Hot art for a hot monday.
Ok, this is great. Cuttlefish embryos learn what the hell they are going to kill and eat before they are born. (via) These guys are so bad ass, they haven’t even hatched yet and they’re seeing what’s tasty. You can read the piece and learn about some kind of sciencey [...]

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Super cool, not one but two people climbed the New York Times building yesterday! The first one, Alain Robert (aka the French Spiderman) climbed to bring publicity to global warming. Or for the adrenaline rush, since he climbed without roping in or anything. Y’know, one or the other. Shortly after that some copycat dude from [...]

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You know, there’s a real value in online community, especially when that online community spreads offline. This story is completely wicked awesome and a little bit of faith in humanity restoring, y’know? So this biker had his fixed gear bike, a distinctive one, stolen. (via) Step 1, immediately report all details to the online community. [...]

Categories: breakfast links · nyc

Ok, first up check out this security cam footage of a guy just losing it on his cubicle mates. I mean, he LOSES it, throwing monitors at people, throwing cubicle dividers at people, throwing… paper… at people… Not one person until someone, who I presume to be security, walks in the door and finally gets [...]

Categories: animals · breakfast links · movies · sci-fi

Save Joss Whedon’s Dollhouse! Wait. What? It isn’t even on and isn’t in danger of being cancelled, why are people already organizing a campaign to save the show? Well, primarily because nerds (and I include myself here, just so you know) are crazy. Ostensibly (and perhaps reasonably) because the networks hate good shows (see Firefly [...]

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Monday or Art? Both!
So… a 75-year old guy just climbed Mt. Everest. (via) And he’s the second oldest person in the world to do so. The 76 year old that claimed the title got there the day before he did. What up with old people? Someone give them extra wheaties? This gives me extra hope [...]

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Aiight, boys and grrrls. Get ready for this one. In that crazy, dangerous world just south of down under in New Zealand, a kiwi man (that’s kiwi cause that’s what they call NZ’ers, not because he was half man/half fruit) was arrested for assault. (via) But wait, this terrible crime was perpetrated with the help [...]

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You know you always wanted your car to belch flame from the exhaust - don’t try and deny it, it even ranked above wanting spinning rims and ground effects light under the car. I know you. Well here is your chance, check out Autoloc’s flame thrower kit! (via) This thing cranks fire out (and smoke [...]

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Today’s tubebits from sf signal provided a cornucopia of interesting links. Take, for example, this list of the top 10 Most Unjustly Canacelled Series This Decade. Which of course leads with Firefly, seconded by Angel. Honestly, I can’t remember what I thought of Angel ending. I probably was pretty upset. The list gets a little [...]

Categories: art · breakfast links · sci-fi · tv

Oh, America. Sometimes you’re so stupid. Take, for instance, the fact that our schools are now arguing that any score less than 50 should be raised to 50. (via) It is so awesome that rather than deciding to improve our educational system by, you know, teaching kids better, they’ve decided that perhaps if they [...]

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