Link roundup

1. "Entire generations of crabs, worms and other deep-sea animals can survive for years on a single whale carcass."

2. A Song of Fire and Ice fan art.

3. Lisa Hanawalt illustrates popping a pimple, under ideal conditions.

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Link roundup

1. Super Scribblenauts desktop wallpaper.

2. Algae has turned the ocean green off Southern California.

3. "Rabid vampire bats have attacked more than 500 people in Peru's Amazon, leading to the deaths of four children." Via.

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Styrofoam cup crushed by deep sea pressure

Styrofoam cup that was subjected to pressure of 10,400 feet of water in Antarctica.

Surfrider Foundation's Rise Above Plastics

A whale swims through a sea of garbage in this animated commercial by BPN for the Surfrider Foundation's Rise Above Plastics campaign.

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Video roundup

Marvel vs. Capcom 3 trailer.



Trailer for Child of Eden (fight pulsating laser jellyfish while listening to techno).



Dead Space 2 trailer.



Video shows several key plays from Game 7 of the Lakers/Celtics series. (Why is ESPN nothing more than a bunch of high-paid shouters with access opining about whether Kobe is a top 20 or top 10 all-time player?)

Guillaume Nery base jumping at Dean's Blue Hole @ Yahoo! Video

Watch freediver Guillaume Nery plunge into the abyss.



Classic Star Trek clips set to Kesha's Tik Tok. Via all these fine sites.

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Video roundup

Tremendously boring video featuring Neal Stephenson and Greg Bear discussing The Mongoliad.



Cool commercial by Wieden + Kennedy for the Honda CR-Z.




Lebron James degrading a ballboy.



Scott Pilgrim videogame trailer.

Lost Wars: Because Adding Jedis Can Fix Anything -- powered by Cracked.com

Lost finale/Star Wars mashup.




Disturbing video shows how a starfish rights itself when turned upside down. Via these fine sites.

Vintage ad for corsets (link roundup)

Vintage ad for corsets spotted here. And also available as a paperweight.

And a few more links:

1. Printable figures for a survival horror game.

2. Comic does a nice job of explaining why nuclear weapons are a good thing. Via.

3. Ted Talk: Edith Widder: Glowing life in an underwater world.

*Previously: Downloadable wargame.

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Cthulhu Idol (link roundup)

Cthulhu statue by Tommy Poirier-Morissette. Via.

And a few more links:

1. Freakishly giant waves in the open sea have finally been documented. Via.

2. Will Leitch is writing profiles of each major league baseball team. Here's the start of his profile of the Padres:

Adrian Gonzalez was born to be a San Diego Padre. He was actually born in San Diego, went to high school in Chula Vista and has a rabid fanbase as the best Mexican baseball player alive. He loves it there. And why wouldn't he? San Diego is beautiful. Oh, and he's a fantastic hitter: The guy hit 40 homers in one of the most difficult hitting parks in the game and, somehow, led the major leagues in walks, though this is easier to do when the man hitting behind you is Kevin Kouzmanoff. The man is a stud and three quarters.

And unless you're on the Spanish language Padres site, you'll barely find him anywhere among Padres promotional materials. He should be the main — the only, really — selling point for the Padres. He is the perfect Padre; the only thing he's missing is the last name "Gwynn." But Adrian Gonzalez is not on the promotional package because Adrian Gonzalez is going to be traded.

3. Isolated house and blimp by Andy Helms.

*Previously: Papercraft fertility idol.

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A toddler practices Shakespeare (video roundup)

Brian Cox teaches a toddler Hamlet's to be or not to be speech. Via.



Time-lapse of an office building being built out of shipping containers. Via.




Timelapse video of sea stars and worms swarming the ocean floor to devour a dead seal. Via.




Watch repair in microgravity.



Butterflies in zero gravity.

*Previously: Shakespeare hates your emo poems.

*Buy NASA patches at eBay.

King Kong Company t-shirt (link roundup)

The latest t-shirt on sale at Last Exit to Nowhere features the King Kong Company patch Travis Bickle wears on his jacket in Taxi Driver.

And a few more links:

1. Absolutely ghastly video and information about the egg industry and what's done to unwanted male chicks (seriously, the description is bad enough, I didn't watch the video).

2. There are salt lobbyists and balloon lobbyists. You can learn about legislation affecting balloons at The Balloon Council. Via.

3. Writing for the NY Times, William Broad describes efforts to find the world's oldest living fossil:

Dr. Rona has found that P. nodosum thrives in restricted areas of Atlantic seabed. Its only visible feature consists of tiny holes arranged in six-sided patterns that look curiously like the hearts of Chinese checkers boards. He has photographed thousands of the hexagons and found that large ones have 200 or 300 holes.

Via.

*Previously: King Kong vs. a giant shark and a giant snake.

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There's something in the sea

Wow, go check out Chris Anthony's "Venice" series of images. Something tells me I'm going to have a bad dream about the ocean tonight.

*Previously: Octopus-infested diving suit.

*Buy diving helmets at eBay.

Plush cyclops and deep sea diver

Plush cyclops and fish in a diving suit on sale in Trish Tatman's Etsy shop. It's apparently not what she had in mind, but the diver sure looks like a character from China Mieville's wonderful book Un Lun Dun.

*Previously: Deep sea diver paper toy.

*Buy deep sea diver toys at eBay.

Deep Sea Dresser

Deep Sea Dresser by Alicia Cornwell and Tony Bevilacqua of Chroma Lab on sale at Etsy. Via.

*Previously: Carrot dresser.

*Buy deep sea diver toys at eBay.

Beautifully packaged used condoms

Surfrider Foundation plus Saatchi & Saatchi equals beautifully packaged garbage. The items were displayed at various farmers markets. Via these sites.

*Previously: Durex is looking for an expert condom tester.

*Buy condoms at Amazon.

Key by Raquel Aparicio

Key by Raquel Aparicio. She has various prints on sale here, including this beautiful seascape:



Via.

*Previously: Ocean-themed paintings by Scott Campbell.

*Buy vintage keys at eBay.

Photo of divers (and shark) taken just at the right time

Photo of shark and divers via these sites. (As the commenters point out, it's Photoshopped, but still funny.)

*Previously: Great advertisements featuring sharks.

*Buy the book "Ocean (American Museum of Natural History)" at Amazon.

Lego: Hammerhead shark cruising over a coral reef

This beautiful Lego diorama of a coral reef is by Shannon Sproule. Via.

*Previously: Lego Warhound Titan.

*Find great deals on Lego at eBay.

Has time travel already happened?

1. Is time travel the explanation for the cancellation of the Super Conductor Super Collider:

Why the LHC? The authors argue that these sorts of time-violating interactions could be associated with whatever new particles we create at the LHC. For example, the production of a large number of Higgs particles in the future could have a backwards-in-time causal effect on the machine that produced them, stopping the machine from ever running. As possible "evidence" for such a backwards-in-time effect, the authors cite the now-canceled Superconducting Super Collider (SSC)--a particle accelerator that was meant to hunt the Higgs and was partially constructed in Texas before Congress pulled the plug on the project. As the authors write in their paper: "Such a cancellation after a huge investment is already in itself an unusual event that should not happen too often. We might take this event as experimental evidence for our model in which an accelerator with the luminosity and beam energy of the SSC will not be built."

It's as though the Higgs plays the role of the time traveler who goes back to the past and murders his grandfather, thus preventing his own birth.

Read more. (Photo link.)


2. Scientists have found water deep in the Atlantic Ocean that's 407 degrees Celsius, 765 degrees Fahrenheit. It's called "supercritical water." Wasn't there a G.I. Joe episode about this?


3. Looking for a book? Why not go to a booktown.



*Find more weird news here.

*The Best Time Travel Stories of the 20th Century is 32% off at Amazon.

20,000 Kittens Under The Sea

I created a desktop wallpaper out of the 20,000 Kittens Under The Sea t-shirt design by "Seans" that's currently being voted on at Design By Humans.

*Find more desktop wallpapers here.

*Buy books about great t-shirts at Amazon.

Ween concert poster by Todd Slater

Here's Todd Slater's official site. Via.

*You can see previously posted concert posters here.

*Find concert posters at AllPosters.com.