Grab bag of links
1. How to make a bug out bag -- if a natural disaster hit your city and you had to "bug out" for a few days or a few weeks, do you have what you'd need? This article about how to put together your kit is interesting, even if I find it way overblown.
2. Like and dislike stamps -- for those of you who don't get enough of Facebook when you're online.
3. Feynman: Rules of chess (3-minute video) -- physicist Richard Feynman has a lovely analogy about scientific discovery being like discovering the rules of chess.
4. Musical Rube Goldberg (3-minute video) -- yes, it's an ad. But it's brilliant anyway. I want one in my living room, but my living room would probably need to be several hundred meters long.
5. Google Exodus (2-minute video) -- in the same vein as "Social Media Nativity," which I posted around Christmas, this is a cute video about how the Exodus might have played out in the age of social media.
6. How much is a dragon worth? -- how did Forbes come up with their list of the wealthiest fictional characters in the world? Go behind the scenes and see how they calculated the net worth of Smaug from The Hobbit. Fun stuff.
7. A gentlemen's duel (5-minute video) -- have you ever wondered what would happen if Victorians got into a duel over a lady, and decided to fight it out... in Steampunk giant robots? Wonder no more!
2. Like and dislike stamps -- for those of you who don't get enough of Facebook when you're online.
3. Feynman: Rules of chess (3-minute video) -- physicist Richard Feynman has a lovely analogy about scientific discovery being like discovering the rules of chess.
4. Musical Rube Goldberg (3-minute video) -- yes, it's an ad. But it's brilliant anyway. I want one in my living room, but my living room would probably need to be several hundred meters long.
5. Google Exodus (2-minute video) -- in the same vein as "Social Media Nativity," which I posted around Christmas, this is a cute video about how the Exodus might have played out in the age of social media.
6. How much is a dragon worth? -- how did Forbes come up with their list of the wealthiest fictional characters in the world? Go behind the scenes and see how they calculated the net worth of Smaug from The Hobbit. Fun stuff.
7. A gentlemen's duel (5-minute video) -- have you ever wondered what would happen if Victorians got into a duel over a lady, and decided to fight it out... in Steampunk giant robots? Wonder no more!