Beauty and the brain | Not Exactly Rocket Science | Discover Magazine

http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/notrocketscience/2011/10/06/beauty-and-the-brain/
via
http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/notrocketscience/2011/12/31/a-round-up-of-the-year/

Euphemism List — Examples & Meanings of Euphemisms

http://www.euphemismlist.com/

List of humorous units of measurement - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_humorous_units_of_measurement

Top 10 Truly Bizarre Programming Languages

http://listverse.com/2011/02/17/top-10-truly-bizarre-programming-languages/

10 More Common Faults in Human Thought

http://listverse.com/2010/04/12/10-more-common-faults-in-human-thought/

10 Facts about Portable Electronics and Airplanes | Observations, Scientific American Blog Network

http://blogs.scientificamerican.com/observations/2011/12/22/10-facts-about-portable-electronics-and-airplanes/?WT.mc_id=SA_Twitter_mdichristina

300 years of fossil fuels history – in 5 minutes | Plugged In, Scientific American Blog Network

http://blogs.scientificamerican.com/plugged-in/2011/12/21/300-years-of-fossil-fuels-history-in-5-minutes/

15 bumfit - Numberphile | MilkandCookies

http://www.milkandcookies.com/link/282707/detail/

Antonio Damasio: The quest to understand consciousness | Video on TED.com

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

Doodling in Math Class: Spirals | MilkandCookies

http://mcooki.es/282010

Physics World reveals its top 10 breakthroughs for 2011 - physicsworld.com

http://physicsworld.com/cws/article/news/48126

Tool detects patterns hidden in vast data sets | Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard

http://www.broadinstitute.org/news/3784

Paul McCartney: Yesterday, 1965 vs 2011 | MilkandCookies

http://www.milkandcookies.com/link/280836/detail/

Letters of Note: Space: The Final Frontier

http://www.lettersofnote.com/2011/12/space-final-frontier.html

How biased is your sample? | Nathan Green's S word | Science | guardian.co.uk

http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/2011/dec/02/biased-sample-statistics

Letters of Note: Space: The Final Frontier

http://www.lettersofnote.com/2011/12/space-final-frontier.html

Dmitri Mendeleev's business card and Ernest Rutherford's potato masher | Brady Haran | Science | guardian.co.uk

http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/blog/2011/dec/07/dmitri-mendeleev-business-card

Taking good notes: Tricks and tools |

http://www.theopennotebook.com/2011/12/06/taking-good-notes/

Deepest Trench Now With More Deep | Deep Sea News

http://deepseanews.com/2011/12/deepest-trench-now-with-more-deep/

Air France 447 Flight-Data Recorder Transcript - What Really Happened Aboard Air France 447 - Popular Mechanics

http://www.popularmechanics.com/technology/aviation/crashes/what-really-happened-aboard-air-france-447-6611877

IR remote for DSLR cameras - Hack a Day

http://hackaday.com/2011/12/08/ir-remote-for-dslr-cameras/

Google's Nerdiest Move Ever: Now It's a Graphing Calculator!

http://m.gizmodo.com/5865326/googles-nerdiest-move-ever-now-its-a-graphing-calculator

Bull beware: Truth goggles sniff out suspicious sentences in news » Nieman Journalism Lab

http://www.niemanlab.org/2011/11/bull-beware-truth-goggles-sniff-out-suspicious-sentences-in-news/
What BSD really stands for

The Best Siri Hacks So Far - Technology - The Atlantic Wire

http://www.theatlanticwire.com/technology/2011/11/best-siri-hacks-so-far/45454/

Alejandro Rojas: Ridley Scott's New Alien Movie Influenced by Ancient Astronaut Theory

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/alejandro-rojas/ridley-scotts-new-alien-m_b_1124808.html
Right, another scifi film release has started... we can expect more UFO sitings to be in the news....

BBC iPlayer - Frontline Medicine: Rebuilding Lives

http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b017x01t/Frontline_Medicine_Rebuilding_Lives/

BBC News - The BBC Microcomputer and me, 30 years down the line

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-15969065

Cory Doctorow | carpool | Carpool on blip.tv

http://blip.tv/llewtubevideo/cory-doctorow-carpool-5751408

Horizon:The Core - 2011 HD . 720p | MilkandCookies

http://www.milkandcookies.com/link/277906/detail/

The world's most generic news report - Charlie Brooker's Newswipe - YouTube

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qpVTUdfcEMg

How the English Language Was Developed | MilkandCookies

http://www.milkandcookies.com/link/277437/detail/

Strap yourself in and let this robot arm shake the bejesus out of you - Hack a Day

http://hackaday.com/2011/11/19/strap-yourself-in-and-let-this-robot-arm-shake-the-bejesus-out-of-you/

BBC - BBC Radio 4 Programmes - Click On, Series 9, Episode 6

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b0174dzt#synopsis

Mariana Trench Graphic (Big Jpeg)

http://i.imgur.com/ESp2j.jpg

Driving At 462 MPH Looks Ludicrous From Any Angle

http://m.gizmodo.com/5858936/driving-at-462-mph-looks-ludicrous-from-any-angle

NASA develops super-black material that absorbs light across multiple wavelength bands

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2011/11/111108213055.htm
Cool - Is this what Black Adder had is horse pained this colour?

http://www.sing365.com/music/lyric.nsf/Black-Adder-lyrics-TV-Theme-Songs/BF8AE2272379C29F482572A4000B4593

BBC News - Testicle bite woman Maria Topp given suspended sentence

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-tyne-15689943

230-Ton Airbus A330 Hovering Midair | MilkandCookies

http://www.milkandcookies.com/link/275467/detail/?

BBC News - ARM's new GPU chip design aims to boost mobile graphics

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-15668347

Ben Kacyra: Ancient wonders captured in 3D | Video on TED.com

http://www.ted.com/talks/ben_kacyra_ancient_wonders_captured_in_3d.html?utm_source=feedburner

African Street Art

http://freekoza.com/african-street-art/

Only a Mathematician Could Love the World's Ugliest Music

http://m.gizmodo.com/5856721/only-a-mathematician-could-love-the-worlds-ugliest-music

Robbie Robertson - Somewhere Down The Crazy River - YouTube

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4KP9PNSUME4

Poop Splash Elimination - Smarter Every Day 22 - YouTube

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-XNDM4eAn1U
There are some quite fun videos at Smarter Every Day

via
http://www.milkandcookies.com/link/272397/detail/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+milkandcookieslatest+%28MilkandCookies.com%3A+Latest+Links%29

http://m.matrixsynth.com/2011/10/table-top-midi-trigger-experiment.html?utm_source=twitterfeed&utm_medium=twitter&m=1

Modular Prosthetic Limb - YouTube

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3HsccKwoeOM


via Fark

Neuroskeptic: Is Sleep Brain Defragmentation?

http://neuroskeptic.blogspot.com/2011/08/is-sleep-brain-defragmentation.html

Neuroskeptic: Is Sleep Brain Defragmentation?

http://neuroskeptic.blogspot.com/2011/08/is-sleep-brain-defragmentation.html

Neuroskeptic: Is Sleep Brain Defragmentation?

http://neuroskeptic.blogspot.com/2011/08/is-sleep-brain-defragmentation.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+Neuroskeptic+%28Neuroskeptic%29

An adorable fractal analysis – Boing Boing

http://boingboing.net/2011/10/10/an-adorable-fractal-analysis.html?

Bill Bailey's Remarkable Guide to the Orchestra | MetaFilter

http://www.metafilter.com/107879/Bill-Baileys-Remarkable-Guide-to-the-Orchestra

FORA.tv - David Pogue's iPhone Brain Dump

http://fora.tv/2011/09/17/David_Pogues_iPhone_Brain_Dump

How Did Researchers Manage to Read Movie Clips From the Brain? | 80beats | Discover Magazine

http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/80beats/2011/09/28/how-did-researchers-manage-to-read-movie-clips-from-the-brain/

UC Berkeley Invents Mind Reading Machine Called... | Gather

http://technology.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474980375985

BBC News - Brian Cox on Cern's baffling light-speed find

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-15034852

NASA - NASA Sounds

http://www.nasa.gov/connect/sounds/
As my brother wisely pointed out; They didn't say "Huston, we've had an opportunity"!

How Radiolab is made | MetaFilter

http://www.metafilter.com/107693/How-Radiolab-is-made

This Machine Lets Anyone Draw In Perfect Perspective

http://m.gizmodo.com/5839386/this-machine-lets-anyone-draw-in-perfect-perspective

MagicCube5D | MetaFilter

http://www.metafilter.com/107365/MagicCube5D

FixMyTransport: Report, view and resolve public transport problems

http://www.fixmytransport.com/
Euston, we have a problem

AI vs. AI. Two chatbots talking to each other - YouTube

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WnzlbyTZsQY
also
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IQbYc7qLgBc

via MeFi

Music

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BEG7OzvSMBA

{

Major Tom (Coming Home) Peter Schilling

} http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GsN3icByqUo

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D67kmFzSh_o

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ejJmZHRIzhY

Segway to http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XmSdTa9kaiQ

via

http://www.fark.com/comments/6519044/Artist-turns-David-Bowies-Space-Oddity-into-illustrated-childrens-book-Spoiler-Ending-sure-seems-to-have-a-lot-of-space-dust-in-it?cpp=1

Children’s Hospice South West - Jasper's Walk

http://www.chsw.org.uk/jasperswalk
Please support them, if you can

Pronoun trouble

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LyPFQKpRnd0
I Demand That You Shoot Me Now! - YouTube

My Fave bit is when the duck says "Nugh!" - Cracks me up everytime

World Of Mysteries: Hilarious “I Have No Time to Explain” Posters (12 pics)

http://www.themysteryworld.com/2011/08/hilarious-i-have-no-time-to-explain.html

OK Go ft/ The Muppets: Muppet Show Theme Song | MilkandCookies

http://www.milkandcookies.com/link/263724/detail/

FARK.com: (6493818) Dear FBI super-spies: Do not name your FBI surveillance van's wifi network "FBI SURVEILLANCE VAN"

http://www.fark.com/comments/6493818/Dear-FBI-super-spies-Do-not-name-your-FBI-surveillance-vans-wifi-network-FBI-SURVEILLANCE-VAN?cpp=1

Bulletproof Skin Made From Spider Silk : Discovery News

http://news.discovery.com/tech/bullet-proof-skin-110820.html#mkcpgn=rssnws1

BBC News - IBM produces first 'brain chips'

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-14574747

As U.K. Releases UFO Files, Former UFO Project Chief Apologizes For 'Spin And Dirty Tricks' (Exclusive)

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/08/17/uk-releases-ufo-files_n_927351.html
Coincident with yesterday's
Boing boing Paul Krugman: save the economy by staging an alien invasion hoax
and a film: Cowboys vs Aliens
A perfect BS storm

World Of Mysteries: Boost Your WiFi Signal With A Beer Can (7 pics)

http://www.themysteryworld.com/2011/08/boost-your-wifi-signal-with-beer-can-7.html

Arduino device mutes uninteresting celebrities on TV – Boing Boing

http://boingboing.net/2011/08/16/arduino-device-mutes-unintersting-celebrities-on-tv.html

Fark: Garry Larsen is 61

http://www.fark.com/comments/6476202/Happy-61st-birthday-to-funniest-newspaper-cartoonist-of-all-time-Gary-Larson-From-talking-cows-to-chubby-women-in-beehives-he-brought-absurdity-into-our-homes-Share-your-favorite-cartoons-if-youve-got-em?cpp=1

Dangerous Minds | CAPTCHAs to keep idiots out of comment threads

http://www.dangerousminds.net/comments/captchas_to_keep_idiots_out_of_comment_threads/
Almost HB'd

Gelsight - Surface sensing

http://www.GelSight.com
http://www.gelsight.com/technology/

http://www.thatvideosite.com/video/surface_sensing_with_gelsight

Researchers demo 3D face scanning breakthroughs at SIGGRAPH, Kinect crowd squarely targeted -- Engadget

http://www.engadget.com/2011/08/10/researchers-demo-3d-face-scanning-breakthroughs-at-siggraph-kin/

Hacking QR codes for fun and profit - Hack a Day

http://hackaday.com/2011/08/09/hacking-qr-codes-for-fun-and-profit/

Phantom cam shoots 1 million frames per second – Boing Boing

http://boingboing.net/2011/08/09/phantom-cam-shoots-1-million-frames-per-second.html

Bored by math class, student turns to squiggling – Boing Boing

http://boingboing.net/2011/08/09/bored-by-math-class-student-turns-to-squiggling.html

Asciiflow - ASCII Flow Diagram Tool

http://www.asciiflow.com/

Trickle of Salt Water -- on Mars : Discovery News

http://news.discovery.com/space/mars-salt-water-surface-110804.html#mkcpgn=rssnws1


http://spockisnotimpressed.tumblr.com/

http://www.fark.com/comments/6448709/NASA-find-running-water-on-surface-of-Mars-herd-of-buggalo-drinking-from-it-maybe-not-that-last-part?cpp=1

Hack the Vote 2011 | Electronic Frontier Foundation

http://www.fark.com/cgi/go.pl?i=6447109&l=https://www.eff.org/pages/hack-the-vote-2011

Ted Talks: Julian Treasure: 5 Ways to Listen Better | MilkandCookies

http://www.milkandcookies.com/link/260980/detail/

Hydrogen and Chlorine Reaction | MilkandCookies

http://www.milkandcookies.com/link/260991/detail/

Cat + chemistry + puns = awesome – Boing Boing

http://boingboing.net/2011/07/27/cat-chemistry-puns-awesome.html
My niece showed me this link earlier

I’ve got your missing links right here (23 July 2011) | Not Exactly Rocket Science | Discover Magazine

http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/notrocketscience/2011/07/23/ive-got-your-missing-links-right-here-23-july-2011/
Search Discover Mag for prev articles..

http://discovermagazine.com/search?SearchableText=I%27ve+got+your+missing+links+right+here+&Submit.x=14&Submit.y=4

Anatomy of Norbiton | MetaFilter

http://www.metafilter.com/105811/Anatomy-of-Norbiton

BBC Horizon: The Secret You | MilkandCookies

http://www.milkandcookies.com/link/260067/detail/

Fry on "Star Trek", 42 and Whatnot | MilkandCookies

http://www.milkandcookies.com/link/260077/detail/

Heli Test #1 | MilkandCookies

http://www.milkandcookies.com/link/259988/detail/

Analyzing TV’s talking heads with Processing - Hack a Day

http://hackaday.com/2011/07/19/analyzing-tvs-talking-heads-with-processing/

Curious Sounds: A Radiolab Concert - Radiolab

http://www.radiolab.org/blogs/radiolab-blog/2011/jun/27/curious-sounds/
http://glennkotche.com/

Terry Gilliam: Monty Python animations | MilkandCookies

http://www.milkandcookies.com/link/259413/detail/

Ferromagnetic Objects Meet a 4 T Magnet | MilkandCookies

http://www.milkandcookies.com/link/259196/detail/

NetGear settings Wifi issue

The history of DOS | MetaFilter

http://www.metafilter.com/105367/The-history-of-DOS

Pinocchio's Real Roots Mapped : Discovery News

http://news.discovery.com/history/pinocchio-fictional-home-110708.html#mkcpgn=rssnws1

Harnessing the power of feedback loops - Boing Boing

http://www.boingboing.net/2011/07/07/harnessing-the-power.html

BBC News - Surgeons carry out first synthetic windpipe transplant

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-14047670
THIS!

A Clockwork Miracle - Radiolab

http://www.radiolab.org/blogs/radiolab-blog/2011/jun/14/clockwork-miracle/

Referee Appears Out Of Thin Air. | MilkandCookies

http://www.milkandcookies.com/link/258561/detail/
A hockey referee from the future emerges from a trans-dimensional portal in the middle of a Wings - Hawks game.

With the intergalactic cataclysm averted, the referee returns to the void.

St. Swithin's Day (St Swithun's Day) in England

http://www.woodlands-junior.kent.sch.uk/customs/stswithun.html

Scale of Universe - Interactive Scale of the Universe Tool

http://www.primaxstudio.com/stuff/scale_of_universe/
via http://www.milkandcookies.com/link/257984/detail/

Dramatic Diet 'Reverses' Type 2 Diabetes : Discovery News

http://news.discovery.com/human/type-2-diabetes-reversible.html

Paul Nicklen: Tales of ice-bound wonderlands | Video on TED.com

http://www.ted.com/talks/paul_nicklen_tales_of_ice_bound_wonderlands.html
From around 11:00 - but worth watching it all
Terrible Title: Face-Off With a Deadly Predator ()
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zxa6P73Awcg

The Writer Who Couldn't Read : Krulwich Wonders… : NPR

http://www.npr.org/blogs/krulwich/2011/06/01/127745750/the-writer-who-couldnt-read
A repository of handy radiolab links

Nikon shows off concept cameras in France, says hello to tomorrow -- Engadget

http://www.engadget.com/2011/06/28/nikon-shows-off-concept-cameras-in-france-says-hello-to-tomorro/

Video: UFOs spotted over London? - Telegraph

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/howaboutthat/ufo/8599547/UFOs-spotted-over-London.html
Designed to coincide with China's visit?

Solar powered 3D printer creates glass objects out of sand | MetaFilter

http://www.metafilter.com/104937/Solar-powered-3D-printer-creates-glass-objects-out-of-sand

Piano Extravaganza - Walkürenritt (Ride of the Valkyries)

Remember that bloke who said we're all gonna die? Yeah, well about that...

http://news.discovery.com/space/visualizing-asteroid-2011-md-zip-past-earth-animation-110624.html#mkcpgn=rssnws1
When Asteroid '2011 MD' Zips Past Earth : Animation : Discovery News

Rube Goldberg machine parks a car! | MilkandCookies

http://www.milkandcookies.com/link/256860/detail/

New rankings of world's fastest supercomputers released: Japan, China, US take top three spots - Boing Boing

http://www.boingboing.net/2011/06/20/new-rankings-of-worl.html

Selective attention: More than just missing the man in the gorilla suit - Boing Boing

http://www.boingboing.net/2011/06/20/selective-attention.html

How hangovers work - Boing Boing

http://www.boingboing.net/2011/06/20/how-hangovers-work.html

BBC News - London Marathon snail crawl man Lloyd Scott sacked

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-london-13751871
Now that's just pouring salt on his wounds

YouTube - ‪The Crazy Nastyass Honey Badger (original narration by Randall)‬‏ (NSFW)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4r7wHMg5Yjg

Magnetism makes silly putty fun again - Hack a Day

http://hackaday.com/2011/06/10/magnetism-makes-silly-putty-fun-again

Authorship - Webmaster Tools Help

http://www.google.com/support/webmasters/bin/answer.py?answer=1229920
via

Will Author Markup Help Google's Scraper Problem?

BBC News - Are children becoming 'digitally illiterate'?

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/programmes/click_online/9503255.stm

BBC News - Quantum mechanics rule 'bent' in classic experiment

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-13626587

Exam board apologises over impossible maths AS-level question | Education | guardian.co.uk

http://www.guardian.co.uk/education/2011/jun/02/exam-board-apologises-impossible-maths-question

NVIDIA's quad-core Kal-El used to demo next-gen mobile graphics, blow minds (video) -- Engadget

http://www.engadget.com/2011/05/29/nvidias-quad-core-kal-el-used-to-demo-next-gen-mobile-graphics

Mathematical Card Trick video clip - Cool videos - BoomClips.com

http://www.boomclips.com/videos.aspx/video~mathematical_card_trick/Mathematical_Card_Trick/Cool_videos/

Cool videos

64-bit OS written entirely in assembly - Hack a Day

http://hackaday.com/2011/05/27/64-bit-os-written-entirely-in-assembly/

OECD Better Life Initiative. Just sayin'

http://www.oecdbetterlifeindex.org/#/00000000000

1961, a bunch of guys dressed like accountants make some great music

http://www.milkandcookies.com/link/253772/detail/
Dave Brubeck Take five in 1961

Microsoft Mathematics CAS | MetaFilter

http://www.metafilter.com/103801/Microsoft-Mathematics-CAS
Something free from M$?
Perhaps the chap used it to estimate the Rapture date... or the world reallt is about to e...

BBC News - Is graphene a miracle material?

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/programmes/click_online/9491789.stm

WeatherSpark | Interactive Weather Charts

http://weatherspark.com/
via
Boing Boing

Android Adds USB Host + Audio, Open Hardware ADK with Arduino; Good News for Mobile Music

http://createdigitalmusic.com/2011/05/android-adds-usb-host-mode-open-hardware-development-with-arduino/

Bye Bye Comet! [HD Video] | Flickr - Photo Sharing!

http://www.flickr.com/photos/gsfc/5715631317/in/photostream

Reinventing Magnetic Core Memory | MetaFilter

http://www.metafilter.com/103415/Reinventing-Magnetic-Core-Memory

Why The New Guy Can’t Code

http://techcrunch.com/2011/05/07/why-the-new-guy-cant-code/

Hidden cognitive costs of doing stuff - Boing Boing

http://www.boingboing.net/2011/05/06/hidden-cognitive-cos.html

MetaFilter -The On-Line Encyclopedia of Integer Sequences

http://www.metafilter.com/103187/The-Discrete-Charm-of-the-1-1-2-3-5-8
The Discrete Charm of the 1, 1, 2, 3, 5, 8, ... |

Introducing Scanimate | MetaFilter

http://www.metafilter.com/103161/Introducing-Scanimate

Frostylock's Bakery

http://www.frostylocksbakery.blogspot.com/
This genius made my niece's 21st Birthday Cake. "Nom Skull" (My niece is reading Neuropsychology at Preston) [BEAM!]

It was not only did it look fantastic (pictured), it tasted amazing, too! A work of (very tasty) art :)

I'd recommend Frostylock's Bakery to anyone

Robot Catches Two Baseballs With Amazing Precision : Discovery News

http://news.discovery.com/tech/robot-catches-baseballs-with-amazing-precision-110429.html#mkcpgn=rssnws1

BBC covers an old-school hacker - Hack a Day

http://hackaday.com/2011/04/29/bbc-covers-an-old-school-hacker/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+hackaday%2FLgoM+%28Hack+a+Day%29

Science Fiction Timeline of Inventions (Listed by Publication Date)

http://www.technovelgy.com/ct/ctnlistPubDate.asp?BPDate1=1700&BPDate2=2020
http://www.boingboing.net/2011/04/26/timeline-of-science.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+boingboing%2FiBag+%28Boing+Boing%29

Innovation and the unexpected: an impassioned rant - Boing Boing

http://www.boingboing.net/2011/04/25/innovation-and-the-u.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+boingboing%2FiBag+%28Boing+Boing%29

Solar power without solar cells: A hidden magnetic effect of light could make it possible

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2011/04/110414161404.htm

Camera software learns to pick you out of a crowd - Hack a Day

http://hackaday.com/2011/04/21/camera-software-learns-to-pick-you-out-of-a-crowd/

Isn't this the same "Moon" mentioned on QI, years ago?

http://www.arm.ac.uk/press/2011/aac_horseshoe_orbit.html

FARK.com: (6122164) UK posts info about US and UK nuclear submarines but redacts all sensitive information. And by 'redacts' I mean highlights the secret stuff in black, so you can just paste it into Word and read it

http://www.fark.com/comments/6122164
People aren't still doing this, are they?
(I could have sworn I'd posted something about this years ago)

BBC News - Mind tricks may help arthritic pain

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-13068924
via
http://derrenbrown.co.uk/blog/2011/04/mind-tricks-arthritic-pain/

The origin of CTRL-ALT-DELETE - Hack a Day

http://hackaday.com/2011/04/15/the-origin-of-ctrl-alt-delete/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+hackaday%2FLgoM+%28Hack+a+Day%29

A Letter to Chris - A book by a friend

http://www.ALetterToChris.com
A friend has written and self-published a book
()
This is his website:http://www.ALetterToChris.com

Magic goop scoop - Boing Boing

http://www.boingboing.net/2011/04/11/magic-goop-scoop.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+boingboing%2FiBag+%28Boing+Boing%29

How magnets affect the human brain - Boing Boing

http://www.boingboing.net/2011/04/11/how-magnets-affect-t.html

Venice, how does it work? | MetaFilter

http://www.metafilter.com/102189/Venice-how-does-it-work

Where's the path ?

http://wtp2.appspot.com/wheresthepath.htm

Dog has the dye of the tiger | Orange UK

http://web.orange.co.uk/article/quirkies/Dog_has_dye_of_the_tiger
April fool?

Short_ST_WarpDrive_screen[1].mov

"Star Trek
Hot Chick
Condom
Nerd"

http://www.boingboing.net/2011/03/29/warp-drive-in-real-l.html

How a differential gear works - Boing Boing

http://www.boingboing.net/2011/03/30/how-a-differential-g.html

The Brain Our Universe Within::Evolution | MilkandCookies

http://www.milkandcookies.com/link/246877/detail/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+milkandcookieslatest+%28MilkandCookies.com%3A+Latest+Links%29

Why pubs are on track to open in 'ghost stations' - Home News, UK - The Independent

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/why-pubs-are-on-track-to-open-in-ghost-stations-2252465.html

Universal property of music discovered

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2011/03/110325102008.htm

Cell phone recycling

http://www.eoearth.org/article/Cell_phone_recycling?topic=49558
I'd been chatting to a friend about the value of the materials in old cell phones - he doug this article up

Video Experimenter Shield - Hack a Day

http://hackaday.com/2011/03/24/video-experimenter-shield/

now for the science bit

http://www.nowforthesciencebit.com/
via
http://www.boingboing.net/2011/03/25/now-for-the-science.html

World Science Festival Video : Spotlight: Do Not Touch the Frog

http://wsf.tv/videos/spotlight_do_not_touch_the_frog
Reminds me of Bill Bryson


via http://www.metafilter.com/101853/This-frog-knows-no-fear

Terapixel images and see-through cameras: Real or Fake? - Hack a Day

http://hackaday.com/2011/03/22/terapixel-images-and-see-through-cameras-real-or-fake/

Want to explaind the Solar System to someone? | MetaFilter

http://www.metafilter.com/101769/Want-to-explaind-the-Solar-System-to-someone

Anaconda - http://127.0.0.1:8080

http://127.0.0.1:8080

10 Things You Didn't Know About the Moon | Moon Photos, Moon Facts | Space & Solar System Facts & Information | Space.com

http://www.space.com/11162-10-surprising-moon-facts-full-moons.html

Dr. Peter Venkman: This city is headed for a disaster of biblical proportions.

From: Ghost Busters

Dr. Peter Venkman: This city is headed for a disaster of biblical proportions.
Mayor: What do you mean, "biblical"?
Dr Ray Stantz: What he means is Old Testament, Mr. Mayor, real wrath of God type stuff.
Dr. Peter Venkman: Exactly.
Dr Ray Stantz: Fire and brimstone coming down from the skies! Rivers and seas boiling!
Dr. Egon Spengler: Forty years of darkness! Earthquakes, volcanoes...
Winston Zeddemore: The dead rising from the grave!
Dr. Peter Venkman: Human sacrifice, dogs and cats living together... mass hysteria!
Mayor: All right, all right! I get the point!

It's Not Your Imagination: The Number Of Disasters Just Keeps Rising

Sperm Whales Found to Announce Themselves by a Personal Identifer (or Name!) 

Barbary macaques recognise photos of their friends

Roboroaches: Students Prepare to Control Roaches With Remote-Control Brains

http://www.aolnews.com/2011/03/15/roboroaches-students-prepare-to-control-roaches-with-remote-con/

MIT Researcher records 90,000 hours of home video, analyzes the hell out of it - Boing Boing

http://www.boingboing.net/2011/03/16/mit-researcher-recor.html

FARK.com: (6037294) Causality-Violating Higgs singlets discovered tomorrow at the LHC

http://www.fark.com/comments/6037294/Causality-Violating-Higgs-singlets-discovered-tomorrow-at-LHC?cpp=1
One day, all new papers will look like Fark
{I love the Geordi LaForge anno}

London's Unfinished Ringways | MetaFilter

http://www.metafilter.com/101530/Londons-Unfinished-Ringways

WeatherSpark | Interactive Weather Charts

http://weatherspark.com/
via
http://www.metafilter.com/101412/Weather-Visualization-better-than-the-window

Violin Virtuoso | MilkandCookies

http://www.milkandcookies.com/link/244769/detail/

An Unknown Ocean: The Other Rhythms of Life | Wired Science | Wired.com

http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/2011/03/marine-rhythms/
http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2011/03/06/an-eclipse-from-space-with-a-two-way-moon/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+BadAstronomyBlog+%28Bad+Astronomy%29

http://www.universetoday.com/83653/video-whats-up-for-march/

Stars, Planets, satellites, Circles, rotation, cycles, beats,

Amateur snaps astronaut on spacewalk | Skymania News and Guide

http://skymania.com/wp/2011/03/amateur-snaps-astronaut-on-spacewalk.html

I wonder if there's anything linking these 2 stories

Forensics 'safe in private hands'

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-12627754

New post-mortem method developed

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-12616550

A Flock of Two - Radiolab

http://www.radiolab.org/blogs/radiolab-blog/2011/feb/22/flock-two/

static void wake_up_dreamer(struct dreamer_attr *dattr, int level) | MetaFilter

http://www.metafilter.com/100841/static-void-wakeupdreamerstruct-dreamerattr-dattr-int-level

YouTube - Road Runner 3D: Coyote Falls

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bZbvTxJEiKU
Oh please let it be true!

At last! Someone to take up the mantle from Sir David Attenborough

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=youtube_gdata_player&v=GEokQpZLgZ8
YouTube The Crazy Nastyass Honey Badger

I'd watch more nature programmes if the narration was more like this (strong language in places, but funny!)

Which A-Levels should you study if you want to get into a top university? - Tom Hartley

http://tomhartley.posterous.com/which-a-levels-should-you-study-if-you-want-t

Brain Car Interface - Hack a Day - TopGear?

http://hackaday.com/2011/02/18/brain-car-interface/
Don't let the TopGear boys find out

Measure earth’s rotation with PlayStation Move - Hack a Day

http://hackaday.com/2011/02/19/measure-earths-rotation-with-playstation-move/

Free (…as in ‘free beer’) ARM kit - Hack a Day

http://hackaday.com/2011/02/19/free-as-in-free-beer-arm-kit/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+hackaday%2FLgoM+%28Hack+a+Day%29

Trompe L'oeil | MilkandCookies

http://www.milkandcookies.com/link/242387/detail/

Learning the Alien Language of Dolphins | Science Not Fiction | Discover Magazine

http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/sciencenotfiction/2011/02/18/learning-the-alien-language-of-dolphins/
Pha loves Pa!

DIY PIC development board and web server - Hack a Day

http://hackaday.com/2011/02/12/diy-pic-development-board-and-web-server/

IBM’s Watson Trivia Challenge - Interactive Feature - NYTimes.com

http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2010/06/16/magazine/watson-trivia-game.html
http://www.govtech.com/e-government/Watson-Jeopardy-Computer-021011.html

Ooze around the maze | Science | Fortean Times

http://www.forteantimes.com/strangedays/science/5122/ooze_around_the_maze.html
I was always confused by a couple of sections of Bill Bryson's A Short History Of Nearly Everything

Where he mentions slime moulds. The stuff he'd said about them surprised me, and I wondered why I'd not heard more about them... till now, that is

ba dum ba dom ba doom BOOM BAM BAM | MetaFilter

http://www.metafilter.com/100458/ba-dum-ba-dom-ba-doom-BOOM-BAM-BAM
Personally, I prefer these tracks (Not that I think he's a particularly talented drummer)

I don't care anymore -



Take me home -

{Not that it contains a lot of real I can never help myself from singing along, and mean stuff to me.}

Reverse Engineering the Human Brain --The ultimate hack: Reverse engineering the human brain By Larry Greenemeier in 60-Second Science Blog-- credits to Scientific American - TechDIMWIT

http://www.techdimwit.com/1/post/2009/09/reverse-engineering-the-human-brain-the-ultimate-hack-reverse-engineering-the-human-brain-by-larry-greenemeier-in-60-second-science-blog-credits-to-scientific-american.html

Lab3 - Laboratory for Experimental Computer Science

http://interface.khm.de/index.php/lab/experiments/arduino-dds-sinewave-generator/
I wonder if Bresenham's circle algo would be faster/more efficient?

This week, I have been mostly working on… — Laser Harps, Tesla Coils, and Killer Space Robots

http://www.stephenhobley.com/blog/

Causal vs. Effectual Thinkers in Business | MetaFilter

http://www.metafilter.com/100426/Causal-vs-Effectual-Thinkers-in-Business

Steven Pinker: Language as a Window into Human Nature | MilkandCookies

http://www.milkandcookies.com/link/241154/detail/

Language of Numbers in Nicaraguan Sign Language | MetaFilter

http://www.metafilter.com/100431/Language-of-Numbers-in-Nicaraguan-Sign-Language

Slashdot: Mars Zap-and-sniff

http://science.slashdot.org/story/11/02/10/0345253/NASA-Invents-New-Technique-For-Finding-Alien-Life
NASA Invents New Technique For Finding Alien Life - Slashdot

Nokia's chief executive to staff: 'we are standing on a burning platform' | Technology | guardian.co.uk

http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/blog/2011/feb/09/nokia-burning-platform-memo-elop
FYI Juce - by Rawmaterial Software ( C++, Cross platform:Linux, Win, OSX, iOS) is adding Android to its number

WWF launches PDF-like file format that can't be printed | Damian Carrington | Environment | guardian.co.uk

http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/damian-carrington-blog/2011/feb/09/wwf-pdf-file-format-printed
WOM

BBC News - Bloodhound car 'to inspire engineers'

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-12388170
What. A. Guy!

ZigBee dominoes all fall down (Gadget Master)

http://www.electronicsweekly.com/blogs/gadget-master/2011/02/zigbee-dominoes-all-fall-down.html

ZigBee dominoes all fall down (Gadget Master)

http://www.electronicsweekly.com/blogs/gadget-master/2011/02/zigbee-dominoes-all-fall-down.html

Metropolitan Police Service - Fraud Alert

http://www.met.police.uk/fraudalert/

Not NSFW if you don't play the Dusk Till Dawn Vid

Winepeg Midnight Cat Madness Dusk Till Dawn - Full Pussy Scene

BBC News - DreamWorks CEO denies 3D TV safety risk

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/programmes/click_online/9379675.stm
The Closing sentences of this interview... erm, what abount when the thing gets released to DVD (DDDVD?) and kinds are plonked infront of 3DTVs for hours on end to keep'em quiet (which, my view, seems to happen a lot in)

My best is 802.3 | MetaFilter

http://www.metafilter.com/100018/My-best-is-8023

DSCF0002.AVI

Exploding an AVR - Hack a Day

http://hackaday.com/2011/01/27/exploding-an-avr/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+hackaday%2FLgoM+%28Hack+a+Day%29

Machine balances pencil on its tip - Boing Boing

http://www.boingboing.net/2011/01/21/machine-balances-pen.html

Scientists aim to bring mammoth back to life

http://www.physorg.com/news/2011-01-scientists-aim-mammoth-life.html
With the Japanese love of killing large mammals to/from extinction "for scientific research"...


Where do I get my Wooly Mammoth hunting license? (Their title, my sentiment)


Also wik
Jurassic Park Theme (1000% Slower) - Just beautiful
http://soundcloud.com/birdfeeder/jurassic-park-theme-1000-slower

Also, also wik

BBC News - Pioneering Edsac computer to be built at Bletchley Park

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-12181153

Prompapompom

BREAKING NEWS: 'Unusual smell' forces Tooting Broadway Tube station to close (From Your Local Guardian)

http://www.yourlocalguardian.co.uk/news/local/wandsworthnews/8789678.BREAKING_NEWS___Unusual_smell__forces_Tube_stop_closure/
Oh no, not again...

Google Body - Google Labs

http://bodybrowser.googlelabs.com/
...but you need a Web browser that supports WebGL.

PIC spectrum analyzer uses Fast Fourier Transform routine - Hack a Day

http://hackaday.com/2011/01/08/pic-spectrum-analyzer-uses-fast-fourier-transform-routine/
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=EJiUaGdABmI

Tara's sponsored walk - Net proceeds from the Komen 3-Day for the Cure are invested in breast cancer research and community programs.

Start:	Jul 29, '11 09:00a
End:	Jul 31, '11
Location:	Somewhere USian

Tara's Sponsorship Page
Please help support her if you can.

Teaching Computer Science without Computers | MetaFilter

http://www.metafilter.com/99319/Teaching-Computer-Science-without-Computers

"Mind's Eye": DARPA's New Thinking Camera Will Transform the World of Surveillance

http://www.dailygalaxy.com/my_weblog/2011/01/minds-eye-darpas-new-thinking-camera-will-transform-the-world-of-surveillance.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+TheDailyGalaxyNewsFromPlanetEarthBeyond+%28The+Daily+Galaxy%3A+News+from+Planet+Earth+%26+Beyond%29

Ted Talks: Deborah Rhodes: A Tool That Finds 3X More Breast Tumors, and Why it's Not Available to You | MilkandCookies

http://www.milkandcookies.com/link/236348/detail/

Major spambot attack - Don't click your guests latest guest's video if you've had one posted

BBC News - Microsoft shows Windows running on mobile phone chips (not a repeat from 1995!)

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-12124887
Erm... I think they're a bit lat with that one
http://www.khantazi.org/Power/Acorn/RISCOS.html

Don't look if you like QI

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_common_misconceptions
List of common misconceptions - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

via MeFi
http://www.metafilter.com/99230/A-list-of-common-misconceptions

BBC News - Gerry Rafferty dies at age of 63

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-glasgow-west-12115604


:( i Thanks for the music, Gerry

How to stay safe at a public Wi-Fi hotspot

http://arstechnica.com/security/guides/2011/01/stay-safe-at-a-public-wi-fi-hotspot.ars

January 4, 2011 – Partial Solar Eclipse Reminder

http://www.universetoday.com/82099/january-4-2011-partial-solar-eclipse-reminder/

Cell Phone Endurance Tests - Hack a Day

http://hackaday.com/2011/01/01/cell-phone-endurance-tests/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+hackaday%2FLgoM+%28Hack+a+Day%29