams/icanhashistory/
via MeFi

Not for Pigeon lovers

*No motor vehicles were harmed in the making of this video.

Snow Cake

Rating:	★★★★★
Category:	Movies
Genre:	Other

A beautiful and gentle film with some brillant acting - For me, Alan Rickman, Sigourney Weaver's fabulous acts were eclipsed by the tiny piece the Grandmother (Jayne Eastwood) has - Watch her reaction in the wake scene, when Sigorney Weaver's dancing.

IMDB

BoingBoing: Web site to tilt-shift your photos

http://www.boingboing.net/2009/01/08/web-site-to-tiltshif.html

BoingBoing: Photos of the Northern Lights

http://www.boingboing.net/2009/01/09/photos-of-the-northe.html

Greg Lynn on calculus in architecture | Video on TED.com

http://www.ted.com/index.php/talks/greg_lynn_on_organic_design.html

FORA.tv - Scott Kim Creates Puzzles with an Impact

http://fora.tv/2008/12/12/Scott_Kim_Creates_Puzzles_with_an_Impact
http://www.shufflebrain.com/

Prepare to be dazzled! - The 4 fingered pianist

Yes, and pigs will fly...

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/lincolnshire/7817378.stm
BBC NEWS | England | Lincolnshire | UFO claim over wind farm damage

TED Jennifer 8. Lee hunts for General Tso | Video on TED.com

http://www.ted.com/index.php/talks/jennifer_8_lee_looks_for_general_tso.html

Top 10 Scientific Breakthroughs of 2008 | Wired Science from Wired.com

http://blog.wired.com/wiredscience/2009/01/top-10-scientif.html

Ford Demonstrates New Active Park Assist

http://inventorspot.com/articles/ford_demonstrates_new_active_park_assist_21781

FARK.com: (4116428) 2008: A Year in Haiku

http://forums.fark.com/cgi/fark/comments.pl?IDLink=4116428&cpp=1