Monday gifts -- 04/12/2010

Photographer meets kakapo
http://www.poetv.com/video.php?vid=67753

Oh, isn't this interesting? Funny, how his plane went down the very next day.
http://blogs.wsj.com/new-europe/2010/04/09/polish-central-bank-pulls-trigger-to-weaken-zloty/

So you *do* have a sense of humor
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hg6QrSVJUyk

Destroyer of Worlds
http://hawtness.com/2010/04/09/wtf-girl-photos-destroyer-of-worlds/

That...would...be...fine
http://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2010/4/9/

Aesthetics of early computer graphics
http://translab.burundi.sk/code/vzx/index.htm

Devo Song Study -- Help pick 12 out of 18 songs for their next album
http://songstudy.clubdevo.com/

The Cat With Hands (Creepy!)
http://vimeo.com/2689070

What to do in case of first alien contact
http://cache.gawkerassets.com/assets/images/8/2010/04/first-contact-alien.png

Cracked, on how to write a Nicholas Sparks novel
http://www.cracked.com/funny-4725-nicholas-sparks/

Monster Engine brings children's drawings to life (thanks to inkgorilla for this link.)
http://thechive.com/2010/04/06/moster-engine-brings-childrens-drawings-to-life-11-photos/

More:
http://themonsterengine.com/

Kowloon Walled City
http://io9.com/5512888/the-walled-city-where-sunlight-couldnt-reach

Of course I had to find some other photographs:
http://artkhammarita.files.wordpress.com/2007/05/wolf2.jpg
http://artkhammarita.files.wordpress.com/2007/05/kowloonwalledcityalley2.jpg
http://kwout.com/cutout/n/na/mu/kni.jpg
http://images.coilhouse.net/wp-content/uploads/2008/08/factory.png

Pixels
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pFpcTGJwvZ0

Prometheus backlit by Saturn
http://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap100405.html

Small Worlds
http://www.rathergood.com/small_worlds

A Jules Verne inspired steampunk SL sim
http://www.boingboing.net/2010/04/07/underwater-jules-ver.html

Hell
http://xkcd.com/724/

And the Flash implementation of Hell
http://www.swfme.com/view/1046212