Today’s bookmarks
Fri, 21 Dec 2012
- Whoa, now the KKK are also fighting against Westboro Baptist
- “We still look at ourselves as survivors”: over 80 years later, remembering the deadliest school massacre in American history
- The rather interesting origin story of ‘Miranda Rights’
- Warren Ellis on The Social Web: end of the first cycle (stoked it’s close to what I’ve been mediating on throughout the year)
- UCL research paper on Why the Internet only just works (.pdf)
- What the world will look like in 2030 — as predicted by the Government
- Will we ever… have cyborg brains?
- A few Tolkien-rific facts about the book version of The Hobbit
- Try this interactive/zoomable four BILLION pixel image of Mt Everest
- Earthmoving: Ways of moving the Earth’s orbital path
Lastly, the latest TEDEd on ‘What is colour’ gives a very concise and simple explanation on the how with some very nice animation too.
Replacing guns in movie stills with Nintendo Zappers
With two prior DUIs, David Wheaton led cops along highways around western and northern Houston, at one point reaching 92 mph, the official limit for the micro-vehicle. Eventually Wheaton drove all the way to his driveway, where police arrested him without fuss.