Linkfest

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Wired had these fantastic views of glaciers from space. Looking the other way, the Discovery Channel had this image of the Milky Way which is pretty neat.

Still on the Disco channel, they had this article about Glacier retreat, which The Grauniad frets is driving polar ice loss. Google, meanwhile, are getting ready for COP15 with this post about their climate modeller that sits atop Google Earth.

In pet news, here's The Times to tell us of the world's 10 richest pets evidently living the kind of lifestyles to which I suspect Mali would very much wish to become accustomed. I know that there are all sorts of reasons why one shouldn't find domestication of wild cats over generations appealing, but I do like Savannah cats. I do firmly believe that you need a proper area of land (of the type that you bequeath, rather than rent) for them to play in, though. So not in this life for this f0x, no. The Guardian's picspam for Dog Photographer 2009 is here, but the entrants were drawn from the slightly more expansive Flickr group. And it's kind of touching, that you see the dogs trying so hard, but I'm not sure they can compete with this cat cafe in Osaka for sheer indulgence.

The NHS has a collection of Health Tools here - I've tried the BMI calculator, which suggests that I'm about the right weight for my height, but I suspect the effort lacks sophistication. However, there are other things there to play with, so worth a look if you've a moment.

The Torygraph treated us to a gallery of Calaveras: skeleton prints produced for the Day of the Dead, and also this rather surreal collision of miniature people and food. Huh.

These driftwood sculptures of horses by Heather Jansch are either beautiful or... slightly disturbing. I've been trying to find the collection of Sydney Dust Storm images, and think that maybe The Times takes the prize this time. The not guaranteed worksafe Bored Panda posted 30 LEGO recreations of famous photographs which is pretty cool (and safe). Off the same site, 33 of the world's strangest buildings (also safe).

Some infographics for you: The World's Most Important Drugs and The Death of the Newspaper. Susanna Hertich has this awesome Reality Checking Device, which is over at her website http://susannahertrich.com and over at InformationIsBeautiful (which gave me the Hertrich link) we have Disease Case Fatalities.

I don't normally read Cute Overload, OK? So, obviously, I came across this huge rubber duckie completely by accident. Honest.

Elsewhere (at The Huffington Post to be precise), concern is growing that Matthew McConaughey is unable to stand upright unaided (cinema posters provided as documentary evidence).

I like Daft Punk - they make some awesome stuff, and Harder, Better, Faster, Stronger has that certain je ne sais quoi about it that manages to put a smile on just about anyone's face. Kinda limited, lyrically, though, but that has enabled 'Daft Hands' to write the words on their, uh, hands, and kind of sign the lyrics as the song plays. Bizarre, but oddly impressive (give it some time to get into the wordy bit).

Comments

[uninvitedcat]

I vote the driftwood horses beautiful, but they do put me in mind of how I pictured the skeletal horse in Silver On The Tree by Susan Cooper.

[slowfox]

I thought at first they were beautiful, but there's still something slightly disturbing about them... as you say, they're kinda skeletal.

[cynthia_black]

They're rather like how I imagine Thestrals to be

[slowfox]

Yes! Exactly! There's something slightly... sinister/anatomical about them, anyway.

[glittertine]

The daft hands thing is curiously cool. :D

[slowfox]

I liked it, although I concede that it's a slow start - it's when the lyrics really pick up pace that you start to wonder just how long they spent rehearsing!

[linaelyn]

Excellent links, as always. This week, I was most impressed by the glacier photos, articles on glacier retreat, and the wild-cat hybrids.

And the Matthew McConaughy news is troubling, indeed. LOL.

[slowfox]

The wild-cat hybrids are awesome... even though I know it's kinda wrong to confess to finding such things cool.

And the Matthew McConaughy news was genius - I wonder if he's been engineering the thing on the sly, waiting for someone to notice. Obviously, all eyes will be on his next movie poster... could this thing become some kind of complex in-joke?

[aome]

Am amused by the Cat Cafe concept. Love the dog photos. Baffled by people leaving their millions to animals. Cracking up over the Matthew McConaughey thing. Thanks as always for providing this entertainment service. :D

[slowfox]

I do make a conscious effort, these days, to look for things that might be of interest to people, and actively bookmark stuff so that I can return to it for the Saturday post. But it's hardly a hardship checking out interesting/stupid/entertaining stuff on them thar interwebz.

Just glad that some of you actually like the posts, rather than spinning the scroll wheel to zoom on to the next entry of substance on your reading list! :-P