Bookmarks for February 6th 2009
Links for February 6th 2009
- Bear Hugs: $2 – Neatorama – Zookeepers in Cairo are charging visitors to actually go inside the animal cages. Hugging bears, feeding crocodiles, pestering seals and provoking lions can all be achieved for under ten bucks!
- YouTube – R2S2 – The Steam Powered R2D2 Robot from Crabfu – Crabfu SteamWorks built a really awesome, steam powered R2D2 robot they call "R2S2".
- Trylon Viper – Inspired by the Colonial Viper from Battlestar Galactica the Trylon Viper can seat two.
- Sci-Fi Channel: Lagoon, Zombie, Aliens – Three posters for the Sci-Fi Channel, spoofing popular horror and science fiction tropes.
- Zuse Z3 at the Deutsches Museum « pagetable.com – The Z3 by Konrad Zuse was the world’s first working digital Turing-complete computer. It did floating point arithmetic, had two registers accessible to the programmer, was microcoded, and clocked at about 5 Hz.
- Pimp my browser: how to turn Firefox into a blogging machine – Ars Technica – Firefox's rich add-on ecosystem allows us to bend the browser to our will and deck it out with features to do almost anything. If you are a blogger, there are quite a few add-ons that can turn Firefox into a great tool for drafting posts, saving Web snippets, finding topical content, and more.
- Wonderland: Playstation soap – Hand made with olive oil, and shaped like a playstation controller.
- Robin Hood’s "Oo De Lally," Translated Into 13 Languages – Waxy.org – There's something enchanting about these localized versions of Roger Miller's "Oo De Lally" from Disney's Robin Hood from 1973.
- StarWars.com | Checklist: 10 Star Wars Superweapons – the past 30 years of Star Wars storytelling has become a graveyard littered with the carcasses of unthinkable superweapons. Well, maybe not too unthinkable, since the bad guys keep coming up with them. Here's a primer on some of the doomsday devices that have plagued our heroes since '77.
- Topless Robot – The 12 Best UFOs That Ever Invaded Movie Screens – In the mid-1940s and the 1950s, scores of people began to report seeing mysterious flying discs in the sky. It could have been mass hysteria caused by the trauma of going through one massive war and the fear of another, but Hollywood was happy to capitalize on the paranoia. Aliens ships descended on the cinema and have continued blowing up Washington, D.C. to this day. Here are the 12 best UFOs that have ever invaded movie screens.
- Top 10 Things You Didn’t Know About Pornography – The List Universe – Erotica has existed since man first was able to think. A once large industry has now burst out as a giant in entertainment due to the Internet. Most people with access to the net has seen pornography either intentionally or accidentally. This list takes a look at some of the more obscure facts surrounding pornography.
- The Top 10 Songs That Killed Hip-Hop – Hip-hop just may be the most popular music genre on the face of the planet and for good reason. It’s raw, real and unpredictable. But in recent years the music revolution that started in New York over twenty five years ago has been dying a slow death. For some reason, wannabe hip-hop artists with little talent have decided to pervert the genre by manufacturing bubblegum garbage for the masses. If hip-hop isn’t dead yet, it is definitely in critical condition.
