Dancey! says the wee beastie, carefully inserting a CD into the stereo. Dancey!
From many people – a fascinating and funny short film of a depressingly plausible high-tech future
Top voice actors do a readthrough of the entirety of Star Wars
The scale of the universe (via lots of people)
The Easter Island statues go deeper than I expected. The photo of an excavation here is amazing.
Photographic essay on the extraction industry around the Canadian oil sands. I found this really fascinating.
If you understand coding even a tiny little bit you will enjoy learning about Objectivist C
Via Ian Hicks: the world’s subways are converging on an ideal track layout
Teachers secretly dance behind students. (The first 30 seconds gives you all you need.) (via MrsMeows)
Heck of an argument for Scottish independence. One strand says that successive UK Parliaments have broken their contract with their citizens, and it’s time to get out of what has become an abusive relationship.
There is officially a cthulhu wasp (via Theremina)
Vintage children’s books my kid loves (via Kate Beaton)
The Roman Empire: travel times revealed in an incredible interactive tool.
Courtesy Dave McCormack, an entertaining judgment. (I imagine that in those legal TV shows where the judges are always pithy and sarcastic, all the written judgments are like this one.)
How a book is born: interesting infographic
And finally, a genuine treasure: goon show radio
Oh no… They broke Life 🙁
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Re the Cthulu wasp – me and my friend Hayley tried to start up the use of “cthulu” as a verb – as in, “oh my god, he totally cthulued it!” ie, ruined/destroyed/obliterated. It hasn’t taken off yet but I still have hope – what do you think? 🙂