Interesting Links for 20-09-2012

[andrewducker]

• Today's XKCD as a zoomable map.
  (tags: awesome map xkcd )
• Slow-motion dog on a trampoline. I like to think this is why the internet was invented.
  (tags: trampoline dog )
• Why British police don’t have guns
  (tags: guns uk police )
• The Top 10 Relationship Words That Aren't Translatable Into English
  (tags: language relationships )
• 11 Images of Nature

Comments

[spacelem]

Nevermind, I misread the link, and you had already linked to a zoomable version. Okay, that's cool.

[apostle_of_eris]

Over here (U.S.) "liberal" disambiguates by specifying the century. We have a lot of blood-sucking seventeenth and eighteenth century "liberals" flaunting the label like a halo.

[ipslore]

Why translate when you can steal?

[andrewducker]

Good point! If we have a massive use for those words, we'll just adopt them!

[skreidle]

I don't understand why people create multi-animated-gif versions of videos when the original video is only perfectly serviceable, but much better:

[andrewducker]

I think some sites make embedding of images easy, and embedding of videos really hard.

But yes, that's awesome.

[skreidle]

True, there is that -- and I'm sure there's limits on the number of frames in anigifs, hence the need of multiple to recreate one full scene.

... but it ends up feeling like a mishmash of segments that fail to recreate much very well. :)