Monday gifts -- 03/29/2010

For almost exactly two years I've been sending weekly gifts to a good and unusual friend, a collection of links I choose for the recipient's amusement. They are carefully chosen to appeal to that person's tastes, and those tastes are quite unique. I will not say who this person is, but you may find it interesting to try to build a mental picture of him or her, based solely on the links I send.

I've decided to share these links with you, the fearless reader. Enjoy!

WARNING! Some or all of these links may be NSFW, some *incredibly* so. Open at your peril.

More Photoshop CS Content-Aware Sneak Peak Awesomeness
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3ScWu7pG7r0

Computer Assisted Design
http://vimeo.com/9163295

DIY Turing Machine
http://gizmodo.com/5503234/a-diy-turing-machine

Motherbrain
http://cache.gawkerassets.com/assets/images/4/2010/03/500x_motherbrain.jpg

Play
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aIZVCCJxIQ4

Found Film Clips from the 60s and 70s
http://www.flickr.com/photos/neatocoolville/sets/72157623369717673/

Voynich under the microscope
http://www.forteantimes.com/features/articles/3145/voynich_under_the_microscope.html

AP2000
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gbJDiyHuBmw

Good Show Sir -- Dreadful SF book covers
http://www.goodshowsir.co.uk/

Pierre Molinier's art
http://www.all-art.org/art_20th_century/molinier1.html

*Painfully* cute
http://crig.deviantart.com/art/Meow-158531137

Hybrid - Break My Soul
http://www.digitalcinemafoundry.com/2010/03/24/hybrid-break-my-soul-music-video/

The 10 greatest modern recreations of ancient tech
http://io9.com/5502066/the-ten-greatest-modern+day-recreations-of-ancient-technologies

The Secret World gameplay footage -- part WoW, part Cthulhu, part Left4Dead, it seems
http://www.gametrailers.com/video/gdc-10-the-secret/63666?type=flv

Paramotor swoopdown
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R9V7GEOUGhk

A pretty mermaid painting
http://www.warmphotos.net/img/cool/beautiful-mermaids-from-many-artist/beautiful-mermaids-from-many-artist02.jpg

from
http://www.warmphotos.net/beautiful-mermaids

Saul Bass-styled retro Tron titles
http://www.wired.com/underwire/2010/03/retro-tron-intro-saul-bass/

Broken by Trifonic -- an instant Dangerous track -- ignore the visuals
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=88yLWB-Q2bE

Their Growing Distance is also nice
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q_QkkPvuzVE

Inside a 4-stroke engine
http://io9.com/5500701/watch-the-explosion-that-never-stops-inside-your-engine

RPG heroes are jerks
http://www.collegehumor.com/video:1930495

Art by Charles Immer
http://www.charlieimmer.com/index.html

Nature By Numbers
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kkGeOWYOFoA

Program or be programmed
http://rushkoff.com/2010/03/25/program-or-be-programmed/

Eric Whitacre's Virtual Choir -- it makes me cry. It's the Internet all in one package.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D7o7BrlbaDs

Conducting video for the above
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uh1c2xWVWiA

Cary Grant's love of LSD
http://blog.wfmu.org/freeform/2010/03/his-girl-lsd-the-cary-grant-experience.html

Table of odd British Pronunciations
http://slb-ltsu.hull.ac.uk/awe/index.php?title=Odd_pronunciations_of_proper_names_-_examples

Spy Party
http://kotaku.com/5500968/the-next-smart-video-game-only-lets-you-kill-once

B-Radical harmonicas
http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/local/ct-news-harmonica-factory-20100321,0,309365.story

A fascinating history of the 6-second Amen Break
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5SaFTm2bcac

...
http://ugliesttattoos.com/2010/03/18/funny-tattoos-unicorn-vs-robot-dolphin/
and
http://ugliesttattoos.com/2010/03/17/funny-tattoos-of-course-i-suppose-he-could-have-both/
and
http://ugliesttattoos.com/2010/03/13/pussy-hound/

Fine Structure
http://qntm.org/structure