Daily Almanac

[OBollocks]

It's amazing. 16% of the time they get a kill, they don't work together; most of the time they give it a little run and then go "Fuck it, rather have a lay down. Someone else can get it. Let me know when it's dinner time."

http://qt.exploratorium.edu/mars/opport ... PG?sol4332 - Dust devil on Mars.

http://www.afar.com/magazine/the-incred ... d-in-tokyo - Rent-a-friend.

http://www.lifehacker.com.au/2015/11/th ... ch-draper/ - Captain Crunch, phone phreaker.

http://www.lightspeedmagazine.com/ficti ... ks-before/ - Bucket List Found in the Locker of Maddie Price, Age 14, Written Two Weeks Before the Great Uplifting of All Mankind, by Erica Satifka.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sch%C3%B6ningen_Spears - 300,000 year old spears.

http://phys.org/news/2016-03-language-cells.html - a programming language for cells.

https://paxsims.wordpress.com/2016/04/0 ... r-college/ - wargaming workshop for war.

https://www.theguardian.com/science/201 ... dy-reveals - Neolithic deer shipping.

http://www.kirstenzirngibl.com/ - Lovely art, some of which will be used in an upcoming Netrunner expansion.

http://www.leagueofgamemakers.com/rethi ... hic-design - Changing graphic design in games.

http://phys.org/news/2010-12-scientists ... ental.html - Chronesthesia.

http://polygraph.cool/films/ - Screenplays analysed by gender and age.

http://www.sciencemag.org/news/2016/04/ ... here-s-why - Neanderthal males and h. sapien females had trouble reproducing.

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https://youtu.be/TB_XIUFHfJI - Eurogamer's best Late to the Party episode, featuring Heavy Rain.

http://www.newyorker.com/culture/photo- ... -and-crime - Photography and crime.

https://youtu.be/CNM8esRbGRM - The Rubberbandits' guide to the 1916 Easter Rising.

http://www.keckobservatory.org/recent/e ... leration_m - A hypervelocity binary star.

http://www.projectrho.com/public_html/r ... ser_Pistol - Laser pistol. Pew pew.

https://youtu.be/o0u4M6vppCI?list=RDiYgPznBrjiA = Shia LaBeouf, the musical.

http://armamentresearch.com/russian-mib ... -in-syria/ - Grenade mine.

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https://vimeo.com/162655850 - The Battle of Jutland.

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27095773 - I have some pens I don't need any more.

http://www.theatlantic.com/science/arch ... ty/479559/ - the illusion of reality.

http://blackbag.gawker.com/alex-jones-b ... 1772977685 - Beyonce's CIA-backed race war.

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https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/won ... the-world/ -

[rinelk]

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/won ... the-world/ -

Huh--I've been looking for a population density map.

[OBollocks]

https://www.brainpickings.org/2016/01/2 ... bout-time/ - Remembering forwards in time.

http://www.theatlantic.com/health/archi ... ns/264095/ - I always wanted to ask how they got down.

http://blogs.nasa.gov/pluto/2016/05/03/ ... th-geoviz/ - Aiming at Pluto.

http://qz.com/296941/interactive-graphi ... ing-earth/ - Every satellite in orbit.

http://cimsec.org/wargaming-distributed-lethality/24857 - Enhanced threat/distributed lethality at sea.

http://www.pagef30.com/2016/05/494-imag ... world.html - hundreds of photos of pre-WWI Germany.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/North_Ame ... in_Mustang - Just whack two planes together, bosh.

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https://theperimeter.uk/ - the entire coastline of Britain (eventually).

https://www.1843magazine.com/ideas/the- ... ing-matter - German humour.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bqUX0tE ... e=youtu.be - Nothing like a good numbers station.

http://birthmoviesdeath.com/2016/05/12/ ... -language1 - A great essay on cinematic language from Film Crit HULK.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f8aU4MY ... e=youtu.be - Claycat's Doom.

http://www.bbc.com/future/story/2016041 ... ocid=twfut - spiders take a long time to die.

https://chalkinrain.itch.io/spokesworm - How good are you at being a suited parasite?

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http://www.counterpunch.org/2015/06/29/ ... in-system/ - The life and times of the US Army's human terrain system.

[Private Prinny]

https://www.1843magazine.com/ideas/the- ... ing-matter - German humour.

That lady in the Zoo.....well maybe it has to be a generation thing but she may not be that representative at all.
That being said....we in South Germany have a different kind of humour so maybe this is to be expected

[OBollocks]

The only Germans I know well have been living in the UK for years, and they certainly have a sense of humour. Perhaps it's something they were issued upon entry, but I don't think so.

http://www.pnas.org/content/113/20/5536.full - A study of the importance of phone metadata.

http://blogs.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/archives ... lacksmith/ - Lady blacksmith, 18th century.

https://www.technologyreview.com/s/6012 ... -thruster/ - "At very small accelerations, the wavelengths become so large they can no longer fit in the observable universe. When this happens, inertia can take only certain whole-wavelength values and so jumps from one value to the next."

http://imgur.com/a/kIrZa - "Drown proofing should be practiced but never alone." The best laugh I've had all day.

http://www.demilked.com/old-photos-japa ... ld-genthe/ - Japan in 1908.

http://m.nzherald.co.nz/world/news/arti ... NZH_FBpage - Drone footage of shark feeding.